The new Forwind release comes courtesy of Vienna based artist Jakob Schauer. “In death I am caressing you” is a seven track twist of ghostly disruptions, glitched electronics and vaporous blasts of noise.

In death I am caressing you’s sounds are generated from a wide array of analog and synthetic sources in an attempt to build “hyperrealistic acoustic atmospheres and sonic gestures.

The latest Forwind release will be available in a limited edition Digipak and digital.

In death I am caressing you

FWD31 - Jakob Schauer - Breathing

France based chamber duo Snowdrops return with their final release of 2021. Arguably their most adventurous and experimental release to date, ‘Inner Fires’ features four tracks of Ondes Martenot, piano, synths and tubular bells with Richard Knox (A-Sun Amissa) featuring on electric guitar on the closing track.

« Inner Fires is an anticipation disc in four chapters, a sort of cinematographic dramaturgy presenting four instrumental pieces that tell us about collective loneliness and underground collectives, sleepy thoughts and sudden awakenings. The resignation of each, the courage of some. It speaks of introspections and expressions. Of the slow disappearance of our beings from our world, and of the intense fight to bring them back to life. On the edge of the precipice. Like a cry of alarm. So as not to become a society of specters. »

Artwork by Peter Collins

Inner Fires

FWD32 - Snowdrops - Elevation

Track 2 from 'The Otolith Sessions', Atom Eye's second LP. This will be released on Forwind along with a 47 page book. Release date : 2013-11-18
http://www.forwind.net/releases/fwd11

Label Release

3 ¾ - Atom Eye - The Otolith Sessions

Forwind kicks 2016 off with three powerful new EP’s by Tokyo's Tomonari Nozaki. The first instalment 'Credence' is Tomonari's first new material on the label since his hugely well received debut 'North Palace' in 2013.

The new compositions see Tomonari experimenting with even denser layers of sound, morphing acoustics and chugging industrial rhythms, all while keeping his distinctive and much loved tape recorded sonics hissing and gestating away.


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Pt.1

'Concession' brings Tomonari's EP series to a close with two diverse, compelling pieces.

Pt.2 completes Tomonari's musical journey with the most startling track of the whole series. The 12 minute epic builds in electrifying fashion adding layer after layer of dramatic chords, white noise and off grid rhythms before a pulverising climax. 

Click the Buy link to purchase the full quality full release.

Third track from FWD19 - Jeremy Keenan 'Scripts'

'Forwind’s twentieth release sees sound artist Jeremy Keenan make his label debut with a half hour of radiant, carefully crafted electro-acoustics'

'Buy' will take you to Bandcamp where the full release is available now.

Scripts

Zapffe

Taken from the upcoming album 'Traumas'. 
Release date 21/06/2018

FWD21 sees Anders Brørby make his Forwind debut with an articulate and personal piece of work. Anders explores feelings of ’fear, isolation and trauma’ by taking on a wide range of styles using both analog and digital recordings. We shift from hazy and emotive 4/4 numbers that would work in deeper house and techno sets via ambience, noise bursts and reflective acoustic pieces.

Traumas will be available as a handmade CD-R package and across all the usual digital outlets and services. Hit 'Buy' to pre-order the album and listen to a second track from Traumas; 'Body Love'.

Traumas

FWD21 - Anders Brørby - Trauma

'Tones mor' is taken from FWD24 - Rune Clausen 'Tones jul' 

Digipacks and digital available to purchase:
https://forwind.bandcamp.com/album/tones-jul

Forwind arrives at release number 25 with a trip to the Norwegian forests. Rune Clausen’s “Tones  jul”  leads the listener on a sinister trail through the thicket with a foreboding set of tracks that come winter ready from subzero Norway.

Tones jul  follows up the moods from his collaboration with Anders Brørby, “Mannen Faller”, a tribute to the long gone Norwegian forests, its animals and people living there in both fear and joy. Rune's Forwind debut is a darker and more anguished piece of work. Rune’s first solo album under his own name, is musically and thematically influenced by Norwegian folk music, ambient, ambient black metal, the rough and dark fates of 19th century people.

Tones jul

FWD24 - Rune Clausen - Tones mor

This is the last track from our latest volume of Angry Ambient Artists. Tomonari Nozaki teams up with Conflux Coldwell to deliver a post apocalyptic soundtrack for a terror fuelled journey. This Tokyo/Leeds combo delivers on what it promises and has really energised our Angry Ambient series. 
This track is Tomonari's 'Sound Locator', relentless and powerful,  
Please have a listen !

Cassette and digital available to purchase:
https://forwind.bandcamp.com/album/angry-ambient-artists-vol-4

Angry Ambient Artists Vol.4

FWD26 brings another instalment of agro, ambience and head on rhythms to the Forwind catalogue with Distortion Of The Cell by Seasons (pre-din). The Manchester based artist is probably most commonly associated with his work in the ambient and drone fields having released a string of well received albums on his own Thy-Rec imprint, Mystery Sea and Type. Distortion of the Cell continues down the darker paths explored on his 2012 release Lesser and Still and 2017's hiatus ending Kill-Sweep. 

