Allan ar Recordiau NAWR / Released on Recordiau NAWR 30.10.2026
Ar gael i archebu o flaen llaw ar Bandcamp 16.10.2026 / Available to pre-order on Bandcamp 16.10.2026
Mae O’r Dwfn y Dygaf yn archwilio tirwedd hauntological trwy chwe gwaith sain wedi’u ffurfio o recordiadau maes. Mae rhai yn cynnwys offerynnau byw a ffynonellau sain eraill, tra bod eraill yn canolbwyntio ar destun llafar, yn amrywio o leisiau hermetig i leferydd clir a dealladwy. Mae’r albwm yn cymryd ei deitl o Angar Kyfundawt yn Llyfr Taliesin: “Awen a ganaf / o dwfn ys dygaf”.
Mae’r gweithiau hyn yn olrhain disgyniad i haenau chtonig Ynys Môn – yn byw ym myd hanesion clwyfedig ac yn glynu wrth yr olion a adawyd ar ôl amser.
Er bod dau waith wedi’u perfformio am y tro cyntaf yng Ngŵyl Gerdd Bangor ym mis Chwefror 2026, mae’r gwaith wedi’i greu’n bennaf fel gwaith celf sain sefydlog yn hytrach nag albwm perfformio byw.
Gyda’i gilydd, mae’r gweithiau hyn yn ffurfio cylch o ddisgyniad ac ail-ymddangosiad bregus; yn glynu i’r hyn sy’n parhau i amgodio yn ei le.
Bydd O’r Dwfn y Dygaf ar gael drwy Recordiau NAWR mewn argraffiad cyfyngedig o CD a lawrlwythiad digidol.
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O’r Dwfn y Dygaf explores a hauntological landscape through six sound works formed from field recordings. Some foreground live instruments and other sound sources, while others centre on spoken text, ranging from hermetically embedded voices to clearly intelligible speech. The album takes its title from Angar Kyfundawt (“The Hostile Confederacy”) in The Book of Taliesin: “Awen a ganaf / o dwfn ys dygaf” (“I sing inspiration / I bring it forth from the depth”).
These works trace a descent into the chthonic strata of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) – dwelling in the realm of wounded histories and clinging to the traces left behind by time.
While two works were premiered at Bangor Music Festival in February 2026, the release is conceived primarily as a fixed-media sound work rather than a live-performance album.
Together, these works form a cycle of descent and fragile emergence; from disintegration and erasure to what remains encoded in place.
O’r Dwfn y Dygaf will be available via Recordiau NAWR in limited edition physical CD and digital download.
Tracklist
- …cawod melltithion…. (& Richard Craig – bass flute)
- O’r Dwfn y Dygaf I
- Llen Cadnant
- O’r Dwfn y Dygaf II
- Caer Siddi (& Richard Craig – contrabass flute)
- O’r Dwfn y Dygaf III
Instrumentation & Credits
Composed by: Tristan Rhys Williams
Performed by:
- All voices, field recordings, hydrophone / geophone materials, sound design and sample-based elements: Tristan Rhys Williams
- Bass flute and contrabass flute with internal speaker: Richard Craig
Texts by Tristan Rhys Williams except for the muffled spoken text in Caer Siddi which is an excerpt from Dafydd and Rhiannon Ifans’ modern Welsh translation of the Third Branch of The Mabinogi. The chant at the beginning of …cawod melltithion… includes a translated / interpolated fragment from The Anathemata by David Jones. The spoken texts for O’r Dwfn y Dygaf I & III use “Angar Kyfundawt” (“The Hostile Confederacy”) in The Book of Taliesin (19.1-23.8) (after Marged Haycock) as a starting point for free-form riffs.
Artwork & Design
Front and back cover: stills of camerawork by Richard Craig
Design by Scott Wallace
