tigergir1
Brilliant album, hypnotic , immersive & emotion 🫶
Recalling early DCD with touches of Kaelan mikla
What’s not to like.
Hope to catch them live someday 🤞
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Favorite track: 'Nes I Ddawnsio Efo'r Lleuad.
Levrikon
My favorite albums of 2024, #2.
Leila Lygad from Hawthonn joins up with appropriately witchy friends to conduct a ritual in the Welsh hinterlands. Singular, unique, and all-consuming pagan vision
Favorite track: Y Trawsnewidiad.
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Singing black-lit liturgies of bog bodies caked in mud, entranced by nocturnal landscapes flickering in the moon-glow and powered by queer enchantment, Tristwch y Fenywod are a Welsh-language gothic avant-rock power-coven. Exhumed from the depths of Leeds’ experimental underground, the trio consist of Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth (Guttersnipe, The Ephemeron Loop), Leila Lygad (Hawthonn) and Sidni Sarffwraig (Slaylor Moon, The Courtneys).
Stark, striking and bewitching, Tristwch y Fenywod’s self-titled album is their debut studio recording, following just 10 gigs and a live demo. Formed in 2022, Tristwch y Fenywod ("The Sadness of Womenâ€) record exclusively in the Welsh language, conjuring an eldritch, subterranean, alien folk music played on dual zither, electronic drums and bass guitar. With towering, siren-like vocals curling around the Welsh consonants, accompanied by stark, martial rhythms and swirling claw-plucked strings, Tristwch y Fenywod feels like an early 4AD recording dredged from the waters of an Anglesey swamp. The effect is simultaneously chilling and stirring.
The eight tracks on the record constitute what feels like a recently rediscovered, unholy grail of edgy, atmospheric, occult feminist goth emissions. Gwretsien’s dual-zither playing scatters melodic fragments and spirals of harmony around the decimated space opened up by the lugubrious bass playing and pounding, brooding drum pads. Coupled with the Welsh vocal, Tristwch y Fenywod embody a new, unique Celtic darkwave sound, equal parts Pornography-era The Cure, Svitlana Nianio’s haunted hammered string-work and the dark beauty of Dead Can Dance or This Mortal Coil. Opener Blodyn Gwyrdd feels like the last ride of Princess Ukok, with lumbering bass and 6/8 rhythms in procession to the event horizon with an entreating, impassioned vocal and surprising lyrical theme. The doomed dancing of the zither provides the mysterious melodic bedrock throughout the album, particularly on Ferch Gyda’r Llygaid Du’s heavy funereal sway and the slowly building, paroxysmal banshee breakdown of Awen: an astonishing swell of thrilling chaos.
The album was recorded and produced by Ross Halden and the band at Hohm Studio, Bradford, Summer 2023
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released August 30, 2024
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Recorded and produced by Ross Halden and the band at Hohm Studio, Bradford, Summer 2023.
BLODYN GWYRDD
Heddiw ydi dydd hudolus
Oherwydd dw i mor ffodus
Mae’r blodyn gwyrdd yn fy mhoced
Rwy'n eistedd ar y twyni tywod
Mae'r blodyn yn dawnsio efo tân
A thrwy yr mwg sanctaidd
Mae lleisiau cyfrin yn dod ‘n’agosach
Lluniau gan bysedd-sêr
Yn ymrithio tu ôl fy lygaid
Yr ellylldan yn tywys fi
Tuag lleoedd melfedaidd
GREEN FLOWER
Today is a magical day
Because I am so fortunate
The green flower is in my pocket
I sit on the sand dunes
The green flower dances with fire
And through the sacred smoke
Secret voices draw closer
Pictures by star-fingers
Flickering behind my eyes
The elvish flame is leading me
Towards velvet places
//
FERCH GYDA’R LLYGAID DU
Y ferch gyda’r llygaid du
Fyddi hi byth yn sylweddoli?
Nid all hi ddim yn dianc
O'i byd yn colli
Beth gwnaeth hi?
Byth yn bell o gythraul
Tybed, o tybed
Pam ei gwên yn troi yn garreg o dan yr haul?
Rhaid iddi hi dianc o’r diawl
GIRL WITH THE BLACK EYES
The girl with the black eyes
Will she never realise?
She cannot escape
From her losing world
What did she do?
Never far from evil
I wonder, oh I wonder
Why does her smile turn to stone beneath the sun?
