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My name's Carl Morris and this is my blog. It's about language, music, art, business and other stuff I care about.
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Category Archives: music
Welsh language music TV performances, 1973 to 1979
26 January 2010 – 10:01 PM
“Welsh language music TV performances, 1973 to 1979. Some awful, some classic” meddai’r aelod YouTube.
Gyda:
Edward H. Dafis (cantwr yn edrych fel Noddy Holder yma)
Sidan (dw i dal yn chwilio am eu halbwm cyntaf)
Crysbas
Huw Jones (cyd-sefydlydd Recordiau Sain. “Dŵr” / “Dwi isho bod yn Sais”)
Rhiannon Tomos a’r Band
Endaf Emlyn (gwefan)
Angylion Stanli
Shwn
Tecwyn Ifan
Mwg
Meic Stevens (“canwr dadleuol Meic [...]
Welsh Rare Beat and Galwad Y Mynydd
18 January 2010 – 3:58 AM
I’ve revisited these excellent albums now they’re on Spotify. So just wrote a post about them on the newly relaunched Clwb Malu Cachu.
http://clwbmalucachu.co.uk/cmcblog/2010/01/18/welsh-rare-beat-and-galwad-y-mynydd
2010: year of a thousand RATM-style campaigns?
11 January 2010 – 10:19 PM
I have two predictions for 2010.
Prediction one is that we will see lots of online campaigns around songs, inspired by Rage Against The Machines’s chart success in 2009. It will be easy to be dismissive and call these “copycat” campaigns but the idea of mobilising large groups of fans via social media is a seductive [...]
Gabriel
24 December 2009 – 8:00 PM
The tune Gabriel by cosmic disco band Kindness is probably among the more intriguing musical releases from 2009. (You should be able to play the whole track above. If not, try Kindness on Myspace or the Pitchfork blog post where I found it.)
Although lyrically apt, it’s not a Christmas song as such. But this is [...]
Allforia dy diwylliannau
16 October 2009 – 9:20 PM
This post is written in Welsh and is about lyrics as potential “by-products” of music which musicians could share. I don’t see many people doing this in Welsh language music. As ever, if you want the gist then Google Translate is your friend.
Ro’n i’n darllen post am isdeitlau agor gan Fred Wilson.
The larger point I [...]
Underpass makes tunes
21 August 2009 – 9:11 PM
Underpass is a Cardiff-based musician and DJ. Above is a video for a new tune from his new album. It reminds me of home.
He and I have a long history as colleagues and friends, including running a club night called Machine Meadow. It was 2004 and we wanted to DJ and book people we wanted [...]
Thoughts after Telstar (the film)
23 July 2009 – 2:37 AM
Telstar is a British film about 1960s record producer Joe Meek.
It’s been in some cinemas here for around a month and despite some decent press, apparently it hasn’t “grossed” much at the box office, which is a pity. Why? Influential though he is, Joe Meek was a producer not a performer and hence not an [...]
Six Decades of the 7″ Record
31 March 2009 – 12:00 AM
The 7″ record is 60 years old today!
Several have been manufactured since then. I have quite a few.
It is a wonderful format, bigger than a CD and rounder and blacker than a digital audio file.
Actually the very first one was not black, but green.
Thanks to Disgraceland for bringing this anniversary to my attention.