"Opening track Helynt Ryfeddol (An Incredible Ordeal) introduces a folk story about an old man drawn towards the purest music he has ever heard, sung by a bird, to which he listens until it stops. He returns home to find his house entirely changed and lived in by different people. Seven tracks later, the title track tells us that the bird was an angel, and that the man went away for 350 years, never to be seen again."
"The piano returns for Angel, but Hafana also builds striking patterns on their best-known instrument, the Welsh triple harp, and draws from Breton influences, including folk dance rhythms and a call-and-response technique, kan ha diskan. Hafana's approach is endlessly inventive. On Drexelius and the minimalist An Dro (A Turn), they dampen the triple harp's resonant strings with the addition of Blu-Tack;"
Angel Angel is Cerys Hafana's first release on Glitterbeat's subsidiary and the third release by the musician in eighteen months. The album opens with a folk story about an old man captivated by a bird's pure music, later revealed as an angel whose song results in a 350-year disappearance. Piano, Welsh triple harp and Breton influences such as folk dance rhythms and kan ha diskan shape the arrangements. Experimentation appears in dampened harp strings using Blu-Tack, piano-saxophone interplay and icy double bass counterpoints. Tracks range from delicate farewells and echoes to hymnlike meditations on the life cycle, music and the passage of time.
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