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SUMMARY:Cerys Hafana with Rosie Brownhill
DESCRIPTION:Cerys Hafana is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who mangle
 s\, mutates\, and transforms traditional music.\n\n\n\nCerys Hafana is a c
 omposer and multi-instrumentalist who mangles\, mutates\, and transforms t
 raditional music. She explores the creative possibilities and unique quali
 ties of the triple harp\, and is also interested in found sounds\, archive
  materials and electronic processing.\n\nHafana uses her instrument as a p
 ercussive\, jagged-toothed tool with which she excavates songs from the We
 lsh National Library’s archives.\n\nMachynlleth-born Cerys Hafana is a m
 aster of the Welsh triple harp\, an intimidating instrument of three rows 
 of glistening strings. In the 2022 anthology Welsh (Plural)\, excerpted in
  the Guardian\, she wrote that “it is viewed as a kind of historical art
 efact\, hailing from a better time when everyone in Wales spoke Welsh”. 
 Glorifying that past “is an erasure of all the things that have changed 
 for the better”\, she added\, spit in every syllable.\n\nCerys Hafana Ed
 yf Album artwork cover art\n\nHafana explores resonances from the past tha
 t connect with the modern day in a contemporary\, creative way. On her sec
 ond album\, Edyf (meaning “thread”) she uses her harp as a percussive\
 , jagged-toothed tool with which she excavates songs from the Welsh Nation
 al Library’s archives. The instrument gives a buzzing pulse to Y Mor o W
 ydr (The Sea of Glass) – a strange hymn about doomsday that crackles wit
 h the heated present of climate change – and a raw beat to Hen Garol Haf
 \, a Celtic summer carol that amplifies current interests in pre-Christian
  traditions. In Tragwyddoldeb (Eternity) and Cilgerran (named after a wood
 ed village on the banks of the River Teifi in west Wales) it creates thick
 ets of wonder in bright sounds. Hafana also sings movingly\, her high voic
 e like an indie-pop soprano shorn of its sweetness.\n\nThere are also mome
 nts of deep contemplation. On the glorious Bridoll\, she interprets a psal
 m tune that she worked on in Bangor’s Capel Y Graig\, a former nonconfor
 mist chapel converted into an experimental art space. Comed 1858\, based o
 n hymn writer Benjamin Jenkins’ reflections on light shooting through sp
 ace\, is also profoundly beautiful. “Every age in the interval of time /
  Reveals some greatness”\, Hafana sings\, articulating a communal ache f
 or hope.\n\n**** (4 Stars) The Guardian\n\n\n\n\n\nRosie Brownhill\n\nInst
 rumentalist and composer from Staffordshire\, UK.Melodies plucked out from
  the soles of muddy shoes.\n\nMulti - Instrumental based songs in the Engl
 ish folk tradition\n\nhttps://www.rosiebrownhill.co.uk/music\n\n\n\n\n
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