Department of Forever - Unseen Pictures (2019)

Department Of Forever is a new musical outing for Irish Sound Designer/Musician, Steve Fanagan. Unseen Pictures is a collection of ambient/drone music. The songs were originally improvised and recorded over a few days and then chopped up, edited, reworked and constructed into the 9 tracks included here. It is a deeply personal piece of work and medative in nature. This album was very much inspired by Steve’s sound design work in film over the last decade.

One of the tracks, A Simulation Of Here, was recently used by Irish filmmaker Tadhg O'Sullivan for his film contribution to the exhibition 'A Visibility Matrix' curated by Sven Anderson and Gerard Byrne, which initially exhibited at The Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin last summer.

“Unseen Pictures” is the second release on independent Irish label “Wow and Flutter”. The label is a home for artists interested in creating electronic, ambient, atmospheric music and is a means to bring that music to the world. Each release will be available on limited edition cassette (100 copies) with bespoke artwork that will form a complete set.

Thank you: Cat Hughes, Greg O'Brien, Tadhg O'Sullivan, J. Cowhie, Nathan Nugent, my family and friends.