Cynefin

🎼🎶 SONG STORIES PT.4 // STRAEON CANEUON RH.4 - 'Y MEDELWR'🌾

The Welsh folk poet tradition is pretty unique within a modern European literary context. A good example is the poet 'Isgarn', who documented the rapid changes that were taking place in West Wales during the first half of the 20th century.

Diolch Paul!

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First half highlights, not in any order.

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💿 Shimli
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More than a set of Welsh folk songs. The CD contains a booklet with an absorbing commentary in two languages.

Physical product, beautifully presented 🙏🏻

🎶 Mae'r Nen Yn Ei Glesni

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Three performers preparing for the closing song in the show 'Three Acres + a Cow'. They are standing in front of a washing line hung with paper banners printed with the dates and titles of each of the chapters in the history of land rights in Britain from 1066 to the present day.

An enjoyable and enlightening show from 'Three Acres And A Cow' in the beautiful setting of the Wesley Church in Chester.
'A History Of Land Rights And Protest In Folk Song And Story' it was fun to sing along.
Catch them on tour, if you can!
@threeacresacow.bsky.social
@cynefinmusic.bsky.social

Lovely time in Liverpool last night! Thanks so much to Ullet Road Church, Squash Liverpool, all our volunteers, and @cynefinmusic.bsky.social for bringing powerful Welsh songs to the show.

🎼🎶 SONG STORIES PT. 3 // STRAEON CANEUON RH.3 - MAE'R NEN YN EI GLESNI🌱🌸

A bit more about this spring carol and its author D. Jacob Davies (and the beauty of language)

Chydig mwy am y garol Mai yma a'i awdur, D. Jacob (a hefyd prydferthwch iaith)

🎪 SUMMER FESTIVALS // GWYLIAU HAF ☀️

Ok you beauties, here's where I'll be with the band over the summer! See you in a field somewhere!

Iawn de pobl hyfryd, dyma lle fyddai gyda'r band dros yr haf! Welwn ni chi mewn cae yn rhywle!

📷 Photo/Llun: Heledd Hardy

Shimli has made it into the UK folk charts! In at no. 23. You can watch the chart show run by the wonderful folk at @folkonfoot.com below.

Mae Shimli wedi cyrraedd y siartiau gwerin y DU! Mewn ar 23. Gwyliwch yr hol beth isod.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=weV4...

diolch am ddod Iolo!

Perfformiad grêt gan @cynefinmusic.bsky.social heno (yn y Gate, Caerdydd) oedd yn cyffwrdd ar hen eiriau anghofiedig, hanes amaeth a byd natur 🎶

Cynefin – Shimli (Album Review) In an age of ‘homogenisation and mass amnesia’, Cynefin’s ‘Shimli’ looks to the diversity of the past for answers, a role he’s well placed to comment on as a researcher and cultural historian. Beautif...

In an age of homogenisation and mass amnesia, Cynefin’s ‘Shimli’ looks to the diversity of our past for answers, a role he’s well-placed to comment on as a researcher and cultural historian. Another remarkable release from this unique musician. klofmag.com/2025/02/cyne...
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Glad you enjoyed the interview! I could talk oats all day, ha!

Thank you @klofmag.bsky.social for the heartfelt review, much appreciated! Diolch i gylchgrawn KLOF am yr adolygiad gwresog! ✍️ 🙏

Thanks! Be great to see you at the Welfare!

Thanks for the kind words!

Raising a flag: Cynefin's tender, brave and beautiful new album, Shimli Stephen Price Folk musician, Cynefin, has released his second album Shimli, a poetic, forceful and bar-raising work on the themes of language, agriculture and loss that was formed through conversation...

The year is young, but if Shimli is a taste of things to come, Welsh folk music's revival offers hope, and indeed seeds, for a Welsh language revival, despite any talk of decay and displacement wp.me/p8Mk4U-UGo

thanks for the kind words!

Gwych! Diolch am archebu - falch bod e wedi cyrraedd!

Cynefin: Shimli review | Jude Rogers's folk album of the month Singer Owen Shiers combines traditional ballads, musical settings of poems, and originals built on stories collected from rural west Walians, all sung in Welsh

So I woke up to this, this morning. Slightly surreal, but really lovely none the less.

Felly, deffrais i hwn y bore yma. Bach yn swreal, ond yn hyfryd iawn serch hynny.

Thanks - diolch o galon @juderogers.bsky.social for the kind words / Am y geiriau caredig!

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

📢 NEW ALBUM OUT NOW! // ALBWM NEWYDD ALLAN NAWR! 💿

The day has arrived! Shimli is finally here for your aural delectation / Mae'r diwrnod wedi cyrraedd! Mae Shimli yma i'ch diddanwch clywedol.

💿🎵http://linktr.ee/cynefinmusic

Thanks to / Diolch i PRS Foundation
@helpmusicians.bsky.social

🎶 NEW SINGLE // SENGL NEWYDD - CORNICYLL

Inspired by Dic Jones' poem and my visits with @bardseyben.bsky.social to @rspbcymru.bsky.social
's Ynys Hir reserve. Enjoy!

Wedi'i hysbrydoli gan cerdd Dic Jones a'm ymweliadau i warchodfa @rspb.bsky.social Ynys Hir. Mwynhewch!

🔗🎵 tinyurl.com/cornicyll

📢 🚌 BAND TOUR | TAITH BAND 🎵

Come see us on the road in the new year and hear the new album 'Shimli' live! Dewch i'n gweld ar y ffordd yn y flwyddyn newydd a chlywed yr albwm newydd 'Shimli' yn fyw!

🎟️ Tickets / Tocynnau: cynefinmusic.wales/en/gigs

📢 NEW SINGLE 'HELMI' OUT NOW! 💿

Introducing the first single from the new Cynefin album 'Shimli', due in January! More re. the song, album + a pretty cool music video to come! But for now I hope it lands well.
Please share if so!

cynefinwales.bandcamp.com/track/helmi