This track comes from a live video, well worth watching! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHmeVKMVMaQ

Recorded and filmed live at Oak Wren Studio and produced by Juliette Daum on 29th July, 2022.  The video which premiered on the 'noson gelf, art night', arts show, produced and broadcasted from Aberystwyth, at amam.cymru/cultureconomy .  
This is my arrangement of a traditional Welsh folk song that dates back to the early 15th century.  At first glance it appears to be a kind of Welsh version of, 'Who Killed Cock Robin?', because it speaks of the murder of the Lark by the hawk, and how the Swallow tells of the Faeries' distress over the issue despite their flower magic and crystals.  In fact, the song uses bird names as codenames for real people who were having to hide their actual identities and live as outlaws.

Between 1400 and 1415, Wales was in the grip of rebellion against the English crown and a war of independence, led by Owain Glyndwr who was deemed as being the legitimate and native Prince of Wales.  His vision was for a free Welsh nation, with it's own laws, church and universities.
Ultimately, the rebellion failed and severe anti Welsh laws were put in place on a land ravaged by warfare.  Glyndwr himself disappeared and was never caught and many from his armies had to live as outlaws, never able to return to their former homes and lives for fear of being horribly executed and their families being punished too.

These outlaws hid in the hills, still having to fight the English soldiers searching for them; the outlaw band called ,'y Gwylliaid Cochion', or 'the Wild Reds/Red Bandits' because of their hair colour, were infamous and lived in the hills north of Machynlleth for several generations after the rebellion, being most prominent in the 16th century.  

In this song, the Lark, is a fallen soldier who lies on the mountainside, killed by the Hawk, which represents English soldiers searching the high peatlands, with their 'guilty, cowardly hearts beating like those of murderers'.  
The outlaws discuss fetching the body home with a troop of armed men, while an outlaw called, the Swallow tells them that the Fair People/Faeries have made an 'ark of crystals covered with apple wood to bring the body back'.  
The old soldiers of Glyndwr's forces, lament that in spite of bringing an army of armed men and scaring off the Hawk, and in spite of all the crystals, flowers and skills of the Fair People, the song of the Lark won't be returning home.

Marwnad Yr Ehedydd (An Elegy for the Lark.)

Yn y bennod gyntaf hon trafodwn y gerdd (neu’r casgliad o gerddi cysylltiedig) a briodolir i’r bardd Aneirin, gan archwilio dadleuon sy’n cefnogi – ac sy’n herio – y gred gyffredin mai’r farddoniaeth hon yw’r testun llenyddol Cymraeg cynharach sydd wedi goroesi. A yw’n bosib bod gwaith llenyddol am frwydr a ymladdwyd tua’r flwyddyn 600 yn yr Hen Ogledd (sef de’r Alban a gogledd Lloegr) wedi’i gadw mewn llawysgrif Gymraeg o’r 13eg ganrif? Beth mae’r Gododdin yn dweud wrthym am y traddodiad barddol Cymraeg yn gyffredinol? A beth yw tarddiad y gair Cymraeg ‘meddwi’ a beth a wnelo hynny â’r Gododdin? Dyma rai o’r cwestiynau sydd dan sylw.

In the beginning there was the Gododdin (well, maybe . . .)
In this first episode we discuss the poem (or the collection of connected poems) attributed to the bard Aneirin, examining arguments which support – and which challenge – the common belief that this poetry is the oldest surviving Welsh literary text. Is it possible that a literary work about a battle fought around the year 600 in the ‘Old North’ (that is, southern Scotland and northern England) was preserved in a Welsh manuscript from the 13th century? What does the Gododdin tell us about the Welsh bardic tradition? And what is the origin of the Welsh word meddwi, ‘to get drunk’, and what does that have to do with the Gododdin? These are some of the questions considered.

Cyflwynwyd gan: Yr Athro Jerry Hunter a'r Athro Richard Wyn Jones
Cynhyrchwyd gan: Richard Martin
Cerddoriaeth: Might Have Done gan The Molenes

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Tanysgrifwch yn eich hoff ap podlediadau i derbyn y pennod nesaf ar cyhoeddiad.

Darllen pellach:
- Ifor Williams (gol.), Canu Aneirin (Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1938
  [adargraffiad: 1978])
- A. O. H. Jarman (gol. a chyf.), Aneirin: Y Gododdin [:] Britain’s Oldest Heroic 
 Poem (Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1990),
- Kenneth H. Jackson, The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish Poem (Caeredin:
  Edinburgh University Press, 1969).
- John T. Koch, The Gododdin of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North 
 Britain (Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1997).
- Patrick Sims-Williams, ‘Dating the Poems of Aneirin and Taliesin, Zeitschrift für
  Celtische Philologie 63 (2016), 163-234.

Further reading:
- A. O. H. Jarman (ed. and trans.), Aneirin: Y Gododdin [:] Britain’s Oldest Heroic 
 Poem (Llandysul: Gomer, 1990),
- Kenneth H. Jackson, The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish Poem (Edinburgh:
  Edinburgh University Press, 1969).
- John T. Koch, The Gododdin of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North 
 Britain (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997).
- Patrick Sims-Williams, ‘Dating the Poems of Aneirin and Taliesin, Zeitschrift für
  Celtische Philologie 63 (2016), 163-234.

Pennod 1 - Yn y dechreuad yr oedd... Y Gododdin (wel, efallai...)

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Yn ystod mis hanes LHDTC+, gweithiodd yr artist Tom Marshman gyda 4 cymuned cwiar lleol, 4 sefydliadau, a 4 ymarferydd perfformio i edrych ar Adran 28 a'i heffaith barhaus ar draws Cymru. Cynhaliodd gyfarfodydd cymunedol trwy bartïon te, gan gasglu straeon personol a myfyrdodau ar Adran 28.  Cynhaliwyd partïon te ym Mhontio Bangor, Theatr Sherman Caerdydd gan bartneru gyda National Theatre Wales, Aberration yng Nghanolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth a'r Torch, Aberdaugleddau. Mynychwyd pob parti te gan artist gwadd, naill ai'n dod o Gymru neu'n byw yng Nghymru, a gomisiynwyd i greu micro-berfformiad. Mae'r podlediad hwn yn gyflwyniad yn Gymraeg i'r podlediad llawn.

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This is from a poem, in the Welsh language (Cymraeg), by Harri Webb, and set to music.  It was written in the 1960s as a protest against the erosion of the Welsh culture through the exploitation of Wales' resources, with none of the benefits or profits reaching the Welsh population.  Specifically, inspired by the destruction of a Welsh community, Capel Celyn, in order to build a reservoir to feed the city of Liverpool, outside Wales' borders.  Cofiwch Dryweryn!

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A reggae-style remix I produced of the Price is Right Cliff Hangers music. The original title is On the Franches Mountains and it is by the Jura Orchestra. It can be found on an out of print LP called Swiss Mountain Music.

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