New Music: I Had A Baby Not A Lobotomy

           

The Welsh multi-instrumentalist and producer The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies) announces her brand new single, "I Had a Baby, Not A Lobotomy" from her forthcoming third studio album, A"s We Once Were". Davies describes the track: "a tongue in cheek litany of all the stupid things people said to me when I had a baby". Propelled by a litany of lyrical barbs, she calls it an anthem for anyone who has ever been written off for daring to procreate.  The single also features guest vocals from Mercury Music Prize nominated Welsh-Cornish musician Gwenno. 
The video has been directed by JJ Eringa.

New Music: Y Gath

           

With her new album Utopia due out July 11 via Heavenly Recordings, the Welsh superstar and former Mercury nominee Gwenno shares her new single "Y Gath" (The Cat) alongside a stylish video in which she's seen exploring her feline side, featuring Cate Le Bon and H.Hawkline. A hazy and glorious Cymraeg paean to the cat and the grimy city walls that surround them, the single sounds like spectral feline poetry being delivered at a midnight pagan gathering. Commenting on the track Gwenno says: "Y Gath" means The Cat. I just don't know how I feel about cats, you know? But I also think it's because I am a cat in many ways. I see myself in these creatures and I’m part envious, part disgusted by them. So it’s a song about cats and birds nodding at you, and the style of the song evolved quite naturally into something very familiar and Welsh. And then when I asked H Hawkline and Cate Le Bon to be on it, it just made complete sense. We all knew what it needed to be, because we’ve all grown up on S4C and 70s psychedelic rock music, and Welsh language music. So we didn’t need to have a big conversation, we just know what this is about.

New Music: War

           

Welsh musician Gwenno is releasing a new album, Utopia, on July 11 via Heavenly. Now she has shared its second single, "War,". The song is inspired by a World War II-era poem by Welsh artist and poet Edrica Huws entitled "Vingt-Et-Un." Saunders had this to say about the song in a press release: "I’ve loved this Edrica Huws poem for a really long time. She was an artist and poet, and she wrote this at the start of the Second World War. It kept resonating with me over this period where we've really normalized the idea of war, and actually at times have perhaps been quite enthusiastic from our sofas. I think her poem is really worth something in an age where we’re obviously tumbling towards something catastrophic. Those words have really reminded me of that very small window you have before it happens—the chance to be considerate, and more vigilant, and aware. It’s the elegance of her writing, the calmness of her writing, the wisdom." the video credits belongs to Clare Marie Bailey 

New Music: Dancing On Volcanoes

           

Having released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, "Utopia" is Gwenno Saunders' first album recorded predominantly in English, and presents a very different side to her life and songwriting.With "Dancing On Volcanoes, Gwenno says: I feel as if I've written a debut record, because it's a different language and it's a different part of my life. It's about that point where I go out into the world on my own, which people generally write about first, and then get on with their lives. But it's taken me so long to digest it — I needed 20 years just to make sense of things, and I realised the starting point of my creative life isn't Wales, it's actually North America."Dancing On Volcanoes" is heartbreakingly gorgeous, like a luxurious perfume gently hitting your senses and lingering a long time. 'Heartbreaking' because there's something so precious, fragile, and fleeting in that song, which really brings the feeling of dancing on something as hot and explosive as a volcano across.Video is under direction by Clare Marie Bailey and edited by Gwenno.

Primicia: Chwyldro

        

Curioso track que hasta ahorita hemos logrado conocer gracias a que Heavenly Recordings lo acaba de dar a conocer el pasado 24 de julio, se trata del tema "Chwyldro (Welsh for Revolution)" de la artista Gwenno, que viene en su disco debut "Y Dydd Olaf" y que fue lanzado a finales de octubre del año pasado, el video ha sido dirigido por Ian Watson y Hywel Evans