Talvi (winter/folk/dungeon synth)

[talvisynth]

Greetings everyone!

Back in the years '97-'03 I had a project called Talvi ('winter' in Eng.). I was heavily inspired by Mortiis and Wongraven and pretty much everything Nordic back then. I released a CD-R demo Ikirouta ('permafrost') during the first half of '01. It was limited to 50 hand-numbered copies and distributed mainly between friends and close circles.

During '01-'03 I worked with the 2nd demo Lumiusva ('snow mist'), but unfortunately I never got it finished/released. All materials from that time dwelled in backups for ages to come, but somewhere during '21 I found the old external harddrive and managed to salvage the old files that I had thought were lost and gone forever. The Lumiusva material needed some remastering, but otherwise those songs remain unchanged. I then uploaded both old demo releases to Bandcamp for everyone interested in checking out my humble music from 20+ years back.

Furthermore, this summer I got this wild idea to revive my old project and start creating music for it again. Thus, back in September, a brand new EP Kuurankajo ('rime shimmer') got finished and released, presenting 5 completely new songs in wintry medieval fantasy synthscapes created with the original 4MB MIDI soundfont from the 90's that came with my old Sound Blaster card and which was also used in the old demos.

talvisynth.bandcamp.com/


Also, Talvi - Complete Works '01-'22 (incl. both old demos and the new EP) is now available on the following services:

Spotify:

Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/albums/B0BG3KCC42
YouTube Music: music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m433tAOvtFcJ-ahIJLBPDi-AjwyAEofKo

Cheers all!

[crystallogic13]

Listening to your 2001 release, very nice atmospheric one, enjoying it as I write halfway through!! It's a good thing you uncovered the releases since the era 2000-2010 is considered one of the more quiet in Dungeon Synth releases (in retrospect) but it's always nice to see diamonds unveiled and that past decade having a stronger lineup of releases!! All bookmarked for more exploration soon enough, glad to have you on forum and listening to your releases, regards!!

[talvisynth]

A new song from the upcoming Menneenkierä EP '23 is now out as a single!

"Menneenkierä" (roughly transl. 'snowdrift of the halcyon days' in Eng.) is a wrap-up of separate bits and pieces, ideas and fragments, concepts and memos from years back, and thus a hybrid of old and new: the base melodies are from '99-'02 (from time somewhere between Ikirouta and Lumiusva demos), which have then received a lot of flesh around the bones with completely new harmonies and arrangements.

The new EP will include the last remaining pieces of previously unused melodies from the past finally forged into 5 complete songs of wintry and folky MIDI synthscapes. 

talvisynth.bandcamp.com/album/menneenkier-single-99-02-23

[bartizanier]

Cool, thanks for posting this. I look forward to checking it out when I have a moment to really listen.