foobar2000 1.1.15 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2020-07-23 15:04:57
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Analyzed: 9bach / Ar y 9
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 0.00 dB -12.93 dB 4:36 01-Pa Bryd y Deui Eto?
DR12 0.00 dB -13.49 dB 4:17 02-Llyn Du
DR10 0.00 dB -11.90 dB 5:09 03-Anian
DR10 0.00 dB -12.13 dB 4:33 04-Yr Olaf
DR11 0.00 dB -12.60 dB 3:07 05-Pontypridd
DR10 0.00 dB -14.09 dB 5:49 06-Plentyn
DR9 0.00 dB -11.01 dB 5:28 07-Wedi Torri
DR9 0.00 dB -12.35 dB 5:44 08-Cyfaddefa
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Number of tracks: 8
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1558 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Об исполнителях (рус.) | About Artists (ru)
9Bach
9Bach – альтернативная фолк-группа, сформированная уэльской певицей и автором песен Лайзой Джен, а также гитаристом Мартином Хойлэндом. Группа была создана в 2005 году и тогда их репертуар, главным образом, состоял из традиционных народных песен на валлийском языке. Как точно подметил Борис Гребенщиков: «Они берут "темное наследие уэльского фолка", добавляют к этому все, что им нравится и – в итоге – эти песни звучат не так, как будто они были написаны сто лет назад или пятьсот или тысячу, а так, будто они были написаны прямо сегодня…» В 2015 году их второй альбом Tincian получил премию BBC Radio 2, как "лучший альбом в категории фолк". Группа записывается под патронатом Питера Гэбриэла на его студии Real World Records. https://www.last.fm/ru/music/9bach/+wiki
Об исполнителях (англ.) | About Artists (en)
9Bach
9Bach was formed by Lisa Jen and Martin Hoyland in 2005. The name is a play on numbers and words. Lisa: "9 is as in Nain, (pronounced nine), which means grandmother in the North of Wales; Bach means little and is also a term of endearment in Welsh. In one language 9 is something so mundane as a number, but in Welsh Nain is a cozy, family-orientated, lovely thing. Your grandmother is a person we can relate to and visualise."
Lisa on vocals, harmonium, and piano and Martin on guitars and percussion are joined by Ali Byworth (drums and percussion), Dan Swain (bass guitar), Esyllt Glyn Jones (harp, vocals), and Mirain Roberts (vocals).
9Bach’s music is an atmospheric, evocative, and emotional hybrid of the Welsh folk tradition, and of contemporary influences and working practices. Building on a deepened, almost ambient sound picture, the songs take you into the landscape and the emotions that it evokes. Music is a living thing, not a museum piece, and the way that 9Bach compose and perform reflect this.
“The only folk technique we use is in the song. Lisa tells a story in the folk tradition, either in the first person, or in the third person. We also generally arrange our songs in the folk tradition; we don’t really adhere to the verse, bridge, chorus structure of standard pop or rock music. This in turn demands something different from the drums, bass, and guitar, than your standard approach. The drum and bass will set a strong groove to sway to, and the guitars will weave in and out, creating atmospherics, as the harp does too.”
“Then we take a modern dance approach to the instrumentation, grooves and loops, parts coming in and out, but done with real instruments, and sometimes putting interesting effects on them to create the ambience.”
9Bach’s songs reflect their strong roots in home and their frequent international travels. They have played live in Spain, Holland, and Canada and travelled to Australia to collaborate with the Black Arm Band Company —a groundbreaking music and theatre company focusing on Australian Aboriginal experience and identity. Lisa is also a long-term vocal collaborator with Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals: she featured on the Candylion album, and sang live on the Candylion/ Hotel Shampoo tour dates.
The tension and interaction between local and international informs the group’s songwriting. As Lisa says: “I don’t do heartbreak and ballads. I have nothing to report on those kinds of themes. I’m a very emotional person; I get moved very easily, but by nature, the ghosts of our ancestors, the mountains, the history of the quarry, and the men that slaved there. My imagination is very vivid and I often make stories up and convince myself they are true.”
During the last two decades, there has been an upsurge in international awareness of Welsh language music. As Lisa says, “for us, writing and singing in Welsh is the most normal thing to do; it’s instinctive. We’ve had a few queries and comments asking why do we sing in Welsh when we could make more money singing in English? The answer is Welsh is my first language… my creative brain and ideas swim in the small streams that run into the crystal clear lakes— LLyn Idwal, Llyn Ogwen, the Ogwen Valley. I can’t escape that, it’s in you if you’ve been breathing this air since forever.”
“The language comes hand-in-hand with the landscape, your culture, and the stories you tell. It comes out in the music, which will inevitably make it different to English music. I don’t feel our music ‘sounds’ particularly Welsh on this album, but it is specific to here because that’s where it’s from. For our music to be heard outside of Wales it has to sound different and unique to the Anglo —American music that dominates the world’s mainstream music. Non-Welsh speakers can pick up on the mood and understand it through the music and vibe. There are so many languages worldwide in the same situation as Welsh; people do get it.” https://www.9bach.com/biog
Об альбоме (англ.) | About Album (en)
Info for 'Ar y 9'
Ar y 9 is an 8-track live album recorded during the band’s celebratory UK tour of 2019, in support of the 10th anniversary re-release of their debut album. The recording features songs from each of their studio albums, 2009’s 9Bach, 2014’s Tincian and 2016’s Anian, all available on Real World Records.
‘Ar y 9’ is the equivalent Welsh expression to the English “dressed up to the nines” and reflects the band’s feeling after the addition of Andy Gangadeen to the line-up, whose more electronic sensibility and unique drumming style are evident in the recording. It also acts as a nice counter-point the previously released acoustic Noeth EP (Naked EP, in English).
Though subtle, Gangadeen’s presence is an important new dimension to the 9Bach sound, and at the very least reflects the band’s continued, perhaps renewed, desire to push the boundaries of what’s possible in the intersecting world of Lisa Jen’s song-writing and traditional Welsh folk music.
“From first seeing 9Bach, I was bowled over by their unique sound,” says Gangadeen, “so when I was asked if I’d be up for doing a collaboration with them —and then playing live— I jumped at the chance. On this tour I tour started introducing more textures to the set, but it’s the space in their music which allows the beauty of 9Bach’s frontline to stand out so I was very mindful of not ‘filling the space’ with electronics and beats as this would actually take away from 9Bach’s key elements…” https://realworldrecords.com/releases/ar-y-9/
Состав | Artists
Lisa Jên (llais, harmonium / piano, vocals)
Martin Hoyland (gitâr / guitars & hammer dulcimer)
Mirain Haf Roberts (llais / vocals, piano & hammer dulcimer)
Dan Swain (gitâr bâs & bâs dwbwl / bass guitar & double bass)
Esyllt Glyn Jones (telyn, llais / harp, vocals)
Andy Gangadeen (drymiau, o erynnau taro / drums, percussion)
Lyrics and melody: Lisa Jên Brown
Music and arrangements: Martin Hoyland and Lisa Jên Brown, except ‘Pa Bryd y Deui Eto?’ and ‘Pontypridd’, traditional arranged by Hoyland, Brown, Glyn Jones, Swain, Byworth.
Performed by: Andy Gangadeen, Dan Swain, Esyllt Glyn Jones, Lisa Jên Brown, Martin Hoyland and Mirain Haf Roberts.
Recorded live on tour in the UK in October 2019 by Andy Carrington.
Mixed at Real World Studios by Oli Jacobs.
Thanks to Audio Technica for supplying microphones.
Photography by Tom Oldham.
Design by Marc Bessant.
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