Tomorrow is once again #BandcampFriday, when Bandcamp waives their revenue share from all music sales & passes the funds directly to independent artists such as myself. So a great time to pick up the new album or any of my releases available on Bandcamp. Thanks!! 🙂 ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you: the new official lyric visualizer music video for "Crush Depth" from the new Failover album. Enjoy. :) youtu.be/HxkGr1nXekw #MusicVideos #NewMusic #PostProgRock #AtmosphericRock #DavinciResolve

New Failover music video for one of the "Circularity" album tracks drops later this week. Watch this space!

A quick reminder: you can still use discount code adios2025 for 25% off any of my releases on Bandcamp (including my Full Digital Discography) through January 2nd, 2026. Wishing you a happy, healthy & safe New Year, & thanks as always for supporting #IndependentMusic! ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com

My deepest thanks once again to the ever-awesome John Shanahan for including "Dull Knife" from my album on the new Episode 472 of his Hypnagogue Podcast, for his VERY kind & enthusiastic words about the album...and for pronouncing "Har" properly as well! 👍👍 hypnagoguepodcast.com/2025/12/04/e...

The final #BandcampFriday of 2025 is THIS Friday - a great time to pick up my latest Failover album "Circularity" or any of my other releases (we get 100%)! Use discount code adios2025 for 25% off between now & January 2nd, 2026 too. music.ambientguitarist.com?campaign=bcf... Thanks as always! 🙂

My new album "Circularity" (along with all of my other Failover releases) is now available to stream on Tidal! Follow me there and add to your playlists at: tidal.com/artist/20470... #FuckOffSpotify

About "Evolve or Die" from my new Failover album: the ONLY actual guitar on the song is the solo in the middle! Aside from vocals and drums, everything else including the heavy riffing and clean, shimmering parts were played on 5-string & 8-string bass. ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/track/evolve...

Huge thanks to Rusty Hodge at the awesome @somafm.com for his review of my new Failover album "Circularity"!! 😀 #newmusic #progrock #atmosphericrock #heavyprogMy h

My album "Circularity" (and my other Failover releases) is now available on most online music retailers & streaming platforms (except Spotify, for reasons I explained earlier) for you to stream or (cough) purchase...links in the comments. Thanks again as always for supporting independent music!

I'm excited to announce the release of "Circularity" - the first full-length eleven song album from my solo heavy progressive rock/atmospheric rock project, Failover. Available now at Bandcamp, and soon on most other music retail and streaming platforms. ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/album/circul...

Hey everyone: Halloween is coming...and so is the new Failover album, finally arriving October 31st, 2025. 😃 Eleven new songs. Over four years in the making. Songs about life. Songs about death and near-death. And songs about deep water. The countdown starts now...see you on Halloween. 😁

As I continue to put the finishing touches on the new album (yeah, I know it's now weeks late), it becomes more and more obvious that it will need to be released with a warning label stating: "Clearly written and mixed by a bass player." 😁 #NewMusic

5 songs into the new album mastering & I realized I totally forgot to record a vocal part I wanted to do months ago. D'oh. Out comes the #Copperphone! I just plugged it straight into the RME's preamp instead of my usual vox rig & plunked it on my desk. Git 'er done. (yeah, my desk is a mess)

Dear Instagram: it doesn't matter how many times you keep shoving sped-up videos of people sanding wood or joining pipes together into my feed and calling it "so satisfying", I still won't give a flying fuck.

ALBUM UPDATE: The new Failover album mix is officially DONE. 😃 Eleven new songs. Over three years in the making. Time to start mastering. Hoping to release it by the first week of September. #NewMusic #AtmosphericRock #HeavyProgressiveRock #HardRock

R.I.P. Ozzy Osbourne. :(

Doing some RX hiss removal on a Chapman Stick bass track for the new Failover album. Interesting how you can clearly see the regular rotating timbral sweeps of the phase shifter.

Bought myself a late burfday present...it's New Guitar Day! 😃 Say hello to LPA! As in: "It's not a Les Paul, it's a Les Paul Adjacent." 😁

My thanks once again to John Shanahan for including my track "Impact Scars (Landing Scars Ambient Remix)" by Failover in the latest Episode 444 of @hypnagoguepodcast.bsky.social !! 😃 hypnagoguepodcast.com/2025/05/08/e...

Not a bad little song from before I had upped my mixing game, but it turned out OK enough, I guess. 🙂 From my ill-fated "2063" concept albums project about a time travel experiment gone wrong. Nobody seemed interested, so I gave it up. Perhaps I'll revisit it again someday... vimeo.com/139131009

POV: you're sitting here, really sick and tired of seeing a bunch of Reels, Stories and memes in your feed with a title that starts with "POV:...".

I don't care what anyone says about analog hiss adding "mojo" or any other vague intangible...I'm getting rid of that shit from my bass tracks, dammit. 😁

Dream last night: I was getting ready to sit in on guitar with a band I didn't know, playing a song I've never played guitar on (Tom Petty's "I Need To Know", which I've only played live on bass) & replacing a guy who also showed up to play & was clearly pissed off about what was happening. Weird.

Question: does anyone actually download albums they get online, & if so-do they read any inserts (say, in PDF format w/lyrics, etc) that might be included? I've always put the effort into them; kind of a throwback to the old days of album gatefolds, I guess. Worth it? Or am I just jerking off...?

Interesting technical ironies: my live bass rig centers around my Eden amp that I've had for a very long time, with a SansAmp BDDI hitting the front of it. And now I'm basically (ha! Geddit?) using a virtual version of that for some of my recorded bass tracks. 😀

One of the things I've learned the hard way about mixing is: after a certain point in the evening, I can no longer trust either my ears or my brain to be accurate & use rational thought processes anymore, so I must walk away & call it a night. Otherwise: wake up to "what the fuck was I thinking?"🤣

Whilst mixing during my week off, trying to make sure I enforce my self-imposed "stop & give your ears a break at least every 30 minutes" rule, to try to keep ear fatigue in check. There's nothing like losing all your top end, overcompensating, and the next day listening to a tin can full of bees. 😬

Happy Rush Day!! 😁 #YouEitherGetItOrYouDoNot

Now on vacation until 2025! Time to relax? No way: I've got an album to finish mixing. 😁 #Goals

Yeah, I know I haven't posted anything in a while. Been a bit occupied lately doing stuff, as well as things.

As a lifelong fan of The Moody Blues, it's amazing that only this morning I discovered that the line in "Tuesday Afternoon" actually ISN'T "So gently swaying to the ferret and the dove". Which is somewhat of a relief, as I'd also spent my life thinking "what the fuck is THAT supposed to mean??" 🤣🤣

....annnnnnd I'm out. X ain't gon' give it to ya. 🤣

Second car-listening test on the way to work today of the first song for the new album. Last week was the first test & I came away with a laundry-list of "oh shit" things that needed to be tweaked & fixed. But today: much better. 👍 Just gotta tear off the Bandaid, grit my teeth & turn my vocals UP.😆

"Hello, my name is Har and I used to just be a buss compression addict. But now I'm a channel strip junkie too." "Welcome, Har...." 🤣

After several years in the making, at last I'm mixing the new album. 2024 has been a rollercoaster, filled with both heartbreak & triumph - which gets in the way of creative output, including music. Let's see what we can do now to get back on track. 🙂 #NewMusic #AtmosphericRock #ProgRock #MetalGaze

Oh, hi there! Hey, let's try out THIS platform now, shall we...? 😁