Free live music at Galeri

Cerddoriaeth Fyw Gwener

Gwener 8 Hydref 2010

9yh  Morgan Lloyd, Y Maes, Caernarfon

Colorama / Alun Tan Lan

Dewch i wrando ar ddau grwp hynod dalentog, y ddau ar fin rhyddhau albyms newydd.

10yh   Y Castell, Y Maes, Caernarfon

Sian James / Gwilym Morus

Dewch am noson hwyr o wrando ar synnau bendigedig Sian a Gwilym

(Y ddau gig am ddim – a nid oes rhaid cofrestru i fynychu rhain)


Cerddoriaeth Fyw Iau

Thursday 7th October 2010

Galeri, Caernarfon

19:00     Yucatan

Perfformiad gan Yucatan, dylai ymdrochi Galeri gyda’u wal arallfydol o swn. Am flas cyn yr achlysur ewch i http://www.myspace.com/yucatanambyth

Cerddoriaeth Fyw Sadwrn

Saturday 11th September 2010

Doors – 7pm
Wales Millennium Centre
FREE entry
First come until capacity
No age limit

Event sponsored by PRS for Music and Wales Millennium Centre

Free concerts as Welsh Music Foundation takes over the foyer area of Wales Millennium Centre. It will be a fantastic way to spend a Saturday night, all free, all splendid.

Spencer McGarry Season

Spencer McGarry Season is a solo project with the aim to record six albums in sixdifferent styles. Following on from the 3 piece basic rock of last year’s Episode 1, Spencer returns with Episode 2, a baroque musical taking in Rogers & Hammerstein, Sondheim and Sparks along with SMiLE era Brian Wilson, the minimalism of Steve Reich and Sufjan Stevens. A 12 piece mini orchestra will attempt the cavalcade of increasingly intricate and wildly tangential song cycles and medleys.

“Awash with deft pocket-symphony touches, brassy asides and slivers of strings” Paul Lester,  The Guardian

“Eccentric and flamboyant” — Bethan Elfyn Radio 1

”Inventive, delightful, very musical, maybe slightly off kilter and out of time, both of which are compliments, yes?” David Leaf (Director ‘Beautiful Dreamer- Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile’)

www.myspace.com/spencermcgarry

El Goodo

Hailing from inside the valleys surrounded by the majestic mountains of South Wales, five piece multi-instrumental group, consisting of the talents of Pixy, Jason, Lewie, Matty and Elliott, El goodo, combine the mellow and melodious psychedelic sounds of the Beach Boys,The Byrds and Love, with beautiful and lusharrangements that call upon the mystical countryside from whence they came. The result is the creation of a mysterious, sweepingly grand, and at times whimsical approach to their already eclectic soundscape.

In 2005 they released their first self-titled, self-produced album, on the Super Furry Animals label Placid Casual, where they also opened for the Welsh psychedels, on their UK tour.El Goodo are a band worthy of critical and mass appeal; they have received accolades from both their home isle and the United States, touted as Artist of the Month by Spin Magazine in 2005 – their intoxicating second album: Coyote, received both a US and a UK release.

Coyote is both sprawling and hauntingly deserted, evoking a sonic landscape both richly cultivated and desolate, with intensely poetic harmonies and darkly articulated instrumentation.Coyote was produced by the band in a deserted theater and has brought together Cian Ciaran of the Super Furry Animals’ fame, to mix the album, as well as renowned artist Pete Fowler to capture the eloquence of the music for the album’s artwork. Coyote is a beautiful piece of darkly rich psych-pop perfection, brought to you 
by the new breed of Welsh pop wizards–El Goodo.

www.elgoodo.co.uk

Jonathan Powell

Jonathan has been in demand not only as a performer but also as a songwriter having recently co-written and recorded several tracks on Charlotte Church’s newalbum. His music has been described as ‘urban folk’ and whilst there are elements of country, punk, jazz and out-and-out pop, his music carries an immense emotional weight through lush melody and engaging story telling.

There is also a strong classical influence having studied the viola at the Royal Academy of Music, London from the early age of 16. For the past 6 months, Powell has been touring the UK and recently headlined at the ‘How The Light Gets In’ at Hay Festival followed by a performance at ‘The Marylebone Summer Fayre’, the ‘Beach Break Live’, ‘Hop Farm Festival’ and more recently the’Green Man Festival’.

www.myspace.com/jonathanpowellmusic

Friday Live Music

Dydd Gwener 10fed Medi

‘Yn fyw’

Drysau – 7pm

Canolfan y Mileniwm

Mynediad AM DDIM

Y cyntaf i’r felin

Croeso i bob oedran

Noddir y digwyddiad gan PRS for Music a Chanolfan y Mileniwm

Arweinydd y noson: Bethan Elfyn o Radio One Introducing in Wales

Cyflwynir mewn cydweithrediad â chwmnïau SWN a GRAB Productions

Future Of The Left

Ar y naill law, mae Future Of The Left yn fand tebyg iawn i lawer o fandiau eraill. Pedwar o ddynion, yn chwifio darnau o bren a metel gyda llinynnau a chroen arnynt, ac yn aml yn chwarae i lond ystafell o ddynion eraill sydd wedi meddwi fymryn ar lager cryf wedi ei lastwreiddio. Ar y llaw arall, fodd bynnag, gallwch gymryd y diffiniad mwyaf sylfaenol hwn a chael gwared ohono mewn unrhyw ffordd a ystyrir yn dderbyniol yn gymdeithasol ac yn gyfreithlon gan ddeddfau tipio anghyfreithlon.

