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Datblygu - Cwm Gwagle 12'' vinyl

by Ankst Musik

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    A limited offer including both recent vinyl albums by Datblygu - Cwm Gwagle and Porwr Trallod / Cyfle i archebu dau albym diweddar Datblygu ar feinyl - Cwm Gwagle a Porwr Trallod

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TITLE- CWM GWAGLE ARTIST – DATBLYGU CATALOGUE NO – ANKST 151 FORMAT – 12’’ VINYL ALBUM (+ download card inc. bonus music) RELEASE DATE – AUGUST 29th Shellshock Distribution / PYST BARCODE - 5024545899818
‘Datblygu have only one thing in common with other Welsh bands and that is their shared use of the language, nothing else. Datblygu’s only message is a hope that you don’t choke whilst dancing and coughing in the ruins.‘ David R.Edwards 2020
‘Cwm Gwagle’ (‘Void Valley’) is the new Datblygu album created by David R.Edwards and Patricia Morgan and released by Ankst Musik Records this summer. Available initially as a limited edition physical 12’’ album (with bonus download material) before appearing on streaming and download sites two weeks later. This new collection follows on from the 2015 comeback collection ‘Porwr Trallod (Tribulation Browser), a Welsh Music Prize album of the Year nominee and a triumphant return for the band after a hiatus of nearly two decades.
Datblygu’s cultural impact and artistic legacy is already assured as trailblazing pioneers with their extraordinary back catalogue recorded in the 1980s and early 1990s (which includes the imperishable trilogy of albums Wyau(1988), Pyst(1990) and Libertino(1993)) and their fruitful relationship with the late John Peel. They are the band who have rightly been held up as ‘The Welsh Gospel’ (according to no less a fellow pioneer than Super Furry Animals front man Gruff Rhys) and the appearance of the extraordinary poetic visions collected in the grooves of Cwm Gwagle proves that they are still fearlessly leading from the front.
Recorded over a weekend mere weeks before the great lockdown with Cardiff producer Frank Naughton there seems to be a whole alternative uni-verse conjured up here for our delight. Songs work as signposts on our journey through this far from green and pleasant valley. Some of the tales are humorous (of the dark kind!) others are seemingly personal recollections built from real painful memories (Cariad Ceredigion), whilst others are pure fabula (Ffon Bagal Dyffryn Cwnin), surreal fictions that couldn’t possibly have occurred (or could they?). Some tracks happily exist as pure attitude and primal disgust (Cymryd y Cyfan) next to quiet laments for lost causes and dreams that are in David’s own words - Ugly Hymns from St Fag-end – and sometimes all we have is a single voice too quiet to be heard over the wailing sirens in the street. (1 2 3 Dim Byd)
They may share the language with other bands from Wales but they sure don’t use it in the same way. David’s words have simplified over the years and are digging much deeper into the world of pure poetic imagery, creating vision, sounds and rhythms that hit hard and so also has the music being provided by Patricia Morgan – no waste, no diversions, only structure, atmosphere, feelings and support telepathically woven into the music. Very little of what you hear here owes its existence to anyone else, it is for us, from Dave and Pat, but always at a price, as Dave gnomically warns on ‘Y Coleg Abnormal’ –‘ as the grass is always greener on the dark side of the moon, don’t end up penniless, heaving blood into the spittoon’. Sometimes Cwm Gwagle is a dark vision but always a human and real one, never too far away from cracking a smile – it does also contain the funniest line Datblygu have ever recorded ( ‘Ok,Ie’). So in 2020 as the world wobbles we have a new Datblygu album to enjoy and treasure, one that is stuffed with poetic brilliance, like the skewering of optimism revealed in my choice for the chorus of the year, 2020 defined - ‘Un, Dau, Tri,- Dim Byd’ . Genius. The album is preceded by the digital only release of the double A sided single Cymryd y Cyfan (Take it All) / Y Purdeb Noeth (The Naked Purity) on Friday August 7th through PYST Info emyr@ankst.co.uk @ankstmusik
