About Folk Reels
Photo at my Mokotów (Warsaw) studio in 2018 by Jason Corder
Folk Reels is the collected and continuing works of Ian Hawgood.
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Born in the United Kingdom, I spent most of my adult life living in Japan, Italy and Poland. Currently I call Peacehaven (on the south coast, near Brighton) my home.
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Some of you visiting this page may know my work from the early net-label scene that came out of Berlin with labels such as Resting Bell and 12rec around 2005 - 2010. Some of you will know my work as the curator of the Home Normal, Nomadic Kids Republic, Tokyo Droning and Koen Music (KOMU) labels beyond that.
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I make music using an array of reel-to-reel and tape machines in my studio by the sea, where I also master works for many labels and artists alike. For more information about my mastering please go here.
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You'll often catch me on the coast here with my faithful Nagra recorder, hydrophone and field microphones. These days my focus of music is on decayed ambient works using old synths and reels mostly, alongside my childhood piano.
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This site was a way to collate all of my solo and collaborative works in the most minimal way possible. I have had the great fortune to work with some amazing record labels such as Dragon's Eye, Moteer/Mobeer, Smallfish, Infraction, Eilean, Hibernate, Acroplane, Fluid Audio, Wist Rec, Humming Conch, Slow Flow Rec, Experimedia, Resting Bell, Under The Spire, 12rec, I, Absentee, Phantom Channel, Test Tube, U-Cover, Luvsound, Lunar Flower, Best Kept Secret, October Man, Headaphonica, Handstitched, Preco, Dog Eared Records, and Umor Rex. My music currently has a home with Morr Music, Laaps, Slowcraft, Dauw, Slaapwel, and of course, Home Normal.
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My Folk Reels Bandcamp page has a subscription option of just £5 per year. This includes downloads of all past, present and future work as long as the subscription runs. I'm currently releasing all of my collated late-night recordings on a regular basis, alongside my collaborations with friends, as well as uploading my early works (see below).
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Thank you for taking the time to visit my little site and I hope you enjoy the music I have and will continue to make.
Sincerely,
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Ian aka. Folk Reels
Project Guide (Solo)
Ian Hawgood
Initially ambient and drone works but now mostly focused on tape-based ambient works
Koen Park
Live electronic works I made in my parent's garage way back when
Oh No Nuno! (Snow 駅)
Live pop-electronic work alongside sampling using a bunch of old S20's here and there
Apocomeno
My early folktronica project - looping classical guitars and various percussion
Project Guide (Collaborative)
Slow Reels
Decayed ambient works with James Murray on Morr Music
Monogoto
Experimental instrumental ambient with Porya Hatami and David Newman on 12k
Observatories
Tender vintage instrument sourced modular works with Craig Tattersall on IIKKI and Dauw
Rosales
Swirling guitar and synth echoes with Brad Deschamps on Polar Seas and Home Normal
Black Elk (Quartet)
Post-classical group where I worked in various combinations with Clem Leek, Danny Norbury and Tim Martin
Rion
Lush organic ambient music using guitar, double bass, mellotron and field recording with Ryo Nakata (Ryonkt)
Tiny Isles
Morr-style electronica with Christopher Hipgrave featuring Jason Corder and friends
Ben
Washed out ambient synths with hydrophone and field recordings with my label partner Ben Jones
Ouvala
Texture heavy off-kilter ambient to kitsch electronics with Tim Martin on Fluid Audio and Handstitched
Wraith vs Wrath
Deep drone project with my old mate Ben Jones
Lost Lanterns
Field recording and synth sourced textures on Resting Bell once again with Ben Jones
Kinder Scout
Lovely electronic-post-classical project with Danny Norbury and Jason Corder on Preco and Home Normal
Lantscap
Guitar and field recording based ambient suites with Warren Kroll on Infraction
The Whalers Collective
Dark drone works using gamelan (myself) and bass clarinet (Gareth Davis) alongside friends Félicia, Rie, Ryo
Solo Works
2020
2020
Ian Hawgood - Peace Fragments (Slowcraft)
2020
Ian Hawgood - You Lose Yourself, and That's OK (Folk Reels)
2020
Ian Hawgood - The Endless Sadness of the Shoreless Heart (Folk Reels)
2019
