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| OUT TODAY! VRï release their new single and video 'Aberhonddu' bendigedig is delighted to announce the release of Aberhonddu, the new video and digital single from VRï's forthcoming album 'islais a genir'. Aberhonddu, the Welsh name for Brecon, is VRï's reworking of one of the classic traditional welsh songs and releases on all major platforms on Friday 7th October. Two hundred years ago, a soldier called T. I. Williams was preparing to leave his barracks in Aberhonddu (Brecon) to go to Guernsey, a strategically crucial island in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars. Those wars were weighing heavy on the mind of our young recruit; many people from his community had left to fight in them, never to return, and the ultimate sacrifice might well be required of him too. The green hills that lay gentle all around were especially beautiful on that last evening. This was home, the place where he was born, where his mother and father lived, where everything he loved existed. All those feelings, he put into this song. Jordan Price William's father was also a soldier, and his name is also T Williams. For a while he was stationed in the same barracks as his early 19th century namesake–The Watton in Brecon. "My father died nine years ago, so when I saw the writer's initials, it was an eerie moment of coincidence, " he says. "My father was a very proud man who believed that his commitment to the army came before anything else. So this song is about sacrifice, yes, but what draws me to it most is the knowledge that this man would have made not just one sacrifice but hundreds of small ones in everyday life, just as my father did. I guess that's the main human narrative running through all these songs. There's a huge amount I wish I could have said to my father before he died, so I suppose on some level this song is a catharsis for me–a way of trying to understand the compromises he made through the words of someone who made similar ones as in a very different time." Aberhonndu is the second track on VRï's second album islais a genir (a sung whisper) which releases worldwide on 28th October on the bendigedig label. Recorded in Pembrokeshire at StudiOws, the album features Beth Celyn as guest vocalist on several tracks. islais a genir is VRï's second album, and their first release on the bendigedig label, the team behind Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita's award-winning albums ECHO and SOAR, and The Rheingans Sisters Receiver. Aberhonddu has been filmed by Andrew Lawson of Fieldgate Studios on location at Mwnt in the heart of Cardigan Bay, with kind permission from Holy Cross Church, Mwnt, Ceredigion. VRï are: Patrick Rimes - Vocals, Harmonium, Viola, Fiddle, Feet Jordan Price Williams - Vocals, Cello, Double Bass, Harmonium Aneirin Jones - Vocals, Fiddle write your comments about the article :: © 2022 Jazz News :: home page |