Homeward Annwyl by Aros E-V

Homeward Annwyl helps answer a guiding question in Aros E-V's work: What is our music and what is the world's? Those familiar with Welsh folksong will recognize Morfa Rhuddlan at the album's outset. While this is the most explicit reference to music that isn't his own, each track has roots in songs first documented centuries ago. Every week for six months, Aros E-V played for a mic on the family coffee table – he'd start with an ancestral folk song and improvise until it felt like he said something back. These source recordings were bright and tactile, as if his guitar bounced through the living room. He braided them with weighty and feathered digital responses, ultimately finding new expressions of generations-old music in these disparate sounds.

electronic sounds to peel open your mind
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Minneapolis, Minnesota.