Har performing a live solo long-form ambient 8-string guitar improv set, on the weekly show Nightscaping on Stillstream.com, August 14th, 2011.

This is just processed/looped guitar played in real-time with no synths, MIDI pickups etc used, resulting in a darkly serene and occasionally tense atmosphere resolving into a peaceful yet mysterious conclusion.

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Har LIVE: Into The Maelström, August 14, 2011

"Sunset 2063" is a track from "2063, Part I: Wish", the first "episode" for the new solo multi-part musical concept album "series" by Har.

The first 5 track EP/ "episode", "Part I: Wish", was released in September 2015 and is now available at ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/album/2063-part-i-wish

An atmospheric/progressive hard-rock concept release, 
"2063" is the story of Wells, a project engineer trying to deal with his own mortality issues. When he takes advantage of an unexpected opportunity to confront them head-on, the results threaten not only his sanity but the very fabric of time itself.

Har: lead and harmony vocals, 6-, 8- and 12-string guitars, 6- and 8-string basses, piano, percussion programming, sound design and field recordings.

Music, lyrics, text, sounds & imagery: © 2015 Har. All rights reserved.

If you enjoyed this, please consider purchasing "2063, Part I: Wish" and/or some of my other recorded releases I also have available on Bandcamp at ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com - thanks! :)

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Har - Sunset 2063

This is an excerpt of the full album length (66 minute) long form digital single <b><a href="http://ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Into The Maelström, Vol. 1: The Tower By Night. LIVE: November 6, 2011"</a></b> - the third solo release from Chester County, Pennsylvania-based ambient artist Har, guitarist/bassist/Chapman Stickist for Beta-Lactam Ring Records recording artists Christus &amp; The Cosmonaughts.&#13;
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The full album-length (66 minutes) downloadable digital single is available now for only $3 USD at: <a href="http://ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/</a>&#13;
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Additional info including release notes, the promo video, etc. can be found at <a href="http://www.har-live.com/thetowerbynight" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.har-live.com/thetowerbynight</a>&#13;
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View the promo video at: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mquReKUheek" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=mquReKUheek</a>&#13;
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"Into The Maelström" is an ongoing series of long form, live-in-the-studio solo dark ambient improv sets by Har, usually performed during his weekly online dark-ambient radio show "Nightscaping" on <a href="http://Stillstream.Com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stillstream.Com</a> (Sunday nights at 5:30PM Eastern / 4:30PM Central). These are performed entirely in real-time with no overdubbing, using a variety of highly processed stringed instruments and occasional triggered field recordings - with no synths, MIDI pickups, etc used.&#13;
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"Vol. 1: The Tower By Night" was recorded and broadcast live to listeners world-wide on Sunday, November 6th, 2011 in my studio "Ice Station Zebra" during the special "Week After Halloween" edition of "Nightscaping" on <a href="http://Stillstream.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stillstream.com</a>.&#13;
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It was performed entirely on my 8-string electric guitar, an extended-range instrument with two additional bass-range strings along with the other typical six guitar strings. A variety of playing techniques are used including two-handed tapping as well as treating the guitar as a kind of percussion instrument - striking the body, neck and strings with fists and open hands. The resulting sounds are highly processed and looped in real-time using an arsenal of hardware effects and pedals.&#13;
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Processed field recordings captured whilst climbing inside the Assateague Lighthouse at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague Island, Virginia were also triggered at various key points to add chilling ambient sound-fields containing haunted distant voices and footsteps during the performance - sometimes providing a feeling of massive, ancient unearthly mechanics, within a cavernous vertical landscape.&#13;
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The combined results are a sixty-six minute sonic journey through a dark, mysterious and foreboding Autumnal landscape that can be alternately darkly soothing and terrifyingly haunted.&#13;
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Into The Maelström, Vol. 1: The Tower By Night. LIVE: November 6, 2011 (Excerpt)

A short pre-master excerpt from a live solo ambient guitar performance on Nightscaping, Har's weekly dark-ambient online radio show on Stillstream.com. 

UPDATE 1/27/2013: The full length final version is now available in high quality  MP3, FLAC at Har's Bandcamp store at: 

http://ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-maelstr-m-vol-2-down-the-corridor-live-july-22-2012

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Har - Into The Maelström, Vol. 2: Down The Corridor. LIVE: July 22, 2012 (Excerpt)

This is an excerpt "Into The Maelström, Vol4 -The Return of The Professor. LIVE: May 12, 2013", a long-form (over and hour and a half)  live solo ambient improv set performed live once again on Har's weekly radio how "Nightscaping" on Stillstream.com.

Differing drastically from Har's usual ambient/dark-ambient works - this was performed entirely on processed and looped piano - the instrument Har was originally formally trained on - instead of guitars, basses or Chapman Stick.

The full-length release will be available soon on Har's Bandcamp site at http://ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/

©2013 Har. All rights reserved.

Har - Into The Maelström, Vol4 -The Return of The Professor. LIVE: May 12, 2013 (Excerpt)

Har is an American solo ambient artist and guitarist/bassist/Chapman Stickist for the experimental art-rock band Christus and The Cosmonaughts (Beta-Lactam Ring Records recording artists), and has also recorded with artists such as elmodic, Altus, Thanatoloop, The Wretch and others. 

Har also records under the name Failover, a solo atmospheric rock/heavy-prog project, with releases available on his Bandcamp site at https://ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com/

Har was the host of the weekly online dark-ambient radio show "Nightscaping Radio" on Stillstream.Com.

For more information, please visit: 
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http://www.ambientguitarist.com

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