Prif ganwr/gitarydd Future of the Left yw Andy Falkous, cyn aelod Mclusky, a chydag ef mae criw o aelodau newydd. Llwyddodd ail albym stiwdio’r grŵp, Travels with Myself and Another (4AD) i gael marc o 9/10 gan Drowned In Sound a Clash a 8/10 gan Pitchfork – nid bod hynny o bwys wrth gwrs. Maen nhw’n gweithio o Gaerdydd a bydd hyn yn swnllyd ac yn ardderchog.

www.futureoftheleft.com

We Are Animal

Mae WE ARE ANIMAL yn hanu o Eryri yn y Gogledd, lle maen nhw’n crwydro’r gwyllt yn myfyrio a chyfansoddi’r gerddoriaeth a’r melodïau sy’n creu sain y band. Mae’r ffaith eu bod yn bencampwyr ar gyfansoddi caneuon a bod ganddynt ddawn i greu cerddoriaeth afaelgar yn ei gwneud yn amhosibl i chi gredu mai dim ond ers ychydig fisoedd yn unig y maen nhw wedi bod wrthi.

Ond dyna’r gwir amdani – dechreuodd y band ym mis Rhagfyr 2009 a chyflawni llawer iawn, yn ganeuon a pherfformiadau byw ers hynny. Yn unol â’r etheg waith hon mae’r band yn recordio’u holl ganeuon ar y diwrnod y cânt eu hysgrifennu, ac eithrio un neu ddau o rannau lleisiol, ar BOSS 8 track mewn amryw o leoliadau megis hen chwareli ac adeiladau anghyfannedd sydd wedi eu gwasgaru drwy gefn gwlad Cymru. Mae’r ymagwedd ddiymhongar hon tuag at ddulliau DIY o wneud a chynhyrchu recordiadau yn golygu fod cyfanswm eu cynnyrch yn llawn cynnwrf, yn swynol gyda melodi ‘cool’ gyfrin yn treiddio drwy’r cwbl. Mae WE ARE ANIMAL yn gobeithio gallu arbrofi eu sain yn y sîn yr ŵyl yr haf hwn yn ogystal â pharhau i deithio’n ddiddiwedd o un rhan o’r DU i’r llall.

Rhyddhawyd ‘1268’ ar Fehefin 7fed drwy TOO PURE SINGLES CLUB

Mae ‘Idolise’ (yr album gyntaf) ar gael drwy iTUNES a bydd yn cael ei rhyddau mewn fformat CD erbyn mis Hydref

Dyma’r fideo : www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z70FbdPVN8

www.myspace.com/weareanimal

Exit International

Wedi ei greu o weddillion Midasuno a The Martini Henry Rifles, mae’r triawd dwy gitâr fas o Gaerdydd ‘EXIT_INTERNATIONAL (E_I) yn rhyddhau eu E.P ‘Sex W/ Strangers’ ym mis Gorffennaf 2010 gydag Undergroove Records. Cychwynnodd y band fel arbrawf yn unig i berfformio slot cefnogi ar gyfer The Melvins (ond cafodd y band – a ddefnyddiai enw arall ar y pryd – ei dynnu oddi ar y rhaglen ar y diwrnod). Erbyn hyn mae’r band wedi mabwysiadu arlwy gerddorol gyfyngedig iawn ac yn rhedeg gan sgrechian i adeilad ar dân gyda’r syniad. Mae ‘llai’ yn sicr yn ‘fwy’ yn achos E_I. Yn dilyn nifer o ddarnau arddull ‘Bandiau i’w gwylio yn 2010′, ar ôl clywed E_I ar-lein aeth Eli Janney (o Girls Against Boys) ati yn bersonol i drefnu fod Alternative Press yn rhoi sylw i’r band yn eu rhagolygon.

Drwy greu cryn sŵn – a than ddylanwad eu hoffter o Girls Against Boys, Nirvana, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Pixies a The Blood Brothers, mae E_I wedi dod yn bosibilrwydd cynhyrfus – gan fanteisio ar y ffaith nad oes ganddynt yr hen gitâr 6 llinyn yn y broses, sydd wedi bod yn destun siarad sawl gwaith yn yr adolygiadau ‘rave’ a’r adolygiadau a gafodd y band hyd yma yn y wasg. Mae hoff berfformiadau’r band wedi cynnwys perfformiadau yng ngŵyl SWN 2009, prif sioe ar gyfer Rock Sound Magazine, noson Artrocker Club, yn ogystal ag mewn sioeau ochr yn ochr â The Bronx, Pulled Apart By Horses, The 80’s Matchbox B-line Disaster, The Computers, Cri me in Stereo, Baddies a The King Blues. Dewiswyd y diweddaraf i chwarae ar y BBC Introducing Stage yng Ngŵyl Reading a Leeds