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Announcing Fawmpilation Vol. 3

The FAWM CD3 listening committee is pleased to (finally) announce the songs that will represent the FAWM 2007 experience on this year’s compilation. It was a tough job: we listened to over 80 great tracks (more than 4.5 hours of music!) and had to narrow it down to a mere fraction of that. Wow! Here […]

Avast!

Ahoy, all ye fawmin’ maties… take note! It be talk like a pirate day, so hoist ye vents to the lee an’ tarn yer eyes t’the seagalls. An’ in the fawmin’ spirit, write yerself a new sea-shanty to sing while sailin’ the shimmerin’ seas!!

Cartograms of FAWM 2007

Earlier this year, I aspired to create a “2007 Annual Report” that summed up statistics and trends about this year’s FAWM. I’d hoped to make it an annual tradition (like the fawmpilation CD) to document and characterize each year’s event. However, I was just too busy to pull it together in such a form. Several […]

“Fawmpilation” #3 Is Under Way!

Here’s a photo of all the submissions we got in the mail for this year’s compilation CD (not including the many submitted online by internationals and procrastinators)! In total, there are over 80 tracks for the listening committee to review, from about 40 fawmers. General trends? There are several collaborations, a few instrumentals, and a […]




FAWM 2008

The 5th Annual FAWM is in February 2008. The site has launched and is ready to go: FAWM.ORG

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