| CROESO Croeso i Pedair Awr yng Nghymru Fydd, detholiad personol o'r gerddoriaeth newydd orau sydd yn cael ei chynhyrchu ar hyn o bryd gan gerddorion arbrofol Gwlad y Gân. Er bod llawer iawn o gerddoriaeth Gymreig wedi ennill sylw a chlod yn rhyngwladol, ychydig iawn o sylw fu yna hyd yn hyn i feysydd mwy arbrofol neu heriol – ac i'r cerddorion hynny sydd yn torri'r rheolau arferol neu, yn fwy diddorol efallai, yn llwyr anymwybodol o'r rheolau hynny. Mae yma gryn amrywiaeth: o nodau bariton gitâr Chuch i recordiadau amgylcheddol Eirwyn Llwyd Roberts; o sŵn digyfaddawd Stereo Minus One, Rose Heyworth ac Edwin Pang i brydferthwch cyfareddol deuawd Angharad a Rhodri Davies i'r ffidil a'r delyn. Nid chwilio 'Cymreictod' fel y cyfryw yw'r bwriad, nac archwilio cysylltiadau rhwng sain a thir – mae'r nod yn fwy syml o lawer: rhoi llwyfan i gerddoriaeth na fyddwch chi'n gyfarwydd â hi; rhoi ychydig o sylw i'r bodau creadigol hynny sydd yn creu cerddoriaeth er eu mwyn eu hunain yn y lle cyntaf – a dangos bod yna lawer iawn i'w ddathlu yn y Gymru hon sydd ohoni. Y gobaith yw y byddwch chi'n mwynhau'r gwrando cymaint ag y gwaeth y cerddorion fwynhau'r creu. Ac os byddwch chi'n hoffi tipyn o'r hyn glywch chi, yr ewch chi ati i ddod o hyd i fwy. Mae'r casgliad hwn yn bell o fod yn derfynol; mae hi'n hollol debygol bod yna lond gwlad arall o gerddoriaeth yn aros i gael ei darganfod. |
WELCOME Welcome to Brave New Wales, a personal selection of the best new music being made under the radar and off the grid by musicians from and/or living in the Land Of Song. Despite many areas of Welsh music being celebrated and well documented, little publicity has so far been given to the more experimental or challenging avenues being pursued by the rule breakers, or perhaps more interestingly, those blissfully unaware of the rules in the first place. There's great variety here: from the murky baritone guitar smears of Chuch to the environmental recordings of Eirwyn Llwyd Roberts; from the brick-in-the-face noise of Stereo Minus One, Rose Heyworth and Edwin Pang to the strange beauty of Angharad and Rhodri Davies' violin and harp improvisations. We make no attempt to search for Welshness within the music, or to investigate parallels between land and sound - our intention is more simple: to showcase music that you are unlikely to have heard before; to give recognition to the creative souls tucked away in bedrooms and studios (and forests) up and down the land making music primarily for their own pleasure, and to show that in this tiny and bewitching country of only 3 million people, there's much to celebrate. We hope you enjoy listening as much as the contributors enjoyed making. And if you like what you hear, spend some time seeking out more. This is a far from comprehensive survey; there are likely volumes more material as yet undiscovered. Finally, if you're making strange and wonderful music, feel you should have been included but weren't, get in touch. There's always Volume 2... |