Biography

Currently based between the Asker municipality (Norway) and Treviso (Italy), THE FROZEN AUTUMN was born in1993 in Turin (Italy) thanks to Diego Merletto, who had been already involved as a singer and keyboard player in several bands of the dark-wave local scene since 1987.The background inspiring Diego has been the music released by the British label 4AD in the '80, together with European cold-wave, especially the electronic one, belonging to the same era. Neverthless, since the issue of the first and only demo, "Oblivion", dating back to 1994, the sound of TFA (initially Diego's one-man band) immediately stood out for its original melodic frames and rigorous sound research amounting to dreaming-atmospherical tracks as well as danceable  songs reminding of 80's electronic wave, all style cornerstones to be found throughout the band's productions. In the same year, Diego decided to rely upon a guitarist for the live concerts that had soon been scheduled, even though he also decided to stay the sole and only mastermind as for TFA compositions: so did Claudio Brosio come into the picture. In 1995 the debut album "Pale Awakening" was released for the label Weisser Herbst: it contains "Oblivion" 6 tracks + 4 brand new tracks, among which the unforgettable piú "This Time", real dancefloor hit for this music genre lovers. During the same year the duo performed abroad for the first time at Die Insel, Berlin historic location situated on an isle of river Spree. This album got great feedback: even though it hadn't been massively promoted at all, sold over 5000 copies, a huge amount for a non-mainstream band at its debut on the market. 
Diego decided to leave W.H. for the Milan-based Eibon Rec., that released the band's second album "Fragments Of Memories" in Dec 1997, (featuring another outstanding track: "There's No Time To Recall"), a full-lenght that is everything but minimalistic, whose arrangements are generous, its harmonies rich, open, catchy. This album marked an increased interest for the artwork (made by the band itself) and the debut as a singer of a very young Froxeanne, not part of the band yet at that time. Several successful live gigs in Italy and Germany followed, climaxing in April 1998 at Tenax in Florence, Claudio's last concert with TFA.Immediately afterwards, Diego Merletto & Froxeanne (vocals and keyboards) conceive a side-project, named STATIC MOVEMENT. After 6 months of frantic co-writing work, "Visionary Landscapes" (Eibon Rec., March 1999) CD was born: 10 electronic jewels made with an Elka Synthex, a PPG Wave 2.2. and a S.C.I. Pro-One.This year marked the developement of another great passion of Diego's, videoart, (already massively expressed during TFA concerts by means of his evocative self-made background videos) by producing the black and white videoclip of the song "Nouvelle Vague" (track included in "VisionaryLandscapes"), released as a multimode cd-rom in 2001.Even though the duo has released only one album as STATIC MOVEMENT, this side-project experience was important because it laid the foundations for the so-called "electronic shift" of TFA, as witness as shown by their next release: "Emotional Screening Device" (Eibon 2002). Carachterized by driving electronic filigrees, in addition to catchy, dynamic rhythms, (as for the teaser "Is Everything Real?", whose videoclip was filmed later), as well as episodes of hypnotic instrumental electro. Several concerts followed, all arousing great interest, but particularly successful was the one taking place in Sept 2002 at the legendary "Paradiso" club in Amsterdam.In 2003 TFA broke their relationship with Eibon and begun the tormeted composition of their new album and made some collaborations with other artists. 
In 2004 the the band finally played live also outside Europe, namely in Chile and e in Peru, literarly sending the audience into a frenzy.The new album "Is Anybody There?" was finally released in Sep 2005 by Pandaimonium Rec., by Twilight Rec. and by Gravitator Rec."Is Anybody There?" is an ice-cold, styilistically flawless album, a never redundant "electro-chiselled" work: its essential, clean, almost graphic elegance, make it TFA least easy -listening release. Probably these features were the key to access one the most fascinating places in Eastern Europe: so did the duo lands in 2006 also in Russia for 2 unforgettable concerts in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. 
During the following 3 years, the duo collaborated with other artists not only for music works, but also for graphic layouts and videoart. At the end of 2007, the band rescinded the contract with Pandaimonium Rec. and in the same period they started to rely upon a live guitarist again. The band performed then in Itay and the Netherlands, then in 2008 took contact with Twilight Rec. again that in 2009 released 3 cd-digipack reprints (2 by TFA, and the SM album). During Autumn 2009, another live member got on board, for keyboards this time: The Count (from the electronic solo project Nabla Operator). With this 4-member-line-up, (which didn't last for long) most of the double DVD "Seen From Under Ice" (Twilight Rec., March 2010) were filmed. In December 2010, the first 10" vinyl is released: the EP "RALLENTEARS" featuring 4 brand new tracks, issued by the Italian label Calembour Rec. in 250 copies only, another chapter in their so peculiar music language they lately love to define "FROZEN WAVE" describing their ice-cold wave style.This new single songs are presented live on stage in Italy and in Brazil. On 30th Nov 2011 the band comes back with the long-awaited new full-length CD "CHIRALITY", released by Calembour Rec. and issued on 14th Feb 2012 also in North America by Metropolis Rec., enthousiastically welcomed by their following all over the world. In 2013,Calembour Rec. celebrated TFa's 20th anniversary by releasing the ltd. ed. digisleeve cd "Riding The Crest Of The Frozen Wave. A Tribute To TFA" and went back to the original duo line-up.

In Dec 2014 a new EP "LIE IN WAIT" was issued by Calembour Rec.

On Feb 2016 a little "Best Of" compilation featuring tracks from 1994-2002 was release on vinyl by the American label Dark Entires with the title "Time Is Just A Memory".

In November 2017 the latest full-length "The Fellow Traveller" was issued by Echozone-Soulfood and (in North America) once again by Metropolis Records

The band is currently working on new tracks.