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	STEPHEN BACCHUS - Ambient Origins (cd)


	STEPHEN BACCHUS - Etherium (cd-r)


	STEPHEN BACCHUS - Pangaea (cd)


	JONATHAN BADGER - Metasonic (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI & MATHIAS GRASSOW - True North (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI & NIMH - Entities (cd-r)


	AMIR BAGHIRI & WEE BANDITS - A Brief History of Light (cd-r)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Bluebox Collection (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Cages (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Dreamresources (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Exosphere (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Planet X (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Rooms (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Time (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Winterscape (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Yalda (cd-r)


	CHRISTOPHE BAILLEAU - Air Resort (cd)


	DAN BARRIO - This Physical World (cd-r)


	EVAN BARTHOLOMEW - Caverns of Time (cd)


	EVAN BARTHOLOMEW - Secret Entries into Darkness (cd)


	KEVIN BARTLETT - Glow in the Dark (cd)


	KEVIN BARTLETT - Near Life Experience (cd)


	ADRIAN BEASLEY - Powerhouse (cd-r)


	MICHEL BEKKERING - Cosmopolitan Dances (cd-r)


	DENE DE BENEDICTIS - A Lone Reply (cd)


	DENE DE BENEDICTIS - Salvaging the Past (cd)


	MICHAEL THOMAS BERKLEY - Arctic (cd)


	MICHAEL THOMAS BERKLEY - Images from Earth (cd)


	BERNHARD - Down on Earth (cd-r)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - Autumn Continent (cd)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - Radio Silence (cd-r)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - Secret Observatory (cd)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - The Edge of a Fairytale (cd)


	AMIN BHATIA - Virtuality (cd)


	MARK BIEHL - Landscapes (cd)


	DANIEL BLANCHET - L’Harmonie des Mondes (cd)


	SERGE BLENNER - Musique de Chambre (cd)


	DANIEL BLOOM - Event Horizon (cd)


	BLUE STONE - Breathe (cd)


	BLUETECH - Phoenix Rising (cd)


	BLUTIGER FLUSS - Dawn of Mars (cd-r)


	BLüCHEL & VON DEYLEN - Bi Polar (cd)


	BLüCHEL & VON DEYLEN - Mare Stellaris (cd)


	CHRIS BOCAST - Through the Airlock (cd)


	WOLFGANG BOCK - Cycles (Lp)


	CLAUS BOCKSTANDT - Voyages (cd)


	IAN BODDY & BERNHARD WöSTHEINRICH - Hemispheres (cd-r)


	RICHARD BONE - Experiments ’80-’82 (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Infinite Plastic Creation (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Saiyuji (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Short Waves (cd-r/dvd-r)


	RICHARD BONE - The Eternal Now (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - The Spectral Ships (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Vesperia (cd)


	RON BOOTS & FRIENDS - By Popular Demand (cd)


	RON BOOTS & FRIENDS - Joie de Vivre (cd)


	RON BOOTS & IAN BODDY - Phase 3 (cd)


	RON BOOTS & JOHN KERR - Offshore Islands (cd)


	RON BOOTS, KEES AERTS & HAROLD VAN DER HEIJDEN - BAH! Live in Sweden (cd-r)


	RON BOOTS - 80's Box (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Acoustic Shadows (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Area Movement (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Beyond the Boundaries of Twilight (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Current (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Derby! (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Detachment of Worldly Affairs (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Different Stories and Twisted Tales (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Dreamscape (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Ghost of a Mist (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Liquid Structures in Solid Form (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Mea Culpa (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Of Desolate Places And Urban Jungles (cd-single)


	RON BOOTS - Screaming Whispers (cd)


	RON BOOTS - See Beyond Times, Look Beyond Words (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Tainted Bare Skin (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Too Many Secrets (cd)


	KEVIN BRAHENY - Galaxies (cd)


	BRAIN LAUGHTER II - Not Far from a Distant Sun (cd)


	BRAINWORK - Ten (cd)


	STEVE BRAND - Bridge to Nowhere (cd-r)


	STEVE BRAND - SoulSpiral (cd-r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Satori (cd-r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Shimmer (cd-r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Silver (cd -r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Stories from the Forest (cd)


	THOM BRENNAN - Vibrant Water (cd-r)


	BROEKHUIS, KELLER & SCHöNWäLDER - Blue (cd)


	BROEKHUIS, KELLER & SCHöNWäLDER - Live @ Dorfkirche Repelen 2 (cd)


	BROEKHUIS, KELLER & SCHöNWäLDER - Repelen 3 (cd)


	BROKEN HARBOUR - Broken Harbour (cd-r)


	VINCENT BRULEY - Dauphins et Baleines (cd)


	VINCENT BRULEY - La Nature s’endort (cd)


	BRUNETTE MODELS - Last Poem (cd)


	HAROLD BUDD & CLIVE WRIGHT - A Song for Lost Blossoms (cd)


	HAROLD BUDD - The White Arcades (cd)


	RICHARD BURMER - Invention (cd)

BROKEN HARBOUR
Broken Harbour
CD-R, Consouling Records, 2009

Broken Harbour is the alias of Blake Gibson, a Canadian musician who focuses on deep and minimal ambient drone-based music, for which he applies synthetic sources, assorted samples, and real time performances.

The biggest part of the album, containing five long form pieces, explores the isolation that a space explorer experiences, conveying a sense of foreboding distance while floating in the vast emptiness of space.

Blake explains he’s fond of remote, barren landscapes and spacious places, therefore creating desolate, intriguing soundscape textures (some of extreme low frequencies), crackles and glitches which slowly evolve from ethereal and suffocating to crystalline and beautiful. This description made me think the music of this self-titled debut might be sounding like Ran Kirlian, Max Corbacho and even Steve Roach.

It turned out somewhat otherwise, as the meandering, pretty dark and gloomy drone-textures are actually more in vein of "Deep Frieze" by Sleep Research Facility or the debut release of "3 Seconds of Air".

The track "Requiem for Dead Spacemen", found at the centre of the album, deserves a special mention. It sounds more fluid, and is an emotional, melancholic tribute to those who lost their lives out there.

All who love long form spacious realms and expansive drone tapestries should check out this well-produced release.

Website: www.brokenharbour.ca