Available to purchase from Bandcamp: https://marcdauncey.bandcamp.com/album/llwyn-cysegredig-sacred-grove

This is my second album. Its a collection of my best ambient and classical work from the last couple of years - a welsh language-titled series of meditations on the ancient world of Britain prior to the Romans, before the saxons arrived. The language of Britain would have been ancient welsh. Our faith was polytheistic and involved worship of female deities in the form of the three faced goddess, as well as a plethora of other gods governing fertility, the land and the welsh afterlife / otherword, Annwd. At this time, celts were regarded as the greeks of Northern Europe. Experts in technology of the time, including exquisitely crafted weapons and culture and art. Languages associated with the celts have largely disappeared in mainland europe but they still survive and are spoken in Britain and Ireland today, in the form of Gaelic and Welsh. 

Some of my work is inspired by the Mabinogion, the oldest British literature on record, and a mere fragment of what was destroyed by successive invaders who brought christianity with them, and literally built their churches over our sacred groves. If you encounter a church in Britain that has a yew tree, that's a sign it was once a holy pagan site. The Mabinogion represents pre christian welsh mythology and it also discusses King Arthur and Merlin (Brenin Arthur and Myrddin in Welsh)

It was important to me as a welsh man to present these songs in a welsh context. Our contribution to the history of this country and Europe in general is mostly overlooked. I want to honour and recognise that culture with my art, and I hope you enjoy it too.

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Llwyn Cysegredig ("Sacred Grove") Release Version

Available to purchase from Bandcamp: marcdauncey.bandcamp.com/album/llwyn-…sacred-grove

Gwledd Cernunnos (Feast of Cernunnos)

Ysgyfarnog Gysegredig (Sacred Hare)

"One of the most famous associations of the Deadly Nightshade is its connection to mythology, folklore and witchcraft. In antiquity, the plant was associated with the cult of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and ecstasy, and it was allegedly mixed for a drink that could induce a trance in worshippers. On a more sinister note, it also features in the myth of Odysseus, whose men were - legend has it - poisoned with nightshade and then turned into pigs by the witch Circe.

In times of the Roman Empire, Deadly Nightshade was rumoured to be Livia’s ‘weapon of choice’ to poison her husband, the Emperor Augustus. Allegedly, the Roman troops also coated arrow-heads with a paste made from the plant to poison their enemies.

Deadly Nightshade featured heavily in so-called witches’ ingredients and was closely associated with the Devil. For example, parents on occasion told their children that if they ate the plant’s berries they would meet the Devil in person - this was a tale told to help them avoid the berries. It was also apparently one of the ingredients that allowed witches’ to fly, something they experienced in hallucinations caused by a combination of plants."

Ceirios y Gŵr Drwg ("Belladonna")

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Lle mae'r lleuad yn cwrdd â'r môr ("Where the moon meets the sea")

Llwybr wedi gordyfu ("The Overgrown Path")

Welsh musician and composer. If you like my stuff, please like, repost / share. And follow for more tunes

Ceirios y Gŵr Drwg ("Belladonna")

Marc Dauncey