She must escape the devil
//
Y TRAWSNEWIDIAD
Mae’r nos yn lladd y dydd
A datgelu eneidiau cudd
Ar ymyl y coedwig
Sŵn dychrynllyd y creaduriaid anweledig
Gwnaiff popeth rhewi
O dan awyr ddu
Chwiorydd y lleuad
Ymgynnull mewn cae gwag
Mae'r trawsnewidiad wedi dechrau
THE TRANSFORMATION
The night kills the day
And reveals hidden souls
On the edge of the forest
The terrifying sound of invisible creatures
Everything will freeze
Under a black sky
Sisters of the moon
Gather in an empty field
The transformation has begun
//
LLWYDWYRDD
Llwydwyrdd
Llwydlas
Bydd yr eithin yn ymaflyd
Tra cusaniff hi'r fenyw
O dan y tywyn golau stryd
Tu ôl yr ysbyty
Yn y dyfroedd fioled ynddyn ein galonnau
Llwybrau at marwolaethau feddal fach
Ti a fi yn diflannu yn y niwl
Ein cyrff ni sy'n anniriaethol
Wedi’i llusgo i lawr
I mewn i’r tywyllwch
GREYGREEN
Greygreen
Greyblue
The gorse will take hold
While she’ll kiss the woman
Under the glow of the street lights
Behind the hospital
In the violet waters within our hearts
Paths to small soft deaths
You and I disappear in the mist
Our bodies are intangible
Dragged down
Inside the darkness
//
BYD MEWN CYSGOD
Gwele'r angladd
Angladd y byd
Coedwigau ar dân
Angylion wedi marw yn y stryd
Mae'r eigion yn llawn o blastig
Wedi torri lawr mae'r coed i gyd
Llygaid a chlustiau sy'n gwrthod y gwir
Tra casineb yn lladd y gwanllyd
Amddiffyn Blodeuwedd (nid Bedwyr yn rhagor)
Basen nhw'n lloffruddu hi am ei harddwch
Rhaid i ni ceisio cofio
Er mae mor anodd nid am wylo
Er mae'r byd mewn cysgod
Mae cariad dal yn bodoli
Helpwch y colledigion pwy rhaid croesi'r môr
Basai'r teyrnedd yn gad' nhw i foddi
Rhaid i ni ceisio cofio
Er mae mor anodd nid am wylo
Er mae'r byd mewn cysgod
Mae cariad dal yn bodoli
WORLD IN SHADOW
See the funeral
The funeral of the world
Forests on fire
Angels dead in the street
The oceans are full of plastic
The trees have all been cut down
Eyes and ears which refuse the truth
While hate kills the weak
Protect Blodeuwedd (she’s not Bedwyr anymore)
They would murder her for her beauty
We must try to remember
Although it’s so hard not to cry
Even though the word is in shadow
Love still exists
Help the lost who must cross the sea
The kingdom would let them drown
We must try to remember
Although it’s so hard not to cry
Even though the word is in shadow
Love still exists
GELAIN GORS
Syllwch ar y trisgel
Wrth tân Calan Mai
Trigain flynyddoedd dywyll Grist
Yn ôl y llyswennod
Rhaid i chi cael eich gwthiod i lawr
Y mawnog yn llyncu
Mae’r ysbrydion yn fodlonus
Mae'r tranc gyntaf trwy fwyell
Yr ail yn dod trwy grogi
Y dryddedd thranc ydi trwy foddi
Gwnaiff y gors yn cadw chi
Daethon nhw i dreisio Mam
A chwalu ein dywylliant ni
Achubwch ni o Rhufain
Gyda’r aberthiad hwn
Mae'r tranc gyntaf trwy fwyell
Yr ail yn dod trwy grogi
Y dryddedd thranc ydi trwy foddi
Gwnaiff y gors yn cadw chi
BOG BODY
Stare upon the Triskel
At the Beltane fire
Thirty dark years of Christ
According to the eels
You must be pushed down
The bog swallows
The spirits are satisfied
The first death is by axe
The second comes by hanging
The third death is by drowning
The bog will keep you
They came to rape Mother (Ynys Môn)
And destroy our culture
Save us from Rome
With this sacrifice
The first death is by axe
The second comes by hanging
The third death is by drowning
The bog will keep you
//
AWEN
Awen
Mae’na bywyd hyd yn oed mewn craig
Ymhob lle distaw
Mae’r hen cân yn cadw ymlaen
Awen
O goed, gwaed a gwacter
Rhwng ysgallen a seren
Llais tywyll Cerridwen
Awen
AWEN
Awen
There is life even in a rock
In every silent place
The old song carries on
Awen
From trees, blood and emptiness
Between thistle and star
Cerridwen’s dark voice
Awen
//
‘NES I DDAWNSIO EFO’R LLEUAD
Nes i ddawnsio efo’r lleuad
Disgleirio yn y gaeaf
Oedd ei dagrau yn iesin yn arian
Fel ei golau deuthum yn adlewyrchiad
Pan gorweddodd hi dros y môr
Wnes i ddisgyn o dan y dŵr
Rwy’n twynnu yn y tywyllwch
Wedi trwytho yn ei thristwch
Roedd ei chysgod yn grisiau
I fyny i le nes i ddirhau
Dwfn yn ei chariad oer
Tan gwahanodd yr haul ni eto
I DANCED WITH THE MOON
I danced with the moon
Shining in the winter
Her tears were bright like silver
Like her light I became a reflection
When she lay across the sea
I fell beneath the water
I am glimmering in the darkness
Soaked in her sadness
Her shadow was a staircase
Up to where I materialised
Deep in her cold love
Until the sun separated us again
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