Bendith – “Dinas” (City).

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Today I’d like to show you another piece from the beautiful project which was a result of collaboration of two, seemingly very distinct, Welsh band – alt-folk/psychedelic folk Plu (which consists of my most recent faza object Gwilym Bowen Rhys and his two sisters, Marged and Elan), and Carwyn Ellis from indie Colorama. – I wrote about that earlier because I shared with you two pieces from their collective album already. The project is called Bendith (which means blessing in Welsh) and this is also the title of the album. The album is very strongly inspired by Carwyn Ellis’ (who initiated the whole idea) fond childhood memories.

I love how this particular piece is so very atmospheric and evocative, and so rich and simply incredibly beautiful. It’s definitely one of my favourites from this album and I think there’s something totally captivating about it.

Bendith – “Lliwiau” (Colours).

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Today I have a very beautiful song for you from an album which is a result of collaboration between two quite distinctively different Welsh bands – Colorama (which is more like alternative rock with some psychedelic and indie stuff as well as folk motives thrown in there) and Plu (which is classified as alt-folk or psychedelic folk). They called this project, as well as the album that came out of it, Bendith, which means blessing in English. The album focuses on pleasant childhood memories and so generally feels rather nostalgic, more specifically it evolves around Carwyn Ellis’ (the leader of Colorama and the initiator of this collaboration) fond childhood memories of Carmarthenshire. Plu is one of the bands where Gwilym Bowen Rhys – the object of my most recent major faza as you may know – is involved as a singer, guitarist and other stringed instruments player. I love Plu so this album is very special to me, even though it’s not exactly what you’d expect from your typical Plu album. I shared one song from this album in the past and a few others from Plu. I think, despite it came out in February, it’s a great listen for autumn. And I wonder whether they’ll be doing something more together. This song is one of my favourites from this album because it sounds very much like the sound of Plu. It just has a great feel to it.

Song of the day (12th February) – Bendith – Mis Mehefin (June).

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At last I managed to catch up on my blog a bit and pick my songs of the two previous days in which I didn’t post at all. My winter break is over so I had to get into my normal routine and it was a lot going on lately.

So my song for Monday is another of those special songs for me, because of my current musical crush, Gwilym Bowen Rhys, being a part of the musical project who is performing this song. Bendith is the effect of collaboration between two Welsh bands, Plu (I shared one song of them with you not so long ago) and Colorama which is an electro band founded by Carwyn Ellis. Carwyn felt very inspired by what Plu have created and contacted with them asking if they would like to make something together. And the effect, I think, is really interesting. They released their first (and for now the only one) common album, it was also somewhere at the beginning of February. Bendith means “blessing” in Welsh.

As for the song, this is my absolute favourite song of their album. Usually I have a big trouble picking my favourite song from artists I really like, but in this case, “Mis Mehefin” was like my automatic choice. “Mis Mehefin” means “June” in Welsh and the song has the same mystic, soothing, slightly otherworldly, I’d say, climate, as Plu’s music has.

Hope you like it too. 🙂