Galwad Y Mynydd - Galwad Y Mynydd

Galwad Y Mynydd defined a Dyfed-centric harmonic gentle vocal sound. Formed by brothers Alwyn (17) and Eifion (16) Daniels, their Camarthen grammar school friend Derek Brown (18), and Camarthen Technical College student Mike Harries (19) on drums, Galwad Y Mynydd (The Call Of The Mountain) ticked all the right boxes in their quest to deliver, in their own words, “a new style of contemporary Welsh folk music”.
•Choosing musicality over volume, beauty and heartache over protest and politics, they were a young anomaly in Welsh language pop. Songs such as ‘Can Cadwaladr’ were aimed at the dancefloors of a new breed of Welsh language pop soundsystem that mushroomed in the 1970s, spearheaded by the charismatic and bearded DJ Mici Plwm.
•GYM clearly understood their audience and were winners of the pop group competition at the 1972 Pontrhydfendigaid eisteddfod. They were, however, never to achieve their ambition of becoming a fully formed professional outfit, rather they were the opening act of a scene of bands that eventually morphed into smooth folk rock college super group Hergest.
•The follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘Welsh Rare Beat’ compilation and accompanying album to the new ‘Welsh Rare Beat 2’ compilation, this album features exclusive liner notes from Gruff Rhys and Derek Brown (in Welsh).
•These two EPs have previously been unavailable on CD, or indeed anywhere outside of their original 7” EP releases.

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