John Tose Welsh Pipes: Welsh Pipes album `Cerrig Dymuniad'

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Welsh Pipes album `Cerrig Dymuniad'

A couple of weeks ago I finally got round to uploading the album I made in 2007 to Bandcamp. `Cerrig Dymuniad' is basically myself on Welsh bagpipes - Bacbib and Pibau Cyrn - plus a bit of Medieval double chanter bagpipes, pibgorn, bass pibgorn (that's just a really big pibgorn fitted with a clarinet mouthpiece), and recorder; Jez King (of The Mordekkers) on percussion, and who also recorded the album for me in his barn studio in Pembrokeshire; and Stef Balesi (also of The Mordekkers) on crwth on a couple of tracks.

Truth is though, it's only in the last year or so that our internet connection could have coped with the upload - Bandcamp needs you to upload music as wav files, which for `Cerrig Dymuniad' works out at about 450 Mb, and took about 3 hours to upload!

Another thing which I should have done a long time ago and have finally gotten round to is to create a tunebook to go with the album. That is, all the tunes from the album written down exactly as I play them. I've added a pdf of the tunebook to the album download on Bandcamp as a free extra.

Full track listing for `Cerrig Dymuniad' is:

1. Hyd y Frwynen / Bwrlwm
2. Morfa Rhuddlan / Digan y Pibydd Goch
3. Y Crwtyn Llwyd / Philomela / Y Hwch yn y Haidd
4. Jig Arglwydd Caernarfon / Dawns y Tylwyth Teg
5. Lloyd's Whim
6. The tune of Morfydd's Pipes / Mwynen Glan Teifi / Y Twmpathe
7. Gwynt o'r Glan / Spanish Minuet / Jig Heb Enw
8. Meillionen o Feirionnydd
9. Mae'r Flwyddyn yn Marw / Dyma Gariad fel y Moroedd
10. Ffarwel i dre Caernarfon Lon / Harlech / Brig y Brwyn
11. Lloer Dirion, Lliw'r Dydd

http://johntose.bandcamp.com

3 comments:

Cheshire Pilgrim10 February 2015 at 13:53
Glad to see you've got the album back out there John. It really is a lovely set of tunes with some wonderful playing on it too. It's definitely one of my favourite bagpipe albums and one of only a handful that I keep returning to. Really good stuff!
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beca6 April 2015 at 05:22
my email is info@lahorrox.com
Thanks Rebecca
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beca6 April 2015 at 05:23
I'm interested to record you for a sound commission set in Snowdonia, how can I contact you? Would you send me your email?!

Thanks Rebecca
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Welsh Pipes

In 1784, Edward Jones wrote: `The musical instruments, anciently used in Wales... are six in number, the Telyn, or harp; the Crwth; the Pibgorn, or Horn-pipe; the Pibau-cod, or Pib-braich; that is, the Bag-pipes, or the arm-pipes: the Tabwrdd, Tabret or Drum; and the Corn-buelin, Cornet.'
Since then various attempts have been made to revive interest in these old instruments. The Welsh Triple Harp has regained much popularity, but also the Pibgorn and various Welsh Bagpipes. Based in Pembrokeshire, John Tose has been a leading maker of both Pibgyrn and Pibau-cod since the late nineties. Although there are no surviving examples except of the pibgorn, various designs have been developed based on period illustrations and references.