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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

Interested in instrumental, experimental musical storytelling? My new album Pumping Smoke Into Glass is out now! brkphs.bandcamp.com/album/pumpin... #MusicSky #instrumental #experimental #ambient #music #Bandcamp

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Pumping Smoke Into Glass, by brk.phs

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

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Pumping Smoke Into Glass, by brk.phs

10 track album

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Pumping Smoke Into Glass is available for streaming and purchase now, exclusively on Bandcamp! I'm so excited to finally be able to share it in it's entirety with everyone! brkphs.bandcamp.com/album/pumpin...

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Pumping Smoke Into Glass, by brk.phs

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Waves was written to be the denouement of the story, letting the dramatic conclusion of On The Shores Of The Moon settle and tie the narrative up nice and neatly. Waves and Ripples ended up being written concurrently because I wanted a main theme to bookend the story.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

On The Shores Of The Moon was actually written as a form experiment to try and tap back into my rock playing roots, but as it progressed it started to take on this intense quality that I knew would make for an excellent finale for this albums narrative.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Discovering Nowhere was the first song for the album I'd made in SoundBridge, largely because I still envisioned the album being in distinct halves between semi-organic ambient works and darker, more mechanical ambient sounds.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Was busy the last few days and neglected to make the behind the scenes posts for the rest of the songs

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Nevada Sunrise is the other song inspired by walks with my dog, we had woken up early to go record the sunrise after a New Moon and when I got home I sat down and made a simple piano and violin arrangement that would become Nevada Sunrise.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

So Far Away started as an idle melody I was playing on a cheap acoustic guitar. At this stage in the writing I wasn't planning on using any instruments or composing traditionally, but after working with the melody a bit I decided to record it.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Movement Without Direction was the first song I wrote in Nevada and the last one I wrote in Audacity. It's largely inspired by watching my dog run around all over the place which is why she's sampled heavily throughout the song.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Vitrified By The Sun was one of the first songs I composed in SoundBridge instead of Audacity, it utilizes the most layers and effects, and is also the longest song on the project. When I originally decided to incorporate traditionally composed works, I wanted to have the album split in half.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Adrift In Misery was the second song I wrote for this project, and the one I think has the absolute clearest message of all of them, mostly because it has the least processing done to the original sounds so it's still very clear what they are and what they're conveying.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Ripples was actually the final song I wrote, and I knew I wanted it to function like an overture, in tandem with yet in contrast to Delving. Where Delving used odd and harsh sounds to pull the listener down, I wanted Ripples to have more soothing sounds.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Delving Into The Uncomfortably Familiar was the first song I wrote for this project and definitely the one I did the most experimenting with, I was aiming for a very specific vibe and narrative with the sounds and it came out precisely how I wanted it to.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

It's time to reveal the song list for Pumping Smoke Into Glass! Over this next week I'll be talking a little bit about some of them as I get ready to start releasing the first singles! Follow me at brkphs.bandcamp.com to get notified when the songs and album are live!

A gradient of blue, red, brown, yellow, and green watercolor paint. At the top is the album title, Pumping Smoke Into Glass, and below it is the songs listed
1. Delving Into The Uncomfortably Familiar
2. Ripples
3. Adrift In Misery
4. Vitrified By The Sun
5. Movement Without Direction
6. So Far Away
7. Nevada Sunrise
8. Discovering Nowhere
9. On The Shores Of The Moon
10. Waves
In the bottom right corner is brkphs.bandcamp.com

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

After moving to Nevada I wanted to pivot direction musically and start weaving more traditionally composed works into the record, which became it's own challenge as I didn't have much experience working with piano or violin and couldn't just rely on "the vibes" to guide the course of a song.

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

The first songs I wrote for Pumping Smoke Into Glass I wanted to try a technique that was radically different than how I'd written music in the past, so I recorded sounds with my body and furniture and contorted them in Audacity which left them with a strange sort of fragmented quality.

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Brock @brashbadger.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

I’ve been lucky and gotten to listen a bit early and it is beautiful. Mark your calendars!

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Nari @lunarih.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Really excited and proud of this, going to divert most my talking about music production over to the artist account from here on out so make sure to follow @brkphs.bsky.social if you want to be in on the updates and behind the scenes stuff

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brk.phs - New Album Out Now @brkphs.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Excited to announce the release date and reveal the cover artwork for Pumping Smoke Into Glass. July 26th. Over the next couple weeks I'll be posting the track list, a teaser, and provide some behind the scenes info about the production of it.

Watercolor painting of an abstract landscape, blue and red skies over a brown mountain range casting a shadow across yellow desert ending in a deep green wetland. Clouds, rain, and a river cutting across it bleeding from the sky to the land. In the top right is the album title, Pumping Smoke Into Glass, and in the bottom left is the artist name, brk.phs (pronounced Break Phase)

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