It's happening now!

Only a couple of tracks again in 2024, although we did manage to squeeze in another collaboration with Deena Shoshkes again on "Somehow"!

Another good year in 2023, seven more tracks, including another nice collaboration on "Old Town" with the excellent Deena Shoshkes. "Ember" is also a pretty solid instrumental piece.

We got a bit back on track in 2022, finishing 7 pieces of music. "Open Road" is a nice anthemic epic instrumental.

Notice the lack of 2020? Lots was going on our lives that year, so we didn't even manage to participate - we did try a few tracks but never finished anything. At least we managed to finish a couple of fairly short instrumental pieces in 2021.

Ten tracks for 2019, a productive year! Tried a bit more singing again, and I think it went better here and there, "Back of My Mind" still holds up reasonably well. No collaborations this year though!

2018 brought another collaboration with Deena Shoshkes on "Breaking Apart", and we managed a few other tracks, but not quite as many as 2017. I think "Outside of Time" has some potential as an instrumental still!

2017 marked the 8th successive year that we had participated in FAWM.

We managed two collaborations with great singers this year, "Scrivener" with Mike Debenham and "Second Nature" (a personal favourite) with Deena Shoshkes contributing lyrics and vocals.

This is a new record for us! Eleven finished songs, and it's probably our most polished FAWM album to date... enjoy!

We went from lowest track count to highest track count in 2016! This was our strongest FAWM showing up till that point - we finished 9 tracks at a decent quality with acceptable mixes, and covered quite a range of styles too. Fun times!

Something must have happened in 2015 - 7th year FAWMing, and we only got two tracks done. For shame! Fortunately, I think "Forever" turned out to be one of the more memorable instrumentals so far.

The sixth year of FAWM was difficult for the Fort. We only managed three tracks, and although the quality was solid, it was our least productive February yet.

Half a decade! This was the year of our first official collaboration, when the talented Mike Debenham lent his voice to "Monsoon". It also has one of the more memorable Fort Elmfield FAWM tracks in "They're Genetic!", which I still quite like.

FAWM number four! I think this was the year I invested in Superior Drummer and put a bit more effort into mixing and mastering. Some more bad singing on a few tracks here, but arguably better than 2011.

Third year FAWMing. This time I started singing (badly), and our friend Tiffany sang on a couple of tracks too! Again using FL Studio and EZ Drummer for drums. Still haven't learned anything about better mixes...

The second year for FAWM. All instrumentals, again using FL Studio and EZDrummer for drums. Mixes are still mostly quite bad.

The first year we did February Album Writing Month. All instrumentals, using FL Studio and EZDrummer for drums. Mixes are mostly quite bad.