amrwd – Angharad Jenkins, Patrick Rimes

amrwd (the Welsh for raw) is the debut album from two artists who are simply at the top of their game on the Welsh folk scene.

As founding members of the multi award-winning band CALAN, Angharad Jenkins and Patrick Rimes (also a founding member of Vrï) have spent fifteen years at the cutting edge of Welsh traditional music, constantly bending and beating it into unfamiliar shapes with their relentlessly innovative interpretations of old repertoire.

Through five studio albums and gruelling tours across three continents a deep musical rapport has grown, a shared instinctive musical language and a yearning to hear these ancient melodies as they are: raw and unfiltered. 

“amrwd encapsulates the sound of our strings, our voices, with foot percussion and keys. The presentation is raw, stripped-back, pure and simple.”

Buy the ‘amrwd’ CD here