Sgwrs:Keltia Rok

message: Keltia Rok is a compilation LP, released on the Welsh Recordiau Sain label. It is notable for being the first (and up to 2020) the only LP to include contemporary rock and pop songs in all six Celtic languages. It includes the first ever rock songs released in the Cornish and Manx languages. The album was released to coincide with the National Eisteddfod in Porthmadog in August 1987. It was distributed as a vinyl LP (Sain 1412M) and as a cassette (Sain C612N) and was distributed by Revolver / The Cartel of Bristol.
thread_title:  English translation for Celtic Editathon 

message: The record was organised by Davyth Fear, who at that time was General Secretary of the Celtic League. The reverse of the LP cover contained a number of advertisments for Celtic language organisations, which helped pay for the pressing. The front cover contains an image of the Welsh rap group Llwybr Llaethog, who also recorded for Recordiau Sain.
thread_title: Background and recording

message: The album was reviewed by a number of music magazines and journals. Dulais Rhys in the Welsh weekly newspaper ‘Y Faner’ thought it an interesting selection with an excellent cover. Adrian Tierney-Jones in the NME highlighted it as a contemporary record, with some songs ‘warming the cockles of the Celtic heart’. ‘Ultimately’, he said, ‘the record’s real significance is that these languages are alive and not dead museum fodder’.  According to ‘Keltoi – a Pan-Celtic Review’, the release of the record helped to connect the rock movements in the Celtic languages. According to the journal ‘Welsh Music History’, it was a great step forward for comtemporary culture in the Celtic nations.
thread_title: Reviews

message: # 	Artist                 	Song                     	English translation         	Nation	Writer(s)
1 	Eirin Peryglus         	Glawogydd                	Rains                       	      	music and lyrics – Eirin Peryglus
2 	Brian Webb             	Tan y’n Golon            	Fire in the heart           	      	music and lyrics –Webb
3 	Rinne Mamaí Ciste Milis	Brionglóidí              	Dreams                      	      	lyrics –Bradley, music –Muinzer & Clenaghan
4 	Mona Jaouen            	Pell war an Hent         	Far along the road          	      	music – le Vallegant, arrangement – Beauvir & le Vallegant
5 	Na Fíréin              	Deireadh na Seachtaine   	The weekend                 	      	lyrics – Mac Séalaigh, music – Smith & Mac Séalaigh
6 	Ragamuffin             	Gowlwryans               	Bureaucracy                 	      	lyrics – Humphreys & Lyon, music - Ragamuffin
7 	Dazont                 	Lazhadeg ar Yezh         	Massacre of the language    	      	lyrics & music - Dazont
8 	Ny Slommaghyn          	O Vanninee               	O Manx people               	      	lyrics & music – Carswell, arrangement – Ny Slommaghyn
9 	E.V.                   	Ar Gwener (e Gwer)       	Friday (in green)           	      	lyrics and music – J & H Perche
10	An Gof                 	Ma Kan y’nn Mein         	There’s a song in the stones	      	lyrics – Hicks & Saunders, music - Hicks
11	Pentothal              	Plac’h ar Gwele Kloz     	Girl of the locked bed      	      	lyrics & music - Tangi