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"In Music the Passions Enjoy themselves." - FWN

About Me

Eihwaz is the Acoustic and Folk Music of Anwend (Der Ewige Wanderer, Waldweg), created in winter of 2006/07
The concept of Eihwaz is deeply rooted within Ancestral Spirit and Memory, the Power of the Runes, and the Forces of Nature. I started Eihwaz in the winter of 2006/07, after writing the very first song of Yule Galdr. It was my first recorded acoustic work, and after being very happy with the Result, I began to form all the concepts in my head. For the name I chose Eihwaz, which came very naturally, and the more time goes by, the more I realize how perfect this name was for my project and all the meanings behind it. Eihwaz is the 12th Rune in the Elder Futhark, its shape is very special to me, and I have spent more time meditating on this Rune than the others (for now), and it continues to unfold for me.
I began to write more songs, and after compiling a few I came up with the concept for my first album, Will of Yggdrasil, a very metaphorical concept focusing on my Beliefs and our connections in Life to all the Nature around us. Not only does this album have a deep meaning for me, but it is also the perfect intro for Eihwaz being that the meaning is very linked.
After writing the songs for Will of Yggdrasil, I began to write various other songs, not doing much in the way of recording until I wrote Ostaralied, and once I wrote this song I knew the concept of my upcoming album. I am currently working on this second release, and still working ..ing the recording of the first album. I will be focusing on all German Lyrics, and once again very Spiritual themes and moods, Music to move the soul and fill the mind with wondrous and beautiful visions.
Eihwaz is my deepest Passion in Life, and I will continue working on my Music, furthering it, ascending it (and myself) to greater heights and feelings. May my Music move you, and my imagery speak to you in familiar yet forgotten tongues, and guide you through the Beauty that is our Life, our History, and our Heritage!
Eihwaz ist ein Akustik und Folk Musik Projekt, welches im Winter 2006/07, von Anwend (Der ewige Wanderer, Waldweg) gegründet worden ist.
Die Eihwaz-Rune wird in Verbindung gebracht mit der Weltenesche Yggdrasil und gilt als der Geist unseres Daseins. Es ist ein sehr folkiges Konzept, es symbolisiert den Geist des Feuers, unserer selbst und unserer Rasse – das Blut, das unaufhörlich mit Kraft und Stärke durch die wahren Heiden fließt. Wie die Nornen sich um Yggdrasil kümmern, so pflegen sie auch unser Schicksal. Ich grüße die, die mich zudem gemacht haben was ich bin. Ohne sie, ohne die Entdeckung von ihnen und dem Schicksal, das sie für mich bereithalten, würde ich nicht das sein was ich heute bin und dieses Projekt würde nicht existieren. Heil den Göttern unseres Glaubens! Heil Wyrd und den Nornen! Heil den Waldgeistern! Heil all den Elfen und Feen! Möget ihr alle diese Weihung hören!

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Member Since: 4/5/2007
Band Members: Anwend- All instruments, vocals, lyrics
Influences: Odinism, Folk, Ancestral Faith, Spirit, Fellowshipping, Meditation, Craftwork, Nature, The Seasons, Sol, Mani, rustling of leaves in the Wind, Flow of streams, sounds of Nature.

The Influences for Eihwaz are composed of my inner feelings and connection with my Life experiences and the Natural environment both around me and off in distant Ancestral Lands. My Spiritual experiences make up the most of my influences, from Fellowshipping with my Hearth Brothers and Sisters, to My work in crafts from Woodburning to Blacksmithing. All of these aspects are very influential in my Life and thus in my Music, and I am as well very influenced by the Gods and Goddesses of our Faith and feel their presesnces very Strongly throughout the Seasons.
Sounds Like: Conveying of the Ancestral Folk Spirit and Conscience as expressed through one of the most Spiritual mediums, which is Music. The sounds of Eihwaz are various with each song and the concept they are meant to portray. Will of Yggdrasil is a dawning of the Heathen Memory and the thought of our Heritage, the memory of times in which our Folk thrived in the environment and mind-set that was best for them, a time which is long gone but never to be forgotten. Songs which are commemorations of these times, of their memory, and at the same time; Hope!

I compose each song with a very deep yet Organic essence, trying to convey within the notes something deeper than just Music, something deeper than just instruments being played and language being sung! I try and feel that I convey the essence that I wish to convey within my songs, an essence that cannot be put into words and can only be expressed through the foundations of Music. Each song I write to me becomes to be a paradox as described above. There is that since of yearning, a since of sadness, yet at the same time a sense of Hope and of Joy and Light as the entire song comes together and unfolds its melodies. I hope to progress only in the Spirit that I put in my songs, and I don’t wish to create "technical" music in the idea of how many notes are played, but I always wish it to be "technical" in the sense that although the Melodies, parts, are Vocals are very Organic and Simple, that the atmosphere and feeling they create produces something unable to be put into words and that is something far more deep within our Spirituality than can be tapped into without Music.
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CD Update and Concepts!

For those of you who have known since its beginning or during the process, I was originally going to give my first release the title of "Will of Yggdrasil" which in fact I still am, only now will be p...
Posted by :EIHWAZ: on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:21:00 PST

Eihwaz - Live Performances

Dear Friends and Supporters, I am currently trying to compose more material, incorporating in Lyrics as well to add to the spirit of my Music. I am wanting to perform Eihwaz live, because after some p...
Posted by :EIHWAZ: on Sun, 04 May 2008 08:39:00 PST