I Fyw I Fôd

by Bush Gothic & Angharad Jenkins

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In 1852 David Merlyn Jones wrote a ballad titled  
'Cyngor cyfaill i dri o wyr ieuainc, pan oeddynt yn cychwyn i Australia'  Befriending advice to three young men, when they set off for Australia

The ballad has been sitting in the Welsh National Library as a lovely tattered old broadsheet until Angharad Jenkins & Bush Gothic restored it to life with a new musical arrangement. It’s new title is taken from the last line of the ballad: I Fyw I Fôd.

Invited to perform at the Welsh National Eisteddfod but unable to attend due to the global pandemic, Bush Gothic collaborated with Welsh composer and fiddler Angharad Jenkins, exploring what it is to be Welsh, to be Australian, to be human, to be folk. In partnership with the National Celtic Festival a team of ten artists and technicians across two hemispheres and four homes collaboratively composed, recorded and produced new arrangements of old Welsh songs with accompanying film clips.

lyrics

Trwy’ch bywyd yn hyfryd bo’r hynt
 I lanau Australian’n dra thirion.

Cael Aur y Wlad hono i’ch côd 
A deuwch ‘r ol hyny, tan ganu
I Gymru I fyw I fôd

TRANSLATION
Experience pleasure every minute through your life.
Sure as the wind, off you go to the gentle shores of Australia.

Get the gold of that land and after that,  
Come home singing to Wales, to live and to be

credits

released October 20, 2020
LYRICS David Merlyn Jones, arr by Jenny M. Thomas
MUSIC: Dan Witton, Jenny M. Thomas, Chris Lewis, Angharad Jenkins

Angharad Jenkins - violin
Dan Witton - programming, piano
Chris Lewis - programming, drum kit
Jenny M Thomas - vocals, violin, viola

Recorded in the musicians homes by the musicians.
Mixing Engineer - Justin Marshall
Mastering Engineer - Lachlan Carrick

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Bush Gothic Melbourne, Australia

BBC Music Magazine - 5 STARS, World Music Albums of the year 2016,
fRoots Album of the Year 2016: Runner Up. Adelaide Fringe Festival Best Music Weekly Award 2017 & 2018. Defiantly modern, achingly old, Bush Gothic re-imagine songs of heartbreak and tragedy amongst convicts, desperate miners and criminal women. ... more

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