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KIM HON – Milkshek

Kim Hon has become an iconic anarchic Welsh band intent on creating havoc with a scene that has become complacent in recent times. Known throughout Wales for their high-energy gigs, the band have strived to take their Welsh Psych-rock to a wider audience, with melodies and sounds that sound as boundary-smashing as they do familiar. Recently featured on BBC Three’s Paranormal with Sian Eleri (BBC Radio 1 DJ). ‘Milkshake’ appears on the band’s self-titled debut album, released in November 2023 on Recordiau Côsh.

Atgof – Eryrod Meirion

Eryrod Meirion’s performance of their single, ‘Atgof’ (Memory).

Words: E. Prosser Rhys
Arrangement/Melody: Gavin Ashcroft
Harp; Dylan Cernyw
Sound Producer: Ifan Jones – Drwm
Video Producer: Dafydd Hughes – Amcan
Conducter: Branwen Williams
Location: Llangywer Village Hall

Modulate Last Shout Commissions

Last Shout For Six Of The Best

We are really pleased to announce that six new commissions have been allocated to six young disabled musicians from Disability Arts Cymru’s Modulate panel. The six chosen represent four songwriting/ recording projects, one video project and one podcasting project. Each of them will be addressing their experience of being a disabled creative in today’s society and their personal, sometimes painful, sometimes funny, experiences. They are all impressively accomplished young musicians and we can’t wait to see what they come up with.

Four of the projects will be showcased in a sharing event on 06/06/24 at 18:00 with BSL interpretation by Claire Anderson.

ANGHARAD – Motherland

Motherland is the opening track from Angharad’s debut record, also called Motherland.The album was released on 1st March 2024 via Libertino Records.

CARCHARDAI

Bocs, Wales Millennium Centre

25-28/4

12:00 – 16:00

| təʊl | R&D film

A new multidisciplinary work for percussive and immersive soundscape by John Meirion Rea.

A collaboration with Dame Evelyn Glennie.

Offerynnau Taro/Percussion: Dame Evelyn Glennie
Cymysgu Ymdrochol/Surround Mix: Stuart Jones
Camera: Huw Talfryn Walters and Mei Lewis
Golygu/Edit: Nic Finch
Dilynio/Design: Oliver Norcott
Cynhyrchydd/Producer: Chris Ricketts

Diolch/Thanks: Jon Gower, Jennifer Stoves, Brenda-Gillian, Cheryl Davis, Richard Paine/Faber Music, Chris Stock, Matt Nolan Custom, Marie Tueje, Sarah Featherstone.

Gyda chefnogaeth Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru
Supported by the Arts Council of Wales

PARADE

“The centre of the City is where the old monuments are, but not, for the most part, people’s lives…..” Guido Guidi.

PARADE: by John Meirion Rea

A stereo audio-visual interpretation taken from an original immersive multi-media installation, commissioned by Maindee Library, and The Arts Council of Wales.

My creative work is inspired by the voices of the people of Wales. My focus has been on the melodic nature, and textures of diverse dialects and languages; particularly our native Welsh and Anglo-Welsh dialects, and how they are mirrored in, and defined by our environment.

I spent time in Maindee, Newport, where I met and listened to people’s stories, alongside cinematographer and photographer Huw Talfryn Walters. Having got to know many of those who live, work and worship there, and capturing hours of film, interviews, and responding to its sounds, I presented this vérité material both as a site-specific immersive installation: a collective experience sited in the community; and as an online portal: a more intimate ‘one-to-one’ relationship.

The truths and realities that emerge, seen collectively, convey a strong sense of place, and what it means to belong, and the reality of living in urban South-East Wales. It is a snapshot of life in Maindee, as we encountered it in 2019.

CONCRÈTE: Site-Specific Installation and performance work.

An interview with John Rea.

Concrète is a site-specific sound and musical work, inspired by the theme of ‘Revolution’ as part of Ffotogallery’s Diffusion Festival, in 2017.

I created a surround, multi-room sound work, based on the introduction of noise into the world of music, inspired by the early work of the Futurists, and Constructivists, also the utopian ideals of the early makers of synthesizers in the eastern Block.

The work was introduced as a one-off performance celebrating noise and the origins of sounscape, utilising modular synthesizers, mainpulated spoken word, archival, and specially recorded elements, presented immersively, and as a site-specific installation work thereafter.

Atgyfodi (vb revive, vb resurrect). Arthur Morris Roberts and Capel Celyn.

A section from the Atgyfodi project featuring local field recordings from Tryweryn Valley, and an interview with local farmer Arthur Morris Roberts, who witnessed Capel Celyn being drowned as a young boy.

Atgyfodi combines live performance, film and sonic installation inspired by the sound and image archives of St Fagans National Museum of History. The work features the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Patrick Rimes and Cass Meurig on traditional Welsh instruments.

It was performed, alongside site-specific sound installations, in the Museum on October the 19th, 20th and 21st, 2018, also as part of Ffotogallery’s Sight & Sound themed Diffusion and Green Man Festivals in 2019.

The original version is an immersive work, mixed in 5.1 surround.

Atgyfodi (vb revive, vb resurrect). Tyrone O’Sullivan and Tower Colliery

Section of the work Atgyfodi, that features an interview with Tyrone O’Sullivan of the iconic Tower Colliery – a modern Welsh hero. In the interview he speaks very personally about how he recognized men in the darkness of the pits by their voices.

I combine field recorded abstract sound, with archive and interview in this section, alongside a composed response. It is combined with the original Welsh dialect of the South Wales Valleys ‘Y Wenhwyseg’, taken from a recording from the sound archive of The National Museum of Welsh History.

