![]() You guys wanted to do some recordings together again, but with some guests, and invited me to come and do an on-site recording in an empty DIY cinema space. Sally and Dawn, when did you join? And how did you get involved?ĭ: I guess me and Sally broke up the band that was formerly Richard and Rhodri. Then Dawn came in and it got interesting, that's really when the band started. R: Well, I don't think we did form it really, it was really crap when it was just me and Rhodri. Richard and Rhodri, I know that you made music together anyway and were mates, but tell us about why you decided to work together on a project and form Hen Ogledd? Rh: Dawn is the crisp virtuoso, they can get any sound out of any crisp. What would you say is the best crisp packet to use for quality of tonal sound? Rh: On the previous album we had stuff like snow trumpets and was it the ‘pipe of the eyes’? It's on the humour spectrum.ĭ: I play synth as well, and bits and bobs of other things like gargling and chomping.ĭ: I was going to say we've got much more exciting throwaway instruments on our album credits including things like crisp packets and celery. Rh: I'm glad you acknowledge it as humour, at least, that's very kind. I was going to say, and bringer of deadpan humour. Rhodri: I'm the electric harpist, and agent provocateur. You’ve got to love the vocoder on Tiny Witch Hunter. Sally: I play synth, which includes some drums occasionally, and vocoder for Tiny Witch Hunter. The most boring instrument but it's also the best instrument. Their deft, surreal blending of the archaic and the modern is still experimental peppered with glitchy explorations of space, time-travel and technology, but their synth-heavy fusion of indie, pop and folk, full of soaring vocals, catchy hooks and melancholy means they are a good match for any more mainstream indie or dance outfits out there today.įollowing the release of their latest mini-album No Wood Allowed in November 2021 and their December tour, culture editor Kerry Mead caught up with them to talk about the nuts and bolts of how they make music together, reclaiming vocoders, aural time-travel, exactly who plays the sky trumpet and crisp packets on their albums, and where they might be heading next.įor those who might not be familiar with you yet, can you give us a quick rundown of what each of you bring to Hen Ogledd? ![]() Mogic brought Hen Ogledd to the attention of a much wider audience and paved the way for their 2020 album Free Humans, which The Guardian described as ‘a joyous constellation of “wonky” pop, free improvisation and sci-fi musing’. In the same year they released Mogic, an album which saw their loose, experimental leanings fuse with a more structured indie-pop sound. ![]() In 2018 artist and musician Sally Pilkington joined the lineup and they signed to Domino Music. If that doesn’t persuade you, in our opinion, they’re also one of the friendliest, laid back yet interesting group of artists out there.įormed in Newcastle by prog-folk behemoth Richard Dawson and harpist Rhodri Davies in 2012 as an experimental noise project, they were joined by singer and multi-instrumentalist Dawn Bothwell in 2015 for their third album Bronze. Writer(s): Richard Michael DawsonLyrics powered by you haven’t come across Hen Ogledd yet but love the sound of wonky, folkloric, fluoro-pagan electro-pop you’re just going to love them, believe us. Nano, nano, nano, nano, nanotechnology Bio, bio, bio, bio, biodiversity Human, human, human, human, human geography Astrobiology Can you feel my moon? Can you feel my lunar body? Northeast, southwest Up and down More or less Tiny! Tiny witch Tiny witch hunter Tiny! Tiny witch Tiny witch hunter Oh, oh-oh Oh, oh-oh Oh, yeah Molecular, molecular, molecular genetics Abracadabra, Abracadabra, numerology Neuro, neuro, neuro, neuro, neuro pathology Transmogrification Can you feel my moon? Can you feel my lunar body? Permafrost fob Liquid doorknob Tiny! Tiny witch Tiny witch hunter Tiny! Tiny witch Tiny witch hunter Oh, oh-oh Oh, oh-oh Oh, yeah Tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny witch hunter Laser, laser, laser, laser, laser-propelled Into, into, into, into, into the dark Searching for a flicker, flicker, flicker Can you feel my moon? Can you feel my lunar body? Over and over A sad supernova Tiny! Tiny witch Tiny witch hunter Tiny! Tiny witch Tiny witch hunter Oh, oh-oh Oh, oh-oh Oh, yeah Tiny! Tiny witch Tiny witch hunter Tiny! Tiny witch Tiny witch hunter Oh, oh-oh Oh, oh-oh Oh, yeah ![]()
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