For Elliw & Brychan Telyn benglin / Lap harp Recordiwyd ar Ionawr 31, 2014 yn Stiwdios Blank, Newcastle upon Tyne / Recorded on 31st of January 2014 at Blank Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne.Cynhyrchwyr gweithredol / Executive producrs: Richard Dawson, Graham Thrower.Recordiwyd, cymysgwyd a meistrolwyd gan / Recorded, mixed and mastered by Sam Grant.Dylunio gan / Design by Anna Peaker.Darlun gan / Drawing by Jean-Luc Guionnet. Benthycwyd y teitlau o weithiau / Titles borrowed from the works of Carlos Castaneda, Kate Fagan, Alec Finlay, Nathaniel Mackey, Redell Olsen, James Purdy, Sun Ra, Nick Thurston, Sue Tompkins. Rhyddhawyd An Air Swept Clean of All Distance yn gyntaf ar finyl gan Alt Vinyl, av057 (2014) / An Air Swept Clean of All Distance was first released on LP with Alt Vinyl, av057 (2014). Diolch i / Thank you to John Bisset, John Butcher, Angharad Davies, Ann Davies, John Davies, Richard Dawson, Angharad Closs Stephens and Graham Thrower.Rhodri Davies self reissue of fantastic acoustic lap harp solo record. First released on LP with Alt Vinyl, av057 (2014) alongside the amplified 'Wound Response', 'An Air Swept Clean of All Distance' sees the harp tuned to a different set of fixed pitches and played without preperation or distortion.  "...hearing An Air Swept Clean of All Distance I think also of Cy Twombly, burning a path to the ancient classical world through a mess of rough scribble, vivid marks, smears and graffiti. There is a static character to the playing here, rising and falling, arrested and stuttering, rolling and tumbling...returning compulsively to the same passage as if caught in that same tangled web of strings once violently cut, now reconstituted into a set of revenant problems." - David Toop, 2020.  “Davies settles obsessively on tumbling phrases, arpeggios and articulate rhythms, turning them over and over, letting them develop only within strict limits, as though this fine, prolific adventurous musician is freshly discovering a harp that has been there all along.” - Julian Cowley, Wire Magazine, 2014 --- Rhodri Davies / telyn benglin (lap harp) --- I / For Elliw & Brychan Recordiwyd ar Ionawr 31, 2014 yn Stiwdios Blank, Newcastle upon Tyne / Recorded on 31st of January 2014 at Blank Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne. Cynhyrchwyr gweithredol / Executive producrs: Richard Dawson, Graham Thrower. Recordiwyd, cymysgwyd a meistrolwyd gan / Recorded, mixed and mastered by Sam Grant. Dylunio gan / Design by Anna Peaker. Darlun gan / Drawing by Jean-Luc Guionnet. Benthycwyd y teitlau o weithiau / Titles borrowed from the works of Carlos Castaneda, Kate Fagan, Alec Finlay, Nathaniel Mackey, Redell Olsen, James Purdy, Sun Ra, Nick Thurston, Sue Tompkins. Rhyddhawyd An Air Swept Clean of All Distance yn gyntaf ar finyl gan Alt Vinyl, av057 (2014) / An Air Swept Clean of All Distance was first released on LP with Alt Vinyl, av057 (2014). Diolch i / Thank you to John Bisset, John Butcher, Angharad Davies, Ann Davies, John Davies, Richard Dawson, Angharad Closs Stephens and Graham Thrower. AMGEN CD003

/ For Rob Green (1964-2010) “A bydded i’r arth a ryddhawyd drochi ei gorff yn llifoedd y gogledd rhewllyd a pheidio â dihoeni yn acwariwm dŵr distyll yr ardd academaidd.” Kazimir Malevich, O Giwbiaeth a Dyfodolaeth i Swprematiaeth: Y Realaeth Arlunyddol Newydd (1915) “And may the freed bear bathe his body amid the flows of the frozen north and not languish in the aquarium of distilled water in the academic garden.” Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Manifesto (1916)creditsreleased February 24, 2021 Telyn benglin / Lap harp Telyn benglin, troswr, meicroffon cyffwrdd (Trac 7), pedal trosyriant, pedal sain a dau chwyddseinydd. Lap harp, transducer, contact microphone (track 7), overdrive, volume pedal and two amplifiers. Recordiwyd ar Rhagfyr 11, 2011 yn Tŵr Morden, Newcastle upon Tyne / Recorded on 11th of December 2011 at Morden Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne.Cynhyrchydd gweithredol / Executive producer: Richard Dawson.Recordiwyd a chymysgwyd gan / Recorded and mixed by Phil Begg.Meistrolwyd gan / Mastered by Sam Grant.Dylunio gan / Design by Anna Peaker.Darlun gan / Drawing by Jean-Luc Guionnet. Benthycwyd y teitlau o weithiau / Titles borrowed from the works of Thomas Bernhard, Jorge Luis Borges, Heather Fuller, Elizabeth Price, J H Prynne, Sarah Riggs, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Leslie Scalapino. Rhyddhawyd Wound Response yn gyntaf ar finyl gan Alt Vinyl, av038 (2012).Wound Response was first released on LP with Alt Vinyl, av038 (2012). Diolch i / Thank you to: Paul Kelly, Adam Parkinson, Connie Pickard, Sioned Puw Rowlands, Angharad Closs Stephens and Graham Thrower.Rhodri Davies self reissue of  Wound Response originally released by Alt Vinyl in 2012. Reissued alongside the solo acoustic 'An Air swept Clean Of All Distance', Wound Response is loud, distorted and forms an attempt to work with rhythm and pitches in an open and fluid way. --- Wound Response was first released on LP with Alt Vinyl, av038 (2012) and formed a radical departure for Davies’s solo work. Inspired by the ‘Destruction in Art Symposium’ (1966). Davies used two main techniques: over-articulate the strings (what harpists are taught notto do) and attack the strings with a plectrum, forcing the tuning into new relationships until the strings eventually broke. This is the first time that this album will be released on CD. “Wound Response is a raw recording scored for solo lap harp, overdrive, volume pedal and twin amplifiers. The fuzz is particularly cranky here, giving Rhodri’s obsessively repetitive harp soundings the kinda scorch of solo Masayuki Takayanagi.” - David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue 2012 ---

