After a very long hiatus from creating ambient music I've finally started to tear myself away from my other duties and activities to generate some new material. Not really organized into album form yet this is just a collection of this year's efforts mostly employing my newer modus operandi using guitar and pedal board looping techniques. I couldn't play a tune on guitar to save my life but it's a great signal generator and tone manipulator… 

Given our incredibly short attention spans I've changed the order on these pieces in hopes of enticing visitors to listen past the 1st 2 tunes… LOL

Ambient Music 2013

Colorado's September 2013 inundation left us gobsmacked as up to 18" of rain fell on the region in a week. Here in Greeley at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre rivers we receive the outflow of about a 100 mile swath of the front range, concerning when one canyon gets hit and floods but when every canyon gets sloshed for a week receiving a years worth of moisture... it's all gotta run somewhere and that's right through us...

Excerpted from a live to 2 track guitar looping improv

The New Normal (500 Yr Flood)

A tongue in cheek poke at the hooded, scowling servants of Dark Ambient... Pull a goat head off the barbie and grab a bladder of haggis... Happy Halloween! (Feel free to include this in your haunted house soundtrack!)

Obsequious Slave Of The Forboding Sky-Part II

This ambient meditation was recorded after dawn in my cabin in NW Ontario while my sons slept close by and reminds me of family and friends departed whose presence remains around me in that place which was and is the spiritual nexus for my family. I miss you all dearly and in that place you all remain very much alive...

I Feel Your Shadows

A rather long morning guitar loop improv from the cabin last summer with a new layer of Iris added for the holidays... I'm having a lot of fun getting to know Iris and Simon Stockhausen's (Sampleconstruct) programming for it. I suspect a rather large swath of the ambient community is as well  ;-o

Wholetone Dilemna

The first of this summer's ambient offerings to escape… The unsettling drone and shifting harmonics brought to mind a dear friend departed by his own hand. CP we miss you so very dearly and your spirit left this spinning rock in space far too soon.

An Empty Chair...

In memory of an old friend whose star shown so brightly and whose incandescence  took it's toll. She never quite managed to comfortably return to the mundane orbits of we mortals. Gone entirely too soon and I hope you've found peace... We are the poorer for your loss...

Amanda (extended)

ambient guitar piece recorded live to 2 track.

Somber Marsh

an ambient guitar piece recorded live to 2 track.

A Walk On the Surface

Under the Icecap

I found a chunk of audio on a cassette while I was looking for other stuff that inspired a new ambient tune. It still needs a little work on the metals but I was happy enough with it to share it in it's current form.

Tibetan Horns

A rather dark, somewhat oppressive flirtation with cellular asphyxiation

Hypoxia

Squidwerks aka Greg Heimbecker is a Northern Colorado based recording engineer, sometimes saxophonist & longtime fan of music across many genres. I have a particular soft spot for ambient music in the tradition of the "great bald one" Brian Eno. As my SoundCloud develops there will be collections of my engineering efforts as well as a section of ambient music composed and performed by myself and a few of my close friends over the past 30 years or so...(be sure to check out https://soundcloud.com/nine-horse-johnson!) enjoy!

And if you're in the mood to check out one of the finest university jazz programs in North America point your ears over to https://soundcloud.com/uncjazz to check out more of my work for the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Studies Department!