The latest addition to the mysterious Mancunian’s catalogue is a varied release that takes in several stylistic approaches while remaining a coherent listen. Roughly half of the album is focused on a meld of post-punk and dingy club influenced beats propelling the atmospherics that range from warm and engaging to full throttle and abrasive. The beatless interludes and final stretch take in some more retrained ambience as well as some searing efforts in that cross section between drone and the warmer end of the noise spectrum. There's a thematic and musical twisting of the lines that hints at a corruption at source and of self, and if you're in a good mood an eventual dissolution in the soaring static. 

Distortion Of The Cell is complemented with a detailed and layered artwork by Glasgow based Dubliner Peter Collins. There's a brutalist element to the monochrome piece that's more than apt and fronts the sonics in style. 

FWD26 will be available as a limited edition jewel case CD with multiple options for those who prefer stocking up on their distortions via digital. The broad palette should appeal to fans of everything from noisy ambience and drone to post-punk and disheveled 4/4 excursions. 

Pre-order:
https://forwind.bandcamp.com/album/distortion-of-the-cell

Distortion Of The Cell

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The final Forwind release of 2019 sees the Swedish multi-instrumentalist Erik Levander join the roster with a dynamic speaker filling five tracker. 

The album title 'Inåt', translating 'Inwards', refers to the introspectiveness of the compositions, drawing inspiration from personal struggles in everyday life. The track titles and music cycles point to another layer of context with the ongoing pattern in politics, and of people turning inward, being somewhat inescapable. 

A more synth heavy release than 2018's 'Couesnon', Inåt still features a vibrant blend of digital, analog and acoustic sounds. The clarinet is present at times, but also traces of other acoustic sources, all put through their paces with everything from guitar pedals to digital processing utilised, as Erik twists them into some wonderful tones, trails and timbres.

Erik's powerful sound of deconstructed and digitised clarinets, pianos and guitars will appeal to fans of big atmospherics with some real artistry and serious bite.

Digipak and digital available to pre-order:
https://forwind.bandcamp.com/album/in-t

Inåt

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FWD27 - Erik Levander - Oförankrad

Italian musician Attilio Novellino released his first album in 2009. Since then he has been focused on the use of sound as a psycho-acoustic tool throughout his solo albums and collaborative projects. June 2020 sees Attilio’s first release on Forwind.

Recorded in Stockholm at EMS Elektronmusikstudion, and in Catanzaro, Italy, Attilio used a wide range of sound sources including; piano soundboard with strings, grand piano, prepared piano, Buchla 200 modular synthesizer, Serge modular, Prophet 5, harmonium, organ, percussions and electronics. There are varied approaches and results across the four pieces as it moves from some beautifully recorded grand piano sections via ambience and carefully crafted abrasiveness.

Strängar will be available as a limited edition Digipak and digital release.

Strängar

FWD28 - Attilio Novellino - Strängar I

'Lisa' - Track 1 from the debut album 'Verwoben' by Martina Claussen 

Martina Claussen has been active as a composer, vocal artist and Professor of Voice in Vienna for many years. After many collaborations and appearances on some excellent compilations she's arrived at her full debut album, a project we're very excited to be part of as Forwind reaches its thirtieth release.

Verwoben (Interwoven) is an engrossing, intricate album of electronics and electro-acoustics with Martina’s voice being the primary sound source for most of the compositions. The five tracks were crafted over several years of experiments, recordings and live performances before finding their final form, with Martina's production and sound design skills shining through in the innovative results.

Packed with movement and dynamics, Verwoben swerves between the apparent, abstract and engagingly abstruse via pensive electronics, contemporary rumblings and harsher sections all swirling around the home base of Martina’s voice, that always lends the album a warmth even as the sound moves further and further out into more shadowy and desolate spaces.

Verwoben will be available as a limited edition Digipak and in all digital formats. Buy link will take you to our Bandcamp.

Verwoben

FWD29 - Martina Claussen - Lisa

Opening track from Alex Mackay's 'Targazer' album.
Forwind - 01/10/2020
https://forwind.bandcamp.com/album/ta...

Mogwai live team member Alex Mackay comes charging out of the gate on his debut solo album with a fierce new work that will appeal to fans of dark dense electronics. From the frenzied blast beats of the album opener God Monitor/Screen Burn to the intense sludgy heaviness of Hex Negative, Targazer chews its way through its evolving environs.

The album art and video are the second strand to Targazer’s double helix; Alex and artist Matt Zurowski's vision of the creation of a bio-digital domain. In this new ecology, biological and digital realities overlap and interfere with one another, a visual parallel to the collision of digital and organic musical processes within the music. Moss breaks through cracks in stone and cracks in data, negotiating new forms of being as a part-digital organism. Unlikely, uncanny and amorphous objects populate this territory between territories.

The video accompanying the album’s opening track ‘God Monitor/Screen Burn' is a study of textures and surfaces. It interprets the fabric of organic and computational domains as entangled and fragile realities. Differences in movement, image quality, texture and shape all contribute to the conjuring of an interconnected bio-digital consciousness which navigates through the similarities and disparities of these subjects.

Targazer

FWD30 - Alex Mackay - God Monitor/Screen Burn

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