ANKSTMUSIK cd 085

Title - HEN DAID BRAN A STRAEON ERAILL

(GREAT GRANDFATHER CROW AND OTHER TALES.)

Artist - RHEINALLT H.ROWLANDS

Format - CD ONLY

Tracks

1. - HENDAID BRAN - Great Grandfather Crow - from the myths and

mists of time . The tale of a mythical eco warrior

• - MARWNAD #1:MAE ‘O’ WEDI MYND - Elegy #1: ‘O’ Has

Gone. A tribute to Roy Orbison .

3. - ETHIOPIA NEWYDD - New Ethiopia .Written and recorded

originally by Geraint Jarman .Past and future , hopes and aspirations .

4. - PETHAU -Things. There was a time when I had a life , but now I’m

running , running to the next place .Subsequently recorded by

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci .

5. - UN NOS YN ‘LITTLE VENICE’ - One night in Little Venice .An

instrumental .

6. - Y DRE CHWAREL - The Quarry Town .Rural-industrial decay ,and

the rain keeps falling . ‘Mr. Thomas it’s like the Somme’

• - SIMONE - A sweet love song , with a twist in the tale .
• - YAKUB BEG - Not so much a song , more a 3-D aural wonderland

in full, glorious , textured , Cinemascope technicolour .

9. - HEN DAID BRAN:ATBREIS - Great Grandfather Crow(reprise)

Am y tro cyntaf ar c.d , HEN DAID BRAN , sef record hir cyntaf y grwp Rheinallt H.Rowlands .Yn wreiddiol ymddangosodd y casgliad yma yn 1993 ar label recordio CENTRAL SLATE .

Anktmusik are proud to announce the cd re issue of the debut album by Rheinallt H.Rowlands . ‘HEN DAID BRAN’ first appeared in 1993 on the CENTRAL SLATE label on cassette only. Rheinallt’s appearance with this debut was shrouded in mystery whereby the band members adopted an elaborate charade based upon a bogus personality henceforth known as Rheinallt H.Rowlands . This continued until 1995 when Rheinallt broke cover and appeared with GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI , playing live with them and appearing on their legendary BWYD TIME album .This resulted in a record deal with Ankst Records which led to the release of the very highly acclaimed second l.p. BUKOWSKI in 1996. The band members are OWAIN WRIGHT(Known as OZ , singing) and DEWI EVANS (orchestral arranger/conductor) with a little help from all round top Welsh producer ALAN HOLMES (from ECTOGRAM) .

HEN DAID BRAN still retains its unique freshness .Nobody had heard anything like this before(or since) . As Nia Melville notes in her introduction to the c.d. "Back in 1991 there was a long list of exciting talent in Wales - Datblygu , Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci , Ffa Coffi Pawb ,Y Cyrff to name a few , and yet Rheinallt H.Rowlands still managed to stand out . The massive voice with a backing which could range from an intense orchestra to the lightest string quartet . I’m still amazed how fresh it sounds six years down the line’.