The Black Crwth Player and the Wolves
Alan Morse Davies recently wrote about Amusement Park Phases:
I count this as one of my major achievements. I’m not dead yet but I think I may be remembered for this.
I think he is absolutely correct that it was a major achievement, but five years later Davies is still putting out fantastic work. As I wrote back in May about Submarine Time, some of Davies’ best work is being produced 25 to 30 years into his career. Absolutely exceptional when you think about that.
Davies’ July release, a collaboration with Gillian Stevens called Y Crythor Du a’r Bleiddiaid, continues his extraordinary work of late. Comprised of Anderson on crwth and some field recordings of Anderson playing the crwth in a cave, their partnership has produced an ambient album that is gratifying as well as beautiful. If you are a musician who produces ambient music or just a fan, stop what you are doing and listen to Y Crythor Du a’r Bleiddiaid − this is what ambient albums should be.
Artists: Alan Morse Davies and Gillian Stevens
Title: Y Crythor Du a’r Bleiddiaid
Netlabel: At Sea
Release Date: 21 July 2012
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Thanks so much for the review, for some reason this work has not proved popular, I could try to guess why if I didn’t think it was good. It is good.
It’s a waiting game for me, call it a bubble if you wish but I have a sense of certainty that I just need to keep going, 47 now, maybe 50 years left in me still based on my family genetics, I make the music that I would like to hear as best I can.