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AMGEN 010
Laura Cannell / Brìghde Chaimbeul / Richard Dawson / Jem Finer / Ko Ishikawa / Angharad Jenkins / C Joynes / Ceri Rhys Matthews / Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh / Aidan O’Rourke / Llio Rhydderch / Orphy Robinson / Pat Thomas / Phil Tyler / Stevie Wishart / C. Spencer Yeh
1. Laura Cannell: The Tattered Skies Above
2. Orphy Robinson: Nude, Lewd, Rude, Mood Food
3. Jem Finer: Y Geseg Fedi Hedi Gedi
4. Ko Ishikawa: Ama no Hatofune
5. Phil Tyler: Arthur’s Stone
6. Stevie Wishart: Rhywbeth arall
7. C. Spencer Yeh: AADDFFDDAA
8. Richard Dawson: A Garden Farewell
9. Brìghde Chaimbeul: Sealbh an Fhortain air an Each Bhuidhe
10. Aidan O’Rourke: Ceann an druim
11. Pat Thomas: Maddad
12. C Joynes: Triban Kill Reddin
13. Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh: Éirí, a leibide
14. C Joynes: Diegan Trore Ebil
15. Ceri Rhys Matthews: Geufron / Glennydd Y Rheidol / Gwers Dafi
16. Angharad Jenkins: Llonyddwch yr Hydref
17. Laura Cannell: A Horse Head for Luck
18. Llio Rhydderch: Morluniau o fy Ffenest
1. Laura Cannell: The Tattered Skies Above
Recorders dwbl - soprano y dadeni a threbl modern / Double recorders - renaissance soprano & modern treble
Recordiwyd ar y 26ain o Fedi 2022, gan Laura Cannell yn Stiwdio Magitumbus, Suffolk.
Recorded on the 26th of September 2022, by Laura Cannell at Studio Magitumbus, Suffolk.
Recordiwyd ar y 7fed o Orffennaf 2023, gan Orphy Robinson yn Stiwdio Surely Bushey, Bushey.
Recorded on the 7th of July 2023, by Orphy Robinson at Surely Bushey Studios, Bushey.
Recordiwyd ar y 15fed o Hydref 2022, gan Jem Finer yn Las Negras, Andalucia.
Recorded on the 15th of October 2022, by Jem Finer at Las Negras, Andalucia.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Y Gaseg Fedi
4. Ko Ishikawa: Ama no Hatofune
Sho / Sho
Recordiwyd ar y 10fed o Ragfyr 2022, gan Ko Ishikawa yn ei gartref, Tokyo.
Recorded on the 10th of December 2022, by Ko Ishikawa at his house, Tokyo.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Angharat Ton Uelen
5. Phil Tyler: Arthur’s Stone
Banjo, ffidl, piano a thraed / Banjo, fiddle, piano and feet
Recordiwyd ar y 13eg o Dachwedd 2021, gan Phil Tyler yn y gegin, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Recorded on the 13th of November 2021, by Phil Tyler in the kitchen, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Maen Ceti
6. Stevie Wishart - Rhywbeth arall
Hyrdi-gyrdi / Hurdy-gurdy
Recordiwyd ar yr 2il o Orffennaf 2017, gan Tony Faulkner, Eglwys Sant Botolph, Culpho, Suffolk. Wedi'i olygu a'i gymysgu Ebrill 2023. Gyda diolch i Christine Pearce a Carlford Benefice.
Recorded on the 2nd of July 2017, by Tony Faulkner, St Botolph’s Church, Culpho, Suffolk. Edited and mixed April 2023. With thanks to Christine Pearce and the Carlford Benefice.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Rhywbeth
7. C. Spencer Yeh: AADDFFDDAA
Cyfrifiadur a llygoden / Computer and mouse
Recordiwyd ar y 5ed o Awst 2023, gan C. Spencer Yeh, Ridgewood, Queens, Efrog Newydd.
Recorded on the 5th of August 2023, by C. Spencer Yeh, Ridgewood, Queens, New York.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Afon Dewi Fawr
8. Richard Dawson: A Garden Farewell
Gitâr / Guitar
Recordiwyd ar 28ain o Ionawr 2022, gan Richard Dawson yn ei gartref yn Nyffryn Tyne.
Recorded on the 28th of January 2022, by Richard Dawson at home in the Tyne Valley.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Ffarwel Arddol
9. Brìghde Chaimbeul: Sealbh an Fhortain air an Each Bhuidhe
Pibau bach Albanaidd / Scottish smallpipes
Recordiwyd ar y 27ain o Dachwedd 2022, gan Brìghde Chaimbeul yn Belfast.
Recorded on the 27th of November 2022, by Brìghde Chaimbeul in Belfast.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Lwc i’r Ceffyl Melyn
10. Aidan O’Rourke: Ceann an druim
Ffidl / Fiddle
Recordiwyd ar y 12fed o Ebrill 2022, gan Aidan O'Rourke yn ei gartref, Caeredin.
Recorded on the 12th of April 2022, by Aidan O'Rourke at home, Edinburgh.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Pengribyn
11. Pat Thomas: Maddad
Electroneg / Electronics
Recordiwyd ar yr 2il o Chwefror 2023, gan Pat Thomas yn Stiwdio Urban Sufi, Rhydychen.
Recorded on the 2nd of February 2023, by Pat Thomas at Urban Sufi Studio, Oxford.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Cwrt Malle
12. C Joynes: Triban Kill Reddin
Gitâr / Guitar
Recordiwyd ar y 23ain o Fawrth 2022, gan Stuart Gillan yn Stiwdio Scabby Toad, Impington.
