Unrealfish Music

Music to relax too

Unrealfish Music is all about combining processed ambient guitar, down-temp chilled electronic instrumentation, found sounds and the occasional sample. Music created to wash over you, inspire or just perplex.

Melding together physical studio hardware recordings with in-the-box arrangements, soft-synths, sample based instruments with effects processing. No two compositions are the same.

Latest album release (17 September -2025)

Enigmatic Alchemy

Released: September 2025

1. Enigmatic Alchemy

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Starts out on piano with C suspended chord (neither major or minor) that gradually develops harmonically, transitioning into synth sequencing. The last section returns to piano with more complex chords that develops on the intro.

2. Intoxicated Dream

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Heavy use of a Chase Bliss pedals , Blooper and Mood to create the wonky, woozy ambient guitar loop.

3. Dusty Old Room

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Started out as a vamp on piano with loads of rests (space) allowing the lofi Rhodes like sound plenty room to breath. I like to grungy sounds and noice, it gives the track life. Use of cello gives the track more depth as it progresses.

4. Ice Train

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I (mostly) always title my music tracks based on the feeing I receive as I am composing, this one is no exception. I think it's the ambient guitar sequence that sweeps across the stereo field that has a chilly edge that inspired the title. The use of a lo-fi, analogue detuned syth patch gives it a nice 'Boards of Canada' feel. I am a big fan of their work.

5. Moons of Uranus

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The title is tongue-in-cheek as if that wasn't obvoius. The original, unpublished track name was Rings of Saturn but I felt it required an intro voice sample from Sir Patick Moore and the best I could find was reference to the outer planets which mentions Uranus - so that was it!. The main element of the track is the Moog Subharmonicon with lots of effects.

6. Lazy Saturday

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Pure ambient (lost of delay & reverb etc) with some spacious processed drums from the Novation Circuit Mk1. Nice, with hints of lo-fi.

7. Summers Day

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Bright and optimistic, starts with a field recording of birds singing, blending with ambient guitar using major (happy) chords with a slow sequence supplied by the Moog Mother 32. Very uplifting, I think!

8. Something in the Breeze

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This track has a dark and foreboding nature and starts with a field recording of a thunder storm then transitions to a dark drone and subharmonicon sequence peppered with gritty shaker style percussion generated by the Moog DFAM.

9. Unexpected Present

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Minimalist track with dystopian style ambient guitar contrasted against a sharp and glassy synth sequence that dances playfully, bouncing across the stereo field.

10. The Sublimate

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Minimalist track with 3 layers of sound, two guitar tracks, one a simple drone, then a repeating ambient chord sequence, topped of with a harmonic style pluck courtesy of the Electron Digitone. Very mellow and reflective.

11. End Credits

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End credits is played on the top four strings of guitar with an open d, or pedal note and has a jazzy vibe as its played on a Gibson ES 165 Herb Ellis addition semi accoustic guitar.

Total running time: 55 mins

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Ambient, chill, low-fi or just down tempo, who knows

For the sake of pigeonholing and categorising on music streaming services, I regard my music as ambient. This covers a lot of ground, to paraphrase Brian Eno's definition, its music you can either listen too, or ignore. Nearly* all of my tracks only have one thing in common, the tempo is set to 40 bpm (beats per minute) in music speak that could be Andante, Lento or Grave. Take your pick, Its slow and that’s the point. There are of course, exceptions to the rule.

*The exception is one track (so far) using at 56 bpm, I did it for technical reasons and I point the finger-of-shame at Korg*.

Inspirations

What inspired me to create slow tempo music? Good question (that I am actaully asking myself), maybe a combination of many things. There was probably a defining moment that I realised I wanted to write ambient guitar based music. I was searching, as you do, on YouTube for ambient guitarists and I discovered a video of Perry Frank, he was performing a composition outside, building up the music with layers (washes). I loved the sound he was making and what an impressive guitar effects peddleboard, its was awesome, so many devices. I thought, I want some of that. What sealed the way forward was visiting the Youtube channel Chords of Orien, ambient music and equipment reviews.

Evolving sounds

Experimentation in intrinsic to ambient music creation, which brings us to sound design. The ongoing search to discover a sound that inspires and has the right atmosphere. Doctor Johnson had a saying about London, I can apply it to my fascination of creating ambient guitar tones, washes and drones. I will never tire of experimentation and searching for the perfect evolving soundscape.

On the subject of sound design, I cannot see myself become board with buying guitar effects peddles, there are some many I simply must have! In the pursuit of art, of course. My long suffering wife sadly, doesn't see it the same way, just as well she is unaware of how much some of them cost! Just as well really and I hope she see this.

*My Korg external hardware devices have a minimum tempo of 56bpm.

Unrealfish

Ambient and down-tempo music

Music to relax too

Latest album release (17 September -2025)

Enigmatic Alchemy

Ambient, chill, low-fi or just down tempo, who knows

Inspirations

Evolving sounds