Gai toms can i gymru

Portmeirion, Wales Gai Toms has embraced a range of experiences, and is yet hungry for more. Discography www. Your current browser isn't compatible with SoundCloud. Please download one of our supported browsers. Need help? Chrome Firefox Safari Internet Explorer. Something went wrong Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated? I need help.

The relationship between the book and the album is symbolically represented on the CD's cover, where Toms can be found in a Wales shirt, head bowed in solidarity, wearing a striking Indian headdress made of the feathers of native Welsh birds.

His last solo album, The Wild, the Tame and the Feral , was very good - bright, warm and accomplished and, unlike this time, sung in English throughout - but, with the exception of the title track, maybe just half a notch too polite.

Now there is renewed fire, and it is expressed fully in the music. The collection opens with the stunning Gwalia Latinised 'Wales', derived from the proto-German 'Walha' meaning foreigners.

Built around a long and haunting sample of Eleri Llwyd singing O Gymru , it has a resonant, dubbed-up Pink Floyd feel.

A majestic musical essay. Gwalia's heft is matched by the dramatic, magisterial centre piece Yr Hwyliau The Sails. The album is not without its lighter moments though - Chwyldro bach dy hun Personal revolution is breezy and uplifting, and the two tracks Lisa Angharad contributes vocals to, the elegant pop of Ewrop in the form of ornate operatic embellishment and Tafod a balmy duet , are particularly engaging.

Normal dances and shimmers by. There is humour too - Costa del Jeriatrica pointedly rhymes its title with 'swastika' over a bingo hall Bontempi beat; you don't need more than fragmentary Welsh to understand the song comes sharp tongued to repeatedly puncture the sad seaside souls of UKIPia with derision.