Datblygu / Charlie Sharp - Can Y Mynach Modern (The Song Of The Modern Monk)

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4...according to our Ant on Thu 21 Aug, 2008.

From sunny LA to the mean streets of Wales with a spanking 7" from old peel faves Datblygu with 'Can Y Mynach Modern' which has an understated piano tinkling away with a welsh spoken word vocal. Brett reckons that David R.Edwards sounds like he has a chest infection. It's very different to the stuff they were doing years ago and lacks the attitude, but they sound like they've just gotten a bit older and chilled really but still have something to say. This however is the end and a final comment about how he felt when the band fell apart. A short but sweet closure to their legacy. As this is a split 7" on the flipside is a tune called 'Bombstar' by Charlie Sharp. Again this is a simple piano and vocal track full of passion and reminding me a little of John Cale.

ANKSTMUSIK are proud to announce the release of a brand new track from Welsh language music legends and perennial Peel favourites DATBLYGU.
Following on from THE PEEL SESSIONS collection released earlier in 2008 and the recent press interest in magazines such as PLAN B this 7" single
features a brand new track recorded in April by David R.Edwards and Pat Morgan. The track was the first time the band had recorded in nearly fifteen
years and is intended as a full stop on their legacy rather than a brand new start.
The song recounts (over its brief ninety seconds) the turmoil and sadness that engulfed the singer as the band fell apart in the mid nineties and the long road to recovery that resulted from the fallout. It is a fragile and unsettling piece of music that has no real precedent in the Welsh music scene.
The b side features BOMBSTAR a track especially chosen by Datblygu mainman David R.Edwards performed by singer Charlie Sharp to complement

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