Musik / folk

Tro


Anmeldelser (3)


ivanrod.dk

d. 29. sep. 2017

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Ivan Rod

d. 29. sep. 2017

"Hun er af walisisk afstamning, og Tro (walisisk for "vend" eller "drej") er hendes første store album i eget navn. Men hvilket et! Man skal ikke høre mange strofer, før man forstår, hvorfor hun i sit lille hjemland betragtes som en stor kunstner ... Vel tager hun afsæt i sit eget sprog, i sin egen kulturbaggrund og i sin egen musikalske bagage, men i instrumentering, komposition og sangskrivning tilfører hun nye ingredienser, nye farver, ny poesi. Med ærlige, dybfølte tekster og brugen af bl.a. kora og steel-guitar tilføjes den helt enkle og fortrinsvis kammermusikalske folk nye dimensioner, som gør Tro til det store album, det lanceres som".


Folk radio UK

d. 19. sep. 2017

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Thomas Blake

d. 19. sep. 2017

"The first thing that strikes us is the twang of a bansitar - provided by Rowan Rheingans of Lady Maisery and The Rheingans Sisters - and then the immersive, liquid tones of Glyn's voice. She has been compared to Joni Mitchell, and on this evidence that is not an exaggeration. There is also something of Vashti Bunyan in the deceptive simplicity of her words and melodies, while the eastern musical backing recalls some of Pentangle's more experimental moments ... The choice of supporting musicians on Tro is inspired. Employing the services of Seckou Keita is an impressive coup ... [Rowan] Rheingans provides banjo on Bratach Shi which along with producer and multi-instrumentalist Dylan Fowler's haunting lap steel gives the piece a pleasingly timeless, placeless feel ... Rheingans' banjo also appears on Y Gnawas (The Bitch), Glyn's startling reimagining of Karen Dalton's setting of Katie Cruel ... On Far Ago, Glyn takes a Joni Mitchell quote and weaves a whole, wise song out ofit,and fittingly it is the most Mitchell-like moment on the album, while the final English-language song, What's A Girl To Do, owes more to Anne Briggs ... As a whole, it is a poetic and deeply moving experience".


fRoots

2017 October

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Ken Hunt

2017 October

"Gwyneth Glyn is one of the most inspirational and consistent musicians in Wales and "Tro" is a kind of repositioning. After releasing three Cymru-centric albums between 2005 and 2011, she spent time supporting the Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita (himself an accompanist on "Tro") and collaborating, as Ghazalaw, with the Indian ghazal singer Tauseef Akhtar. Even though lyrically the song is quite different, the opening track "Tanau" has a dreamy Vashti Bunyan quality "Diamond Day"-style. The fourth track "Ffair" is a (...) setting of the supernatural "She Moved Through The Fair". Here "arranged and translated by Gwyneth Glyn", it is a fascinating development that (...) embodies and epitomises what that blurry entity we call "the tradition" is all about. Glyn also includes (...) three originals in English (...) - "Dig Me A Hole" is so good it seems destined for a "bright" June Tabor future ... A wow-factor release".