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.