Atgyfodi combines live performance, film and sonic installation inspired by the sound and image archives of St Fagans National Museum of History. The work features the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and features Patrick Rimes and Cass Meurig on traditional Welsh instruments.

It was performed, alongside site-specific sound installations, in the Museum on October the 19th, 20th and 21st, 2018, also as part of Ffotogallery’s Sight & Sound themed Diffusion and Green Man Festivals in 2019.

Funded by The Arts Council of Wales, The PRS Foundation, and Ty Cerdd.

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John Meirion Rea

John is a composer and sound artist based in Cardiff. His work is deeply rooted in the culture and landscape of Wales, and in cross-cultural connections and collaborations. He is interested in reacting to place and community and searching for new multidisciplinary styles to present his work.

Gŵyl Rhuthun Festival 2024

Top of Town 2024 Lineup

Here’s the full Top of Town line up for this year! Who are you most excited to see? 

Saturday 29th of June

1pm-8pm

£5 (Children Free)

GRIEF

A feeling felt by many but spoken about by few.

GRIEF paints the picture of the pages and stages that we go through when encountering the many aspects that make up grief. Through original music composed by Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, movement choreographed and performed by Arnold Matsena, and spoken word written and performed by Connor Allen, GRIEF explores the impact of loss from the perspective of the body. It is an intimate, physical exploration of continually grappling with the residual energy and volatility of emotion that accompany grieving.

interbeing

interbeing, a term coined by Zen master and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, articulates the interconnected existence of all things. Drawing from this term, this project is an experimental operatic collage, offering provocations that explore humanity’s relationship with land and more specifically how our actions are impacting the environment. It suggests that everything exists in a state of interconnected being, interwoven and mutually dependent. Employing the physical connection between land and body as a visual and sonic motif, this opera serves both as a call to action and an offering.

Georgia Ruth – Driving Dreams

Driving Dreams, the new single by Georgia Ruth – out now!

Taken from the forthcoming album – Cool Head – released by Bubblewrap Collective on June 21st 2024

Cyn Cwsg – Asgwrn Newydd

Fideo wedi’i saethu yn Queen Street, Caerdydd.

Cyfarwyddo, cynhyrchu a golygu: Aled Victor
Mwddrwgs cynorthwyol: Twm Ebbsworth a Carwyn Selway

Rhan o gronfa fideos Pyst x Lŵp S4C | Part of Pyst x Lŵp S4C music video grant

UNTRO

PYST is delighted to announce UNTRO, a system that will support new Welsh artists to release their first single and create promotional opportunities for those singles. Forming a partnership between PYST, Creative Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, Lŵp/S4C and Klust, UNTRO is launched to represent, coordinate and promote tracks from new artists from Wales, providing them […]

Son of Chamber Symphony: UPROAR

UPROAR – Wales’ New Music Ensemble returns with its latest project for 17 musicians, championing some of the most exciting voices in Welsh classical music today alongside multi-award-winning international composers.

UNTRO

Organisation logo

Releasing the first singles of artists from Wales.   Partnership between PYST x Lŵp x Radio Cymru x Klust x Creative Wales.

Rufus Mufasa

Artist of the Month is a feature where we put the spotlight on the incredible work of one of our members.

Our Artist of the Month for March is Rufus Mufasa, a pioneering participatory artist, literary activist, poet, rapper, singer songwriter, theatre maker, and last but not least, Mother.

From Barbican Fellow to the first Future Generations Act Poet in Residence, Rufus also works internationally, securing literary residencies from Hay Literature Festival to Sweden, Finland, Indonesian, and Zimbabwe, but always returns to People Speak Up in Llanelli, Wales, promoting hip hop education, performance poetry and intergenerational development, and was appointed their Poet on Prescription 2021. A Hull ’19 artist in conjunction with BBC Contains Strong Language, Flashbacks and Flowers is her debut collection, published by Indigo Dreams, awarded for their innovation in publishing and Rufus won the International Poetry Award 2022 for this. Rufus’ work explores motherhood, the spirituality of ancestry, class, climate chaos, transgenerational trauma, the divine & the domestic, feminism & faith.

Green Man 2024

Tickets sold out.

15th – 18th August 2024 

Get to know the line up here!

FOCUS Wales 2024

FOCUS Wales is back and will take place over 9-11 May 2024 in Wrexham!

Get your tickets here!

Eden – Siwgr

Eden – the legendary Welsh girl group are releasing their second single of the year ‘Siwgr’.

Following the success of ‘Caredig’ last month (the video being watched over 40,000 times within the first 24 hours) the band are ready to unleash their next banger in the form of a bluesy Princey pop tune penned by Yws Gwynedd, Rich James Roberts and Ifan Siôn Davies.

Non, Emma and Rachael, who all turn 50 this year, are proud to be demolishing stereotypes and pushing boundaries of what’s possible in the Welsh language music scene.

Although they formed over 30 years ago, it looks like 2024 will be their busiest year to date, with more exciting music to come – watch this space.

Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau 2024

Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau –  First wave of #SFD24 artists announced

 18-21.07.24 – Dolgellau, Gwynedd

Tickets on sale 1 March here


More information soon

UNTRO

Announcing a system to support new Welsh artists

Los Blancos – Mas Adrian Mas

Dyma Mas Adrian Mas, oddi ar albwm newydd Los Blancos – Llond Llaw

Cyfarwyddwr: Owain Jones
Cyfarwyddwr Ffotograffiaeth: Gareth Bull
Cynorthwyydd Camera: Maisy Williams
Golygu: Pixy Jones
Cynhyrchu: Ynyr Morgan Ifan, Owain Jones & Catrin Morris