Label: Amgen

架空の音楽史をコンセプトとした面白物件!!エリアン・ラディーグの"Occam Ocean Vol. 1"の演奏にも参加、Another Timbreに残した諸作や多くの即興もので知られる超ベテランハープ奏者Rhodri Davies。軽快なリズムがメチャクチャ素晴らしい馬頭琴的オリジナルハープを使った氏の傑作アルバム[Telyn Rawn]。このアルバムを中世に存在していた古楽の名作と仮定し、彼のお気に入りのミュージシャン達にその文脈にあたる空想上の音源制作を依頼した面白コンセプトの作品。石川高、Richard Dawson、Pat Thomas、C. Spencer Yeh等々、18名の演奏家が即興、フィールドレコーディング、エレクトロニクスに用いた様々な表現を披露。













Laura Cannell / Brìghde Chaimbeul / Richard Dawson / Jem Finer / Ko Ishikawa / Angharad Jenkins / C Joynes / Ceri Rhys Matthews / Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh / Aidan O’Rourke / Llio Rhydderch / Orphy Robinson / Pat Thomas / Phil Tyler / Stevie Wishart / C. Spencer Yeh

This collection is a companion piece to my solo album ‘Telyn Rawn’ AMGEN 001 (2020). I have invited some of my favourite musicians to respond to the eighteen improvised pieces on ‘Telyn Rawn’. I asked each contributor to imagine that the musical material improvised in 2020 was an ancient musical form that had fully existed in the medieval period, and, that each of their responses were to have happened centuries after the imagined formation of the ‘Telyn Rawn’ pieces.

This album therefore proposes a new imagined repertoire that emerges from an already speculatively built instrument and equally re-imagined repertoire. As guitarist C Joynes comments, these creative responses offer a kind of ‘speculative fiction’ approach to the source material. At the point where this music reaches you, it has been filtered through imagined passages of time, various musical languages and histories, and channelled through the fictional ecologies of musicians, locations and instrumentation.

The title given to this album of imaginary musical histories, ‘Creiriau y Delyn Rawn’ or ‘Relics of the Horsehair harp’, is inspired by the title Edward Jones gave to his manuscript ‘Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of the Welsh Bards and Druids’ (1802), a title I have always loved.

Rhodri Davies, Abertawe