Welcome to the new Broken Drum Records website.  This is the home of Secret Archives of the Vatican and our alter-ego, Thousand Yard Prayer.  We've released many tracks and some albums already this year and we have many more lined up for release.  We're on your favourite streaming site and we're on YouTube and Bandcamp.

20 September 2024
Secret Archives of the Vatican released a single called Bardcore. It's a  total misuse of the term bardcore as it is, strictly speaking, not a bardcore tune. It's a straightforward nu-medieval track.

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13 September 2024
Secret Archives of the Vatican released a single called Sellsword. 
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30 August 2024
Secret Archives of the Vatican released a four track album called Nu-Medieval. We've been calling some of our music this past year or two Nu-Medieval music. It's a niche genre we're trying to create. So, for this release we just went the whole hog and called it Nu-Medieval. Four tracks that we hope will take you to elsewhere and elsewhen for a few moments. Escape with us.

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23 August 2024
Secret Archives of the Vatican released a single called I Must Not Fear.  We live in difficult times. Every day brings its challenges, its difficulties. They will pass over me and through me. I must not fear.
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2 August 2024
Secret Archives of the Vatican released a five track album called Overmorrow. This one is nu-medieval but modern, with a soundtrack feel and epic language-less vocals.

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14 July 2024
World Netlabel Day:  Secret Archives of the Vatican released a single, Harms​ǫ​ngr. Bandcamp and YouTube only.

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World Netlabel Day:  Thoussand Yard Prayer released a single, Kaurarya. Bandcamp and YouTube only.
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13 July 2024
Secret Archives of the Vatican released a five track EP (six tracks on Bandcamp version), Cauldron. KInd of nu-medieval but with science fiction and fantasy elements. Louis's new bass takes lead on one of the tunes.

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1 July 2024

Secret Archives of the Vatican launched our Patreon page.  What will be on there remains to be seen. Advance access to videos and tracks for sure, but please let us know what else might interest you. Free and paid subscriptions available.

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28June 2024
Secret Archives of the Vatican released a four track EP called Rite. This was full-on nu-medieval music, a genre we're trying to create.
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7June 2024
Secret Archives of the Vatican released an eleven track album, Temporal Displacement. It's are for us to release a full length album these days.
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3 May 2024

Secret Archives of the Vatican released a single, The Old Ways  There are old ways...and there are new ways. Don't be alarmed. There's still time to change the road you're on.

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12 April 2024

Secret Archives of the Vatican released a single, Padishah Khatun  Nu-medieval music is not about the past. It is about now or the future or an alternative history.
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12 April 2024

Thousand Yard Prayer released a single, Ruaya.   It is evocative, cinematic. It is about Vision.

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4 April 2024

Secret Archives of the Vatican released an single, Æftergenga  This is a what we think Hans Zimmer might sound like if he was scoring an epic film set in Anglo-Saxon times in what became England.
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4 April 2024

Thousand Yard Prayer released a single, Doomscroll. Epic science fiction music!
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2 April 2024

Secret Archives of the Vatican released an album, Tokens of Esteem Volume Nine. This is a collection of one-minute tracks written for vertical-format video on social media sites.
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29 March 2024

Thousand Yard Prayer released a single, Griot. It is epic, cinematic, science fiction music.
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22 March 2024

Thousand Yard Prayer released a single, The Shrouded City, fantasy music with a nu-medieval, dungeon synth, soundtrack feel.
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22 March 2024

Secret Archives of the Vatican released a single, Wicenga Dub. This is Dark Age neofolk - the word Wicenga was what the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle called the Norse raiders, much later known as Vikings.
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15 March 2024

Secret Archives of the Vatican released a six track album of Dark Age neofolk music, An Age Undreamed.
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14 March 2024

We went shopping!  Louis  invested in a new bass, a  Squire P bass, and new amp, a  Fender Mustang LT.  They will be appearing on some tunes soon!