Dwi'n chwarae gig ar nos Fercher, 8yn, yn y Bank Vault, Aberystwyth, gyga Nicolas Davalan ar bas dwbl
*** I'm playing a gig on Wednesday evening, 8pm, in the Bank Vault, Aberystwyth, with Nicolas Davalan on double bass Gigiau nesaf/next gigs: 25/11/22 - Lo-fi Jones & The Sunshine Project at Y Llew Coch, Machynlleth 08/12/22 - Bald Welsh Fairy (Liam, Ailsa & Nic), Bank Vault, Aberystwyth 09/12/22 - Mach Dance Band - Noson Balfolk Evening, Canolfan Owain Glyndwr, Machynlleth 14/01/22 - Lo-fi Jones a Nic Davalan, Noson y Fari Lwyd, Y Llew Coch*, Dinas Mawddwy *yes, we are playing at both of the Red Lions!! :D
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Dwi wedi bod yn gweithio ar project newydd efo fy mrawd, Siôn. Rydan ni'n rhyddau ein EP gyntaf, "Llanast Yn Y Llofft" ar 22/11/22. Rydym wedi rhyddhau sengl oddi ar yr EP. Mae'r cân wedi'i ysbrydoli gan yr amser pan roeddom yn byw yn Llundain, a'n trafferthion yn trio i neud bywyd a bywoliaeth yna. Mae'r fideo wedi cael i gwneud gan ein chwaer, Ciara. Mae hon a sawl trac arall wedi cael eu chwarae ar Radio Cymru! **** I've been busy working on a new project with my brother, Siôn. We are releasing our debut EP "Llanast yn Y Llofft" on the 22/11/22. We released a single from the EP. Its about the time when we lived in London and the challenges of trying to make a life and a living there. The video is by our sister, Ciara. This and several other tracks have been played on Radio Cymru! :) Thanks to everyone who came to see us in Camden Club supporting Hull band Goodnight Vincent on their UK & Ireland tour! It was my first gig in London for a long while. We had a great time. Wonderful to see old and new friends there in the audience. I really enjoyed playing with the latest London lineup - Ffion Aynsley on keys & flute, Michael Ekeghasi on cajon, and MJ Moon on bass. And all of them singing backing vocals! They smashed it. Here's an awesome video of us filmed and edited by the talented Oleg Katchinsky: Of course, I also loved the previous lineups as well, such as the Treehouse band and the Festival of Jim band.
It would be epic if we could play a big stadium and have the whole ensemble onstage all at once. Which lineup was your favourite? Mae fy sengl diweddaraf, Tori Jaaun re Jaaun, wedi bod yn neud yn reit da! Mae wedi cael ei chwarae ar Resonance FM, Radio Cymru, Exile FM a BBC 6 Music, ac wedi cael ei cynnwys yn "Fresh Favs: batch 435" ar y blog poblogaidd cherddoriaeth newydd, Fresh on the Net.
Radio appearances so far for Tori Jaaun re Jaaun re: DJ Ritu, A World in London Unlocked 82 - January 26th 2022, Resonance FM - https://www.mixcloud.com/djritu/a-world-in-london-unlocked-82-january-26th-2022/ Georgia Ruth, 01/02/22, BBC Radio Cymru - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00140t1 Jon Read, The Monday Night Ride-Out, 14th Feb 2022, Exile FM - https://exilefm.com/podcasts/the-monday-night-ride-out-17 Tom Robinson, BBC Introducing Mixtape, 21/02/22, BBC 6 Music - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014n1g Also, "Community Garden: Lockdown Version" got played on "The Ska Show With Beefy, Jan 30th 2022" on Southern FM (Australia!!) - https://embed.sounder.fm/play/241126 The Worldwide Welshman Radio takeover continues! More international & local collaborations to come... Last spring, during lockdown, I was invited by Indian classical singer, Subodh Pandey to participate in an international musical collaboration. He set up a video call between me and two of his friends, the vocalist Aakriti Bhatt and the tabla player, Maneesh Rawat. The three of us had not met before. Facilitated by Subodh, we developed a piece together. Aakriti proposed the two compositions in Raag Yaman, Maneesh created the tabla part, and I composed the guitar and synth accompaniment and added a drum machine. The working-title of the project is Indo-West Collaboratives (इंडो - West – सहयोगी) and we were supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation's Mobility First! grant. In the summer, Aakriti and Maneesh got together in Harmony Studio, New Delhi, to record the vocals, tabla, tampura and swarmandal. They sent this to me over the internet, and I chopped it up a bit and recorded guitars & synths. I was staying in London that week, so I ended up recording the parts in MJ & Hugo's home studio in Whitechapel (check out their band, Temporal Comet). I filmed the video in their back yard, too. Lyrics & Interpretation