Recorded on the 23rd of March 2022, by Stuart Gillan at Scabby Toad Studios, Impington.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Triban Cilrhedyn
13. Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh: Éirí, a leibide
Fiola / Viola
Recordiwyd ar y 25ain o Chwefror 2022, gan Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh yn ei chartref yn Govan, Glasgow.
Recorded on the 25th of February 2022, by Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh at her home in Govan, Glasgow.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Waunceiliogau
14. C Joynes: Diegan Trore Ebil
Gitâr / Guitar
Recordiwyd ar y 23ain o Fawrth 2022, gan Stuart Gillan yn Stiwdio Scabby Toad, Impington.
Recorded on the 23rd of March 2022, by Stuart Gillan at Scabby Toad Studios, Impington.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Dygan tro’r Ebill
15. Ceri Rhys Matthews: Geufron / Glennydd Y Rheidol / Gwers Dafi
Ffliwt gyngerdd bren / Wooden concert flute
Recordiwyd ar y 26ain o Fehefin 2023, gan Peter Stacey yn Stiwdio Peter Stacey, Pontsian, Ceredigion.
Recorded on the 26th of June 2023, by Peter Stacey at Stiwdio Peter Stacey, Pontsian, Ceredigion.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Erddigan Gwawr
16. Angharad Jenkins: Llonyddwch yr Hydref
Ffidlau / Fiddles
Recordiwyd ar y 6fed o Hydref 2022, gan Angharad Jenkins yn Stiwdio Rosehill, Abertawe.
Recorded on the 6th of October 2022, by Angharad Jenkins at Stiwdio Rosehill, Abertawe.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Gorhoffedd Rhisiart
17. Laura Cannell: A Horse Head for Luck
Recorder Tenor / Tenor Recorder
Recordiwyd ar y 26ain o Fedi 2022, gan Laura Cannell yn Stiwdio Magitumbus, Suffolk.
Recorded on the 26th of September 2022, by Laura Cannell at Studio Magitumbus, Suffolk.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Penglog Ceffyl
18. Llio Rhydderch: Morluniau o fy Ffenest
Telyn deires / Triple harp
Recordiwyd ar yr 11eg o Fawrth 2022, gan Aled Wyn Huws yn Marian Glas, Ynys Môn.
Recorded on the 11th of March 2022, by Aled Wyn Huws at Marian Glas, Ynys Môn.
Gwreiddiol / Original: Y Dôn Newydd
Darlun gan / Drawing by Jean-Luc Guionnet.
Dylunio gan / Design by Anna Peaker.
Ôl-gynhyrchwyd gan / Mastered by Sam Grant.
Includes unlimited streaming of Creiriau y Delyn Rawn / Relics of the Horsehair Harp
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“Ceisied pob prentis cyson
O fars tir Lloegr i Fôn
Telyn eirian i’w chanu
I rannu dysg o rawn du”
“Let every true apprentice
from the march of the land of England to Môn
seek a bright harp of black horsehair
to play and spread learning”
Iolo Goch (14eg ganrif / 14th century)
Creiriau y Delyn Rawn
Mae’r casgliad hwn yn ddarn cymar i fy albwm ‘Telyn Rawn’ AMGEN 001 (2020). Rwyf wedi gwahodd rhai o fy hoff gerddorion i ymateb i ddeunaw o ddarnau byrfyfyr ar ‘Telyn Rawn’. Gofynnais i bob cyfrannwr ddychmygu bod y deunydd cerddorol byrfyfyr yn 2020 yn ffurf gerddorol hynafol a oedd wedi bodoli’n llawn yn y cyfnod canoloesol, a bod pob un o’u hymatebion wedi digwydd ganrifoedd ar ôl ffurfiad dychmygedig darnau ‘Telyn Rawn’.
Mae’r albwm hwn felly yn cynnig repertoire dychmygedig newydd sy’n dod i’r amlwg o offeryn sydd eisoes wedi’i adeiladu’n fyfyrgar a repertoire a ail-ddychmygwyd yn yr un modd. Fel y dywed y gitarydd C Joynes, mae’r ymatebion creadigol hyn yn cynnig math o ymagwedd ‘ffuglen fyfyrgar’ i’r deunydd ffynhonnell. Ar y pwynt y bydd y gerddoriaeth hon yn eich cyrraedd, bydd wedi’i hidlo drwy gyfnodau dychmygedig o amser, amrywiaeth o ieithoedd a hanes cerddorol, ac wedi’i sianelu drwy ecolegau ffuglennol cerddorion, lleoliadau ac offeryniaeth.
Mae’r teitl a roddwyd i’r albwm hwn o hanes cerddorol dychmygedig, ‘Creiriau y Delyn Rawn’, wedi’i ysbrydoli gan y teitl a roddodd Edward Jones i’w lawysgrif ‘Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of the Welsh Bards and Druids’ (1802), teitl yr wyf wedi ei garu erioed.
Rhodri Davies, Abertawe
Relics of the Horsehair harp
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.
Rhodri Davies, Abertawe
credits
released March 23, 2024
Darlun gan / Drawing by Jean-Luc Guionnet.
Dylunio gan / Design by Anna Peaker.
Ôl-gynhyrchwyd gan / Mastered by Sam Grant.
Diolch i’r cerddorion i gyd, Ffion Emyr Bourton, Fflach, Richard Dawson a Llio Rhydderch.
Thank you to all the musicians, Ffion Emyr Bourton, Fflach, Richard Dawson and Llio Rhydderch.
Rhodri Davies plays harp, electric harp, live-electronics and builds wind, water, ice, dry ice and fire harp installations.
He has released seven solo albums. His regular groups include: HEN OGLEDD, a duo with John Butcher, Cranc, The Sealed Knot and Common Objects....more
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