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Experimental, acoustic, folk, improvisation, medieval folk, Swansea.

This collection is a companion piece to my solo album ‘Telyn Rawn’ AMGEN 001 (2020). I have invited some of my favourite musicians to respond to the eighteen improvised pieces on ‘Telyn Rawn’. I asked each contributor to imagine that the musical material improvised in 2020 was an ancient musical form that had fully existed in the medieval period, and, that each of their responses were to have happened centuries after the imagined formation of the ‘Telyn Rawn’ pieces.

This album therefore proposes a new imagined repertoire that emerges from an already speculatively built instrument and equally re-imagined repertoire. As guitarist C Joynes comments, these creative responses offer a kind of ‘speculative fiction’ approach to the source material. At the point where this music reaches you, it has been filtered through imagined passages of time, various musical languages and histories, and channelled through the fictional ecologies of musicians, locations and instrumentation.

The title given to this album of imaginary musical histories, ‘Creiriau y Delyn Rawn’ or ‘Relics of the Horsehair harp’, is inspired by the title Edward Jones gave to his manuscript ‘Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of the Welsh Bards and Druids’ (1802), a title I have always loved.

Tracks:

01. The Tattered Skies Above
02. Nude, Lewd, Rude, Mood Food
03. Y Geseg Fedi Hedi Gedi
04. Ama no Hatofune
05. Arthur's Stone
06. Rhywbeth arall
07. AADDFFDDAA
08. A Garden Farewell
09. Sealbh an Fhortain air an Each Bhuidhe
10. Ceann an druim
11. Maddad
12. Triban Kill Reddin
13. Éirí, a leibide
14. Diegan Trore Ebil
15. Geufron  Glennydd Y Rheidol  Gwers Dafi
16. Llonyddwch yr Hydref
17. A Horse Head for Luck
18. Morluniau o fy Ffenest

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.