Awen – Reincarnation: Remixes And Remodels (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Neo-Folk, Industrial.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Hailing from Dallas, Texas (USA) Awen has already released multiple productions. Front man Erin Powell got the idea to ask other artists to remix songs of the bands. We get a work featuring seventeen songs remixed by an interesting palette of much diversified artists.
Content: Most remix-albums are often filled with bands from the same music style. Awen voluntarily asked a very diversified number of artists. Patrick Leagas (Sixth Comm, Mother Destruction), Ostara, Nachtmahr, David E. Williams, Murderous Vision, Spiritual Front, Church Ov Melkarth, Beastinaity, ANTIchildLEAGUE, Static Of Masses, Patterson-Gimlin, Et Nihil, Boyd Rice, Samsas Traum, Thomas Nöla, Void Prototype and Delphine Coma have been invited to rework the original Awen songs. The result is absolutely surprising, mixing pure Neo-Folk (Ostara), Electronics (Nachtmahr), Tribal (Spiritual Front), Industrial (Static Of Masses) and even Electro-Minimalism (Patterson-Gimlin).
+ + + : I’ve never been a huge fan of remix-albums, but I can appreciate artists thinking out of the box. And that’s precisely what Awen has done selecting artists who’re totally different from their beloved Neo-Folk style. It’s just great to see artists like Nachtmahr, Void Prototype and Samsas Traum accepting the challenge. It’s of course also more than simply a bonus to get Patrick Leagas and Boyd Rice at board. And it also is interesting to have another Neo-Folk driven formation such as Spiritual Front. All together it creates a very eclectic work, which feels a bit like a compilation, but which is fascinating to see how other artists have reinterpreted the work of Awen.
– – – : If you’re not open-minded and just loving Neo-Folk and nothing else, this compilation will reserve for you a few bad surprises –especially some Electro-driven remixes.
Conclusion: This album tents to prove that a compilation can be also original; just asking for the creative mind of other musicians.
Best songs: “Il Re Grigio Cupo – Static Of Masses”, “The Death Of Reynard – Patterson-Gimlin”, “The Sickle And The Setting Sun – Nachtmahr”, “Brigid The Dark, Brigid The Light – Spiritual Front”.
Rate: (7½).
Artist: www.facebook.com/AWENTRISKELERECORDINGS
Label: www.trisol.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Trisol-Music-Group/104166526285471
About Awen
Awen is a neofolk and martial industrial band from the Dallas, Texas area, formed in 2003 by Erin Powell. Discogs lists the band’s chronology from a self-released 2006 demo and the self-titled 2007 debut album through “The Hollow In The Stone” (2019) and the “I Was Evil” single (2021), both released via Trisol.
“Reincarnation: Remixes And Remodels” gathers reinterpretations of Awen tracks by, among others, Patrick Leagas, Boyd Rice, Nachtmahr, Spiritual Front and Samsas Traum, released as a strictly limited 999-copy digipak CD via Trisol, per the label’s own Bandcamp credits. Awen went on to release “This World And Its Spirits” (2024) and “A Nature Out Of Season” (2025), per Discogs.
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