The raga/scale is Raag Yaman. The first bandish (compostion), "Tori Jaaun re Jaaun re", is a song of love and gratitude for one's mentor, romantic partner, good friend, or family member, from the Dilli Gharana tradition: Tori jaun re jaun re balihari... Tori Pyari si suratpe balma re jaun re jaun re balihari... Aakriti's interpretation: "oh my dear, you are my affectionate, your face is so beautiful and I feel so much positivity after seeing you that I just want to see you all the time. Your presence makes the ambience very nice, I feel so good when you are present in front of me" Kush Rang ke mai bal bal jaun... Charan me sheesh Jhukaun "my dear mentor, I cannot explain how special you are to me. I just put my head on your feet" Part 2 of the piece is a Tarana, composed by Vidushi Kaushiki Chakraborty. A tarana is a type of vocal composition in Hindustani classical music that uses nonsense syllables which are believed to be derived from Persian and Arabic. Tana dir tanaum tana dir na... Tana dir tanaum tana dim tana dir na... Tana dim tana dere na Na dir tada ni tadir tadani tadir tana na Tana dir tanaum tana dim tana dir na...... Credits Bandish (Composition) - "Tori Jaaun re Jaaun re" - written and composed by Dilli Gharana "Tarana" - composed by Vidushi Kaushiki Chakraborty Performed & arranged by:- Liam Rickard (Wales), Aakriti Bhatt (India), Maneesh Rawat (India) Video & audio produced by Liam Rickard Recorded in Harmony Studio, New Delhi, & Temporal Comet Studio, London Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/star-of-the-sea-re-opening-gig-tickets-215000431077 Program: 7.30pm Fairytale Cellist 8pm Badger & Ailsa 8.45pm Worldwide Welshman 9pm Lofi-Jones with Ailsa & Badger 10pm post-gig hanging out!
Yn fuan arol dod adref o COP26 yn yr Alban lle roeddwn i wedi bod yn protestio, berfformio a gwylio presentations yn y Green Zone, es i i Ffrainc i gymryd rhan yn "Ethnofonik 2021". Pob blwyddyn, mae 18 cerddorion o wledydd gwahanol yn dod at ei gilydd yn Ris-Orangis, ychydig i'r dde o Baris, i rannu caneuon o'n diwylliannau gwahanol, creu trefniadau gyda'r band, a pherfformio'r trefniadau ar sawl llwyfan yn yr ardal. Dyma'r livestream o'r perfformiad olaf ar y 27ain o Dachwedd.
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Karuna Bhavan temple, Lesmahagow, Scotland I've joined a group of pilgrims walking from London to Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit. Yesterday we had a short walk from Douglas to Lesmahagow. We stayed in the Karuna Bhavan temple. The devotees have kindly let us stay here on their little eco-farm, thanks to several members of our group visiting them yesterday to ask them nicely. Previously, we've stayed in churches, community halls, and even a Days Inn at a motorway service station. I first met the pilgrims on the 5th of September in a church in Kilburn, North London, on their first stop (I already knew two of them who were my coursemates Tom and Jelena, which is how I got involved with this). I played a show for them, accompanied by my last-minute band, Kerttu Sorumen (vocals), Michael Ekeghasi (vocals, cajon), Lewis Stagg (accordion) and Liam Lenohan (keys). It was a lovely show. I next met them in Leek, Staffordshire, on September the 26th. My courseamtes and I, lead by Jelena, had arranged an event this weekend in Leek to coincide with the walkers passing through the town. I stayed with them for their rest day on the 27th, and played an evening show for them in the church where we were sleeping (I slept right up front near the altar). On Tuesday the 28th I walked with the pilgrims from Leek to Macclesfield. It was quite rainy. That evening I went to stay on Mathew & Kim's alpaca farm, and then I went back to my new houseshare in Machynlleth (I moved to Mach, I'll write about that in another post). I rejoined the walk at Gretna on the 16th of October. I took the train up from London. I'm walking with them to Glasgow. 16/10/21 - Meeting the walkers in Gretna |
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Scroll down the blog for musical adventures! You can also check out the menu on the top right to see links to my bandcamp, selected videos & music, art portfolio, bio and contact page. Its a bit chaotic, but its a work in progress. Enjoy! AuthorLiam Rickard is a musician & illustrator from North Wales performing multilingual, global-alt-pop, party music and comedy under the name Worldwide Welshman, and as one half of the Welsh folk-rock duo, Lo-Fi Jones. Archives
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