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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wanted to share this one song from today's listening party, that I'd not heard in a while and as always made me tear up when I heard it. It's about the passing of our dear sweet little cat Teddy on 1/30/2008. Love you & miss you, my sweet little boy. ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/track/the-fo...

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The Forever Sleep (Teddy's Song), by Har

from the album Obscura

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Music video for the title track to my 2010 #ambient guitar/bass/Chapman Stick album "Obscura" (that I'm revisiting on October 3rd with the aforementioned #Bandcamp Listening Party) , featuring a time-lapse video I shot of sunset on #Chincoteague Island, Virginia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i__r...

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Har - "Obscura" (Chincoteague Island Sunset 2014)

YouTube video by Har GTR

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Join me on Saturday, October 3rd at 2:30 PM US EDT for a free Bandcamp Listening Party as we revisit my second Har solo release: the more mysterious 2010 ambient guitar/bass/Chapman Stick album "Obscura"- a voyage into a world forever frozen in twilight. ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/merch/listen...

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Listening Party: Revisiting "Obscura" from Har

Listening Party from Har.

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today #Bandcamp's Discover page for "Dark Ambient Guitar" seems to suddenly feature ton of my albums....including the ones that aren't the slightest bit ambient. But hey, I'll take it. 😁 bandcamp.com/discover/dar...

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Client Challenge

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Going back in time & listening to this one all the way through for the first time in a while, as I prepare for its BC Listening Party tomorrow afternoon. Almost 20 years later, I guess it stands the test of time since people still seem to like it... 🙂 ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/album/dream-...

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Dream Tower Blueprints, by Har

6 track album

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Join me on Saturday, August 29th at 2:30 PM US EDT for a free Bandcamp Listening Party as we revisit my first Har solo release, by popular demand: the 2007 ambient guitar/Chapman Stick album "Dream Tower Blueprints"! RVSP at: ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/merch/listen...

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Listening Party: Revisiting "Dream Tower Blueprints" from Har

Listening Party from Har.

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm considering more listening parties on Bandcamp for some of my earlier releases, like with the one I held last year for the Failover "Circularity" album release: maybe explain some of the stories behind the various tracks in the chat, etc. Interested? Which albums? ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com

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Har

Har is an American solo atmospheric/prog/alt-rock artist (as Har and Failover), as well as guitarist/bassist/Chapman Stickist for the electronic/prog band Christus and The Cosmonaughts (with Scot Soli...

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This week "Impact Scars (Landing Scars Ambient Remix)" - the atmospheric instrumental remix/re-arrangement of the title track to my Failover debut EP "Landing Scars" is Name Your Own Price (yes, that does include zero/free) to download. ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/track/impact... Enjoy! :)

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Impact Scars (Landing Scars Ambient Remix), by Failover

track by Failover

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

One from the old long-form ambient guitar soundscaping days: a live solo performance set in one take on 8-string guitar & an arsenal of rack effects, broadcast back in 2012. Enjoy. 🙂 ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/album/into-t... #ambientguitar #8stringguitar #soundscaping #liveambientmusic

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Into The Maelström, Vol. 2: Down The Corridor. LIVE: July 22, 2012, by Har

1 track album

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Signs of a bullshit AI-generated "encyclopedic" post: 1) Longwinded overly dramatic story set-up. 2) About 3/4 of the way down, something like: "But think about that for a minute...." 3) Reiterate EVERY FUCKING THING AGAIN already stated in step 1, but in more compact form. 4) Sappy, flowery ending.

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Friday 4/24 @ 9PM EDT, FRIDAY NIGHT PROGRESSIVE will be playing music from my 2020 Failover debut EP "Landing Scars"! I'll be hanging out in the show's chatroom as well so stop by, say hello, and listen in! 😃 96.245.253.95:88/broadwave.mp3 fridaynightprogressive.com/chat/ #ProgRock #AtmosphericRock

This Friday 4/24 at 9PM EDT, FRIDAY NIGHT PROGRESSIVE will be playing music from the 2020 Failover debut EP "Landing Scars"! I'll also be hanging out in the show's chatroom as well, so stop by, say hello, and listen in! 😃

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https://fridaynightprogressive.com/chat/

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A little ditty about the time I was in the ICU for 9 days after losing half my blood due to internal bleeding, that they couldn't find the source of. ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/track/nine-d...

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Nine Days, by Failover

from the album Circularity

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Part 2 of "The Oxford Circle Trilogy" was the title track to my latest #Failover album, "Circularity". Part 1 was "North of The Circle" from my 2020 debut EP "Landing Scars". What is Oxford Circle? You Either Get It or You Don't.™ 😁 ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/track/north-...

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North of The Circle, by Failover

from the album Landing Scars

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hi everyone! If you got and liked my new Failover album "Circularity" on Bandcamp, please do consider going to your Collection in Bandcamp, select the album, and then leave a quick review there and mention what your favorite track is! Thanks as always for supporting independent music! 😀

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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

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Failover - Crush Depth (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Har GTR

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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

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Har is an American solo atmospheric//prog/alt-rock artist (as Har and Failover), as well as guitarist/bassist/Chapman Stickist for the electronic/prog band Christus and The Cosmonaughts (with Scot Sol...

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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...

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Episode 472

What’s in this episode? Oh, lots of new stuff, along with some remasters and re-imaginings, a single with a story, an album with a story, and…can you hit a curveball? ‘Cuz I&#8217…

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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! 🙂

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Har is an American solo atmospheric/heavy-shoegaze/metalgaze/prog artist (as Har and Failover), as well as guitarist/bassist/Chapman Stickist for the electronic/prog band Christus and The Cosmonaughts...

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

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

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See the releases of Failover on TIDAL

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

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...

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Evolve or Die, by Failover

from the album Circularity

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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

Screenshot of review by Rusty Hodge from SomaFM of my new Failover album, "Circularity": "Great production meets moving song writing. The lyrics of Circularity II were really grabbing. Listen to this loudly in a big room with big speakers. Favorite track: Crush Depth."

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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!

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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...

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Circularity, by Failover

11 track album

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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. 😁

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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)

Photo of Placid Audio Copperphone AV20 mic.

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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.

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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.

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

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." 😁

Agile Les Paul copy guitar, with blue-purple burl finish. Sitting in a gold colored case.

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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

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Har - Sunset 2063 (Official Lyric Video)

"Sunset 2063 (Official Lyric Video)" is the first official music video from "2063, Part I: Wish", the first "episode" for the new solo…

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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:...".

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

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. 😁

Izotope RX screen showing Spectral De-noise processing a bass track.

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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.

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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...?

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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. 😀

Virtual bass recording rig using an Eden amp plugin and a clone plugin of the SansAmp BDDI.

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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?"🤣

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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. 😬

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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??" 🤣🤣

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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

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Har @ambientguitarist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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.😆

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