Rhodri Davies - Relics of the Horsehair Harp (2024) [Hi-Res]
Artist: Rhodri Davies, Various Artists
Title: Relics of the Horsehair Harp
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Amgen
Genre: Folk, Experimental, Celtic
Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
Total Time: 53 min
Total Size: 267; 534 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
"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. Title: Relics of the Horsehair Harp
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Amgen
Genre: Folk, Experimental, Celtic
Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
Total Time: 53 min
Total Size: 267; 534 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
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
Tracklist:
1.01 - Rhodri Davies, Laura Cannell - The Tattered Skies Above (2:48)
1.02 - Rhodri Davies, Orphy Robinson - Nude, Lewd, Rude, Mood Food (2:37)
1.03 - Rhodri Davies, Jem Finer - Y Geseg Fedi Hedi Gedi (2:15)
1.04 - Rhodri Davies, Ko Ishikawa - Ama no Hatofune (4:17)
1.05 - Rhodri Davies, Phil Tyler - Arthur's Stone (2:17)
1.06 - Rhodri Davies, Stevie Wishart - Rhywbeth arall (1:50)
1.07 - Rhodri Davies, C. Spencer Yeh - AADDFFDDAA (1:42)
1.08 - Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson - A Garden Farewell (7:29)
1.09 - Rhodri Davies, Brighde Chaimbeul - Sealbh an Fhortain air an Each Bhuidhe (2:18)
1.10 - Rhodri Davies, Aidan O'Rourke - Ceann an druim (3:38)
1.11 - Rhodri Davies, Pat Thomas - Maddad (2:08)
1.12 - Rhodri Davies, C Joynes - Triban Kill Reddin (1:54)
1.13 - Rhodri Davies, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh - Éirí, a leibide (2:39)
1.14 - Rhodri Davies, C Joynes - Diegan Trore Ebil (3:35)
1.15 - Rhodri Davies, Ceri Rhys Matthews - Geufron / Glennydd Y Rheidol / Gwers Dafi (2:49)
1.16 - Rhodri Davies, Angharad Jenkins - Llonyddwch yr Hydref (3:41)
1.17 - Rhodri Davies, Laura Cannell - A Horse Head for Luck (2:09)
1.18 - Rhodri Davies, Llio Rhydderch - Morluniau o fy Ffenest (3:50)