Welsh trio ALAW make a welcome return in February 2022 with a new lineup and album titled Drawn to the Light. Listen to two beautiful new tracks from their upcoming single – Hiraeth and Fill the House.
With Dead Man’s Dance (Dawns y Gŵr Marw) ALAW have not only created an impressive follow up to their 2013 debut, they’ve surpassed the brilliance of Melody with an even more invigorating, wider-ranging exploration of Welsh poetic and musical traditions. It is an inspired and unique album.
March Glas is a great debut album for Elfen, not least in being well representative not only of the special interpersonal “connection” that clearly exists between the band members but also of the trio’s high degree of instrumental and vocal inventiveness.
Welsh band Ffynnon’s latest offering ‘Llongau’, while eminently listenable and accessible, is unique enough to single-handedly and significantly raise the profile of Welsh folk music.
Rachel Taylor-Beales fourth studio album ‘Stone’s Throw, Lament of The Selkie’ takes the form of a kind of song-cycle. Some three years in the making it is masterfully conceived and presented with imagery that is both precise and tantalising in its expression. An exceptional album.
Beneath the surface of Dylan Fowler’s harp-like approach to guitar on ‘A Passionate Landscape’, there’s a highly complex mix of influences that span time, traditions and the globe. A wonderful & remarkable album.
In partnership with EFDSS and trac, the Welsh folk development agency, enjoy the very best of traditional and contemporary Welsh folk dance and song at Cecil Sharp House on March 10th
