UK-based ambient folk artist Black Brunswicker confirms new album ‘Been Around Here Before’ out 9/27

Manchester-based ambient folk artist Ethan Helfrich (who releases music under the moniker Black Brunswicker) is excited to confirm the release of their upcoming album, Been Around Here Before, due September 27th via Nettwerk. Been Around Here Before was forged from a feverish memory bank of muggy Midwestern summers spent ambling through forests, streams, and caves in search of shade. Close your eyes, and you can almost hear the creek burbling over rocks, green leaves melting into a clammy, mirage-rich blur-like wavy heat rising from hot asphalt. 

To celebrate the news, Black Brunswicker is excited to share the final track from the new album “Down at the Creek,” a slow evening meditation with vocal loops and tape noise drifting gently downstream as a slow trumpet trails off on the horizon through the flutters of dancing birds. Summer is at its peak. The world seems to move by slowly when sat down at the creek.  

“Down at the Creek” is available on all streaming platforms here.

Been Around Here Before is available for pre-order here.

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Black Brunswicker creates rich ground for reflection with roaming instrumentals closely rooted in nature, casting a restful spell. The Bloomington, Indiana-born/U.K.-based artist grew up in the Midwest and brings the sweeping plains of the landscape into their expansive guitar-led sound, drawing you closer to something primordial, vast, and earthy. Been Around Here Before jells into a 10-track collection of DIY folk-brushed ambient that balances noise with beauty. Reunited with an old Tascam four-track, Black Brunswicker used field recordings and DIY cassette loops—also recording to tape for the first time in four years—to build a mellowed out, sun-glazed scrapbook of their past, finding a welcomed stillness through music as they grapple with present-day anxieties.