Rhodri Davies - Relics of the Horsehair Harp '2024

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"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 

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)

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