Tunes for a Monday Morning

This morning, music from Wales and beyond....

Above: "Pan O'wn Y Gwanwyn" by Alaw (Oliver Wilson-Dickson, Jamie Smith and Dylan Fowler), from their gorgeous album Dead Man's Dance (2017). The video was filmed Twyn y Gaer, a hill fort near Abergavenny.

Below: "Glyn Nedd," performed live by Alaw in the Acapela Studio in Cardiff.

Above: "Diddanwch Gruffydd ap Cynan" by mother-and-daughter duo Delyth & Angharad (from Swansea), which appears on their second album, Llinyn Arian (2018). "This is a traditional Welsh tune," Angharad says, "that I learnt as a child from hearing my mother playing it with the folk band Aberjaber. When Delyth was pregnant, I was the bump that the harp rested upon. Gruffydd ap Cynan was the King of Gwynedd from 1081 until his death in 1137. The tune comes from Edward Jones���s collection The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, which was published in 1784."

Below: "Night, Moon, Dance" by Toby Hay (from Rhayader, mid Wales) and Jim Ghedi (from Sheffield). This lovely piece can be found on their new album, The Hawksworth Grove Sessions: Duets for 6 & 12 String Guitar (2018).

Above: "My Love's in Germany," a 17th century ballad performed by The Trials of Cato. Originally from Wales and North Yorkshire, the trio honed their sound during a year in Lebanon, returning to Britain to launch their debut EP. This song comes their terrific new album, Hide and Hair (2018), recorded at Penylan Studios in mid Wales.

Below: "Gloria" by The Trials of Cato, which is also from the new album.

The art today is by Alan Lee, illustrating The Mabinogion: stories compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th-13th centuries from earlier oral traditions.