the full version of „nocny“ will be released on 22/1/22
everything by christian maiwald, oct-dec 2021

https://mayforest.bandcamp.com/album/nocny

nocny (excerpts)

As much as I love classic ambient music I have always liked loud guitars and bands that use them to a kind of ambient effects. Earth and SunnO))) of course but also shoegaze bands or Yo La Tengo. 
So here´s my humble attempt to channel and blend these, in a lofi way.  Making this has been extremely rewarding , let´s see where this will go, what shape this will take. For now have fun with this.

https://mayforest.bandcamp.com/

unthink (like a mountain)

„They say that those who are destined to be hanged are not going to drown.“ – Vladimir Putin

This comes of course as a reaction to what is happening in Russia and Ukraine right now. Someone in the Kremlin has taken a too deep breath of the embalmed corpse of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and feels like on a mission to reunite the Soviet State. It´s enraging that this imperialistic thinking has made such a surprise comeback and with such grave consequences on top. It´s horrible, upsetting, it once again makes you realize how great it would be if we forgot about this weird idea of a nation. A nation to belong to, to die for, to forcefully reunite. If the 20th century has taught us one thing then it´s we have to come up with something better.

So here is my coping mechanism. A few minutes of claustrophobic noises, uneasy soundscapes, a sense of inescapability, even a mean riff, bracketed by quotes from the man himself, threatening the world in the beginning, while a rocket hits a residential building (a recording from last night), and admitting at the end that his fate may be a gruesome one: „They say that those who are destined to be hanged are not going to drown.“ he said in an interview a few years ago. Take his words, there is hope.

The cover is a screenshot from a short video of a car being run over by a tank. While the incident seems authentic – there´s video material from different angles and reports about what happened to the car driver – it´s more of a symbol for the current war in general. And it´s taken from what has now become an unsafe home.
The car driver survived, by the way.

This piece can be downloaded for free, used for everyone´s unpleasure, I´ll just leave it here. Money this may generate will be donated to Doctors without Borders.
Stay safe! Peace! 

everything by christian maiwald, feb 2022

download here: https://mayforest.bandcamp.com/track/smoking-lenins-corpse

Mayforest – Smoking Lenin's Corpse

first song from new album „herbarium“, release on sep 22nd, 2023.
pre-order here: https://mayforest.bandcamp.com/album/herbarium
cd / cd-bundle with print / dl / stream

lens flare

second song from new album „herbarium“, release on sep 22nd, 2023.
https://mayforest.bandcamp.com/album/herbarium
cd / cd-bundle with print / dl / stream

herbarium

biodegradable

we know the rhetoric, we know the construction of others to look down on, we know the hate-mongering, we know the veil of propaganda, we know the disregard of facts, we know how we’re led to believe it’s for our good, we know little people acting like big people, we know the gleeful absence of dignity, the gloating arrogance, we know the dismantling of rights, freedom and institutions, we know it all.
we as a society don’t have to completely agree on many things, but the moment we don’t agree on being against fascism anymore we have a serious problem. it’s fundamental, a core value.

these are challenging times that are asking for you to stand up. this can end horribly and people involved will again be the ones saying it wasn’t them, they didn’t know. this can also end well.

can ambient, „as ignorable as it is interesting“ (eno), also be political? when the clock is being dialed back as it is now it has to be, to some extent at least.
the music here is not telling you what to think, but asking you to see.

what has been part of all my releases in the past comes to the foreground here: „this is music against nazis & fascism“ it said. It needs to be said more than ever.

https://mayforest.bandcamp.com/album/antifascist-ambient

antifascist ambient I

one of two new tracks. you can find and download „in passing“ for free here:
https://mayforest.bandcamp.com/

inpa

1. roots, rootless I 0:00
2. roots, rootless II 9:02
3. interlude, suspended 13:32
4. interlude, parenthesis 19:02
5. our ghosts I 22:52
6. will we know it when we find it (with echowoman) 33:21
7. our ghosts II 45:48
8: found in people 54:00

self-released on April 27th, 2018
produced and recorded by christian maiwald during winter 2017/2018
mastered by ian hawgood at mokoshi

info & order here: http://mayforest.bandcamp.com/album/roots

roots

roots (full album)

track for local underground music compilation. 
more info on that once it´s available, should be out soon.

mayforest – for reference

second track from self-released new ep „3“

everything by christian maiwald 2018/2019

info & free dl here: mayforest.bandcamp.com/album/3

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