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Cerys Matthews | "Explorer"
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How Can You Say So Little When You Talk So Much
Avalanche
Who Fears The Garden, Fears Life
La Tarara
Wade In The Water
Galleon
Into The Derelict Night
Connemara Cradle Song
Eneth Gadd Ei Wrthod
Fortress Sails
Sweet Magnolia
Harbwr Corc
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Cerys has been collecting songs since she was seven. On her Sunday morning BBC 6Music radio show she delves into her vast record collection to share her passion and despite what radio programmers would have us believe in the need for the familiar and over exposed, the response has been a rapidly ever increasing audience that welcomes the diversity of music that is often new to their ears.
"Explorer " is the title of Cerys' fourth solo album and in both choosing and writing the songs she has sub consciously delved into the huge influence of not just all the music she has heard, but the places she has been around the globe, and by the times we live in, but most importantly made an album that over the seven days of recording had no pre determined sound or calculated format.
The journeys start with the songs, from Spain, Scotland, Ireland, America, and Wales and their own migration. "I didn't want to explore so much what makes the songs different from each other, but what they have in common. How, when they are put side by side, they might find a simple common ground that exists despite the characteristics of their land of origin being so diverse. "
Cerys goes on to describe the new songs she has written. " Everyday I sit with my guitar and play music, some of the songs I have collected in my early teens, some just discovered. I wrote the rest of this album inspired by the idea of transience, migration and travel, imagining how people felt on hearing new sounds when first docking in new colonies, the uniqueness of smelling, seeing and of course hearing such strange things for the first time. "
"As I was about to go into the studio I started imagining sounds that might seem initially strange to the songs about to be recorded. Sounds that would in my mind compliment the message of the song, create a feeling that has the essence of where the songs have come from, but also sounds that added the exotic and the new."
The band took shape in the form of Mason Neely, long time collaborator, from Chattanooga, Attab Haddad, oud virtuoso and flamenco performer, Tigran Aleksanyan from Armenia on the Duduck, Frank Moon, of Cornwall's fair fields, with his 100 year old banjo, and the very English sound of Serafina Steer on harp and backing vocals, Cerys leading from the guitar.
The self produced album is released on May 9th on CD and download on Cerys' own label, through which she has already released her three previously successful solo albums ("Don't Look Down", "Paid Edrych I lawr ", and "TIR").
For more information log on to cerysmatthews.co.uk
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