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Creiriau Y Delyn Rawn / Relics Of The Horsehair Harp
Maverick Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies invites speculative interpretations of his 2020 solo album from likes of Laura Cannell, C. Spencer Yeh, Pat Thomas, Orphy Robinson, Phil Tyler and many more with wonderfully imaginative results. In `Creiriau y Delyn Rawn / Relics of the Horsehair Harp' Rhodri fields 18 variegated responses to his solo album `Telyn Rawn', requesting a coterie of peers to imagine that his improvisations were made in the medieval period, and they were answering the call down the centuries. In a playful process riffing on notions of speculative fiction, uchronics, and pluralities of musical language, Davies effectively filters his work via a mix of Welsh, Irish, British, and international musical voices with results remarkably faithful to the original material - mostly acoustic, folkwise, but with some more daring examples that jog the listener's imagination to farther out places.