Ian Hawgood - Impermanence (Slowcraft)
2018
Ian Hawgood - å…‰ (vinyl) (Home Normal)
2018
Ian Hawgood - å…‰ (cd) (Eilean)
2017
Ian Hawgood - Chitarre Di Montalbano (Folk Reels)
2017
Ian Hawgood - The Hands That Play (Folk Reels)
2017
Ian Hawgood - Ageless (Folk Reels)
2017
Ian Hawgood - Forced Endeavours Never More (Folk Reels)
2017
Ian Hawgood - A Higher Refrain (Folk Reels)
2017
Ian Hawgood - Live at Vacant (Flau - Folk Reels)
2017
Ian Hawgood - Sselemarf Kultur (Folk Reels)
2016
Ian Hawgood - Love Retained (Home Normal)
2014
Ian Hawgood - Four Parts One - One Parts Four (The Unoffical Countryside) (Wist Rec)
2013
Ian Hawgood & Friends - Wolven (A Modern Interpretation) (Hibernate)
2012
Ian Hawgood - The Shattered Light (Koen Music)
2011
Ian Hawgood - Piano Works (reissue) (Koen Music)
2010
Oh No Nuno! - These Modern Ages (Umor Rex)
2010
Ian Hawgood - Slow Films in Low Light (Home Normal)
2010
Ian Hawgood - Live Performances, Japan 2009 (Under The Spire)
2010
Ian Hawgood - Tents and Hills (reissue) (Humming Conch)
2009
Ian Hawgood - Snow Roads (Dragon's Eye)
2009
Ian Hawgood - Phonetics and Fiction (Mobeer)
2009
Koen Park - The Lazy Burden (Acroplane Recordings)
2009
Ian Hawgood - We Are Better For Being Built This Way (Slow Flow Rec)
2009
Koen Park - Remixes, Reworkings And Reimaginings In A Quiet Form ‎(Smallfish Records)
2009
Koen Park - Remixes, Reworkings And Reimaginings (I, Absentee)
2009
Ian Hawgood - The Great Allure (Experimedia)
2009
Ian Hawgood - Wolfskin (Hibernate)
2009
Ian Hawgood - Before I Let The Sunshine Rot (Phantom Channel)
2009
Koen Park - '84 '85 (reissue) (Acroplane Recordings)
2009
Koen Park - Computers Are Not Our Friends (Acroplane Recordings)
2009
Ian Hawgood - Her Name Was Frailty (Test Tube)
2008
Ian Hawgood - Tents and Hills (Luvsound)
2008
Ian Hawgood - Tegami Beauty (U-Cover)
2008
Ian Hawgood - Shallows Waters, Distant Minds (Lunar Flower)
2008
Ian Hawgood - Urban Holiday (Lunar Flower)
2008
Koen Park - Everything in Shadow (Experimedia)
2008
Ian Hawgood - Soundtrack to a Film in My Head Which Will Never Get Made (Rope Swing Cities)
2008
Koen Park - My Log: August 2008 (Headphonica)
2008
Koen Park - Pastoral Pioneer (Acroplane Recordings)
2008
Oh No Nuno! - The Boutique Mission (Best Kept Secret)
2008
Apocomeno - Short Trips From Home (Best Kept Secret)
2008
Koen Park - Warbled Demos for Lone Dreamers (Best Kept Secret)
2008
Koen Park - Nowhere Home (Headphonica)
2008
Koen Park - Grey Night Clouds (Experimedia)
2008
Ian Hawgood - Enfants Ruraux (12rec)
2008
Ian Hawgood - A Life in Abstract Colours (Resting Bell)
2008
Koen Park - '84 '85 (October Man Recordings)
2007
Ian Hawgood - Spiral Into Somewhere (Resting Bell)
2007
Oh No Nuno! - Dusty Gentle Insides (Dog Eared Records)
2007
Ian Hawgood - The Fire Will Die At Night (Resting Bell)
2004
Ian Hawgood - Piano Works (self-released)
Collaborative Works
2021
Observatories - We both try for the same thing (but for completely different reasons) (IIKKI)
2021
Hawgood | Hüwels | Murray - Day Falls (Home Normal)
2021
Ian Hawgood + Stijn Hüwels - Voices (Home Normal)
2021
Rosales - Woven Songs (Polar Seas Recordings x Home Normal)
2020
Monogoto - (TBC)
2020
Slow Reels - Farewell Islands (Morr Music)
2019
Ian Hawgood + Stijn Hüwels - No Voices (Home Normal)
2019
Ian Hawgood + Phil Tomsett - Fragmented Boundaries (Home Normal)
2018
Ouvala - Multiperspectivity (Handstitched Recordings)
2018
Ian Hawgood + Giulio Aldinucci - Consequence Shadows (Home Normal)
2017
Ian Hawgood & Danny Norbury - Faintly Recollected (Home Normal)
2017
Ian Hawgood & Wil Bolton - Transparencies (Home Normal)
2016
Ouvala - Psychology of Colour (Fluid Audio)
2011
Kinder Scout - The Writing Life (Preco)
2014
Tiny Isles - The Long Seasoned Sleep (Koen Music)
2014
The Whalers Collective - Nantucket (I - VI) (Koen Music)
2014
Wraith vs Wrath - Kex | Lux (Koen Music)
2014
Black Elk & Konntinent - Sketches V (Koen Music)
2014
Black Elk - Sketches IV (Koen Music)
2014
Black Elk - Sketches III (Koen Music)
2014
Black Elk - Sketches II (Koen Music)
2014
Black Elk - Sketches I (Koen Music)
2013
Lantscap - Varying Degress of Alive (Infraction)
2013
Rion - ホタル ‎(Hibernate)
2012
offthesky vs Kinder Scout - The Curio Collection (Home Normal)
2012
Black Elk (Quartet) - Sparks (Koen Music)
2011
Bvdub & Ian Hawgood - The Truth Hurts (Nomadic Kids Republic)
2011
Kinder Scout - The Writing Life (Preco)
2010
Ian Hawgood - Slow Films in Low Light (Home Normal)
2007
Lost Lanterns - Polar Living (Resting Bell)
Contact Me
hello[at]folkreels[dot]com
The Wading Choir
Post-classical longform cello and tape loops with my Wolven collaborator Aaron Martin