Rhodri Davies: Over ShadowsI / For ACSTelyn lifer a bwâu electroneg / Lever harp and EBowsRecordiwyd Gorffennaf 26 2004 yn yr Hen Ysgol, Bracon Ash, Norfolk.Source material recorded on 26th of July 2004 at the Old School, Bracon Ash, Norfolk. Cyfansoddwyd Mawrth 2006 / Composed in March 2006.Recordiwyd gan / Recorded by Graham Halliwell.Golygwyd gan / Edited by Benedict Drew and John Wall.Ail-feistrolwyd gan / Re-mastered by Sam Grant.Dylunio gan / Design by Anna Peaker.Darlun gan / Drawing by Jean-Luc Guionnet.Rhodri Davies solo recording for harp and ebows. "Over shadows" - title courtesy Redell Olsen's "Secure portable space" book - is a single track, 36 minutes long, for harp and eBow. The chief reference name in this composition could be Alvin Lucier, as Davies' subtle juxtaposition of resonant overtones elicits the typical effects of beating between frequencies on the one hand, and saturation on the othe. Moments of stunning loss of balance await, and it's just wonderful.  "Instead of immersive slo-mo, Davies keeps the music mobile, drawing the listener through a succession of warm, often dissonant, acoustic states. The result is like a speeded-up Eliane Radigue, as full, harmonically rich tones ease gently into one another. The evolution of the improvisation is alert and unforced, and each new phase feels part of a developing argument. Davies's work is about sound and sonic relationships rather than technique or spontaneous self-expression. Here, poised somewhere between improvisation and composition, he transforms the harp into a vibrant and responsive tone generator." - The Wire

* gyda offer taro, radio a pheiriant tâp / with percussion, radio and tape recorders.Recordiwyd y cyngherddau yn fyw yn ‘All Angels’ Llundain.Live at All Angels, St Michael and All Angels Church, West London.1, 2: Mai / May 10, 2001.4, 6: Tachwedd / November 22, 2001.3, 5, 7: Rhagfyr / December 7, 2001.Recordiwyd gan / Recorded by Tim Fletcher.Ail-feistrolwyd o DAT gan / Re-mastered from DAT by Sam Grant.Dylunio gan / Design by Anna Peaker.Darlun gan / Drawing by Jean-Luc Guionnet.Rhyddhawyd Trem yn gyntaf ar CD gan Recordiau Confront, Confront 11 (2002) ac yna ar finyl gan Alt Vinyl, av055 (2014).Trem was first released on CD with Confront Recordings, Confront 11 (2002) and on LP with Alt Vinyl, av055 (2014).Diolch i / Thank you to: Graham Thrower and Mark Wastell.Radical harpist Rhodri Davies revives his 2003 debut solo release 'Trem' with a reissue on his own label as a stark reminder of his uniquely inventive brilliance.Rhodri Davies Trem I / For Richard Rowlands, Pioneer Telyn bedal / Pedal harp * gyda offer taro, radio a pheiriant tâp / with percussion, radio and tape recorders. Radical harpist Rhodri Davies revives his 2003 debut solo release 'Trem' with a reissue on his own label as a stark reminder of his uniquely inventive brilliance. " One of the UK’s most vital, versatile, and combustible improvisers since the late ‘90s, Davies has earned a reputation as a fearless explorer of his historic instrument’s range, as applied on recordings with everyone from Apartment House to Richard Dawson & Hen Ogledd, Derek Bailey and even Charlotte Church. On ‘Trem’ we catch fire from a series of concert recordings made at St. Michael and All Angels Church, London, 2001 that manifest his prowess in multiple ways, making the harp gurn, shriek, rasp and sing in forms practically unheard previously from the stringed instrument that has been around, in some iteration or other, since 3000 BCE.  Without prior knowledge of context, you might be hard pushed to identify that Davies is even playing a harp, such is the dynamic range he elicits across ‘Trem’. His opener ‘Cresis’ makes haunting use of the church’s acoustic character in an unpredictable play of echoic negative space ranging from bat sonar like pips and half formed melodic structures resembling tortured choirs, thru to more gnarled evocations of doom metal, whereas the rapid plucks and vamps of ‘Undur’ hint at the instrument’s middle eastern provenance, and the album’s titular highlight also wields tape and percussion in a disorienting blizzard or noise masking its origins. In the tantalising high register tone and struck body of ‘Beres’ we hear traces of Romanian spectralist settings, and again a return to metal gnar in the buzzsaw grind of ‘Plosif’, while rupturing passages of near silence in ‘Berant’ and simmering it down to circling embers on ‘Atam’. " - Boomkat