TEITL - CWM GWAGLE ARTIST – DATBLYGU RHIF CATALOG – ANKST 151 FFORMAT – 12’’ FEINYL ALBUM (+ cerdyn llawrlwytho) DYDDIAD RHYDDHAU – AWST 29th - Shellshock Distribution / PYST BARCODE - 5024545899818
‘Cwm Gwagle (Cytseinedd Twba Jones-Pryddest) : Fel Elon Musc ar noson o Fai hir felyn tesog ond mae yna ambell i awgrym o’r hen hwgr grawthog. Straen straeon byr ac ambell i gan tu allan i’r traddodiad roc a phop Cymraeg. Yr unig beth sydd gan Datblygu yn gyffredin gyda grwpiau Cymraeg eraill yw ein bod yn rhannu yr iaith ond bron dim byd aral. Peidiwch da chi tagu ar eich peswch tra yn dawnsio yn eich blerwch. David R.Edwards (Mehefin 2020)
Braint gan Ankstmusik yw cyhoeddi fod ‘Cwm Gwagle’ - albym newydd Datblygu (David R.Edwards a Patricia Morgan) ar fin cael ei rhyddhau. Mi fydd hi ar gael fel albwm feinyl cyfyngedig 12’ gyda deunydd bonws i lawrlwytho ar Awst 28ain cyn ymddangos ar wefannau ffrydio / lawrlwytho bythefnos yn ddiweddarach ar Fedi’r11fed.
Mae’r casgliad newydd yn dilyn ymddangosiad ‘Porwr Trallod (Tribulation Browser), a enwebwyd ar gyfer gwobr Welsh Music Prize nol yn 2015. Mae effaith Datblygu ar ddiwylliant Cymru yn enfawr gyda cerddoriaeth y band o’r 80au a’r 90au, yn enwedig yr albyms Wyau (1988), Pyst (1990) a Libertino (1993) yn glasuron; hefyd eu cyfeillgarwch gyda John Peel a’u dylanwad yn gyffredinol, (yn ôl arloeswr Cymraeg arall , Grudd Rhys, fel – ‘y gospel Cymraeg’ ) ar y sin yn dyst i rôl allweddol y band yn natblygiad y diwylliant poblogaidd Cymraeg yn yr oes fodern.
Mi fydd profi’r gweledigaethau barddonol rhyfeddol a gasglwyd yn ‘grooves’ Cwm Gwagle yn cynnig mwy o dystoliaeth fod y grŵp yn dal i arwain yn ddi-ofn o'r blaen. Wedi'i recordio dros benwythnos jest cyn y cloi mawr gyda’r cynhyrchydd Frank Naughton, lawr yng Nghaerdydd mae'n ymddangos fod yr albym yn wahoddiad i fentro i fewn i fyd arbennig iawn. Mae’r caneuon yn gweithio fel arwyddbyst ar ein taith trwy ddyffryn sy’n bell o fod yn un gwyrdd a dymunol. Mae rhai o'r straeon yn ddoniol (o'r math tywyll!) Mae eraill yn atgofion personol (Cariad Ceredigion), tra bod eraill yn fabula pur (Ffon Bagal Dyffryn Cwnin). Mae rhai traciau yn egnïol a llawn agwedd cyntefig (Cymryd y Cyfan) ac eraill yn olrhain breuddwydion coll sydd yng ngeiriau David ei hun, yn brwydro’r emynau Hyll o San Ffag-end - ac weithiau'r cyfan sydd gennym i gydio ynddi yw llais un dyn yn cwffio i gael ei glywed dros y sirens sy’n wylo yn y stryd. (1 2 3 Dim Byd)

Mae geiriau caneuon David wedi symleiddio dros y blynyddoedd ac yn cloddio'n llawer dyfnach i fyd delweddaeth farddonol bur, gan greu gweledigaeth, synau a rhythmau sy'n taro'n galed ac felly hefyd y gerddoriaeth gan Patricia Morgan - dim gwastraff, dim dargyfeiriadau, dim ond strwythur, awyrgylch, teimladau a chefnogaeth wedi'u plethu'n telepathic i'r gerddoriaeth. Weithiau mae Cwm Gwagle yn cynnig darlun tywyll ond bob amser yn un dynol a real, a byth yn rhy bell i ffwrdd o gracio gwên – mae’r albym hefyd yn cynnwys y llinell fwyaf doniol i Datblygu ei recordio erioed (‘Ok, Ie’).
Mi fydd y sengl Cymryd y Cyfan / Y Purdeb Noeth ddydd Gwener Awst 7fed trwy PYST
@ankstmusik emyr@ankst.co.uk

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released January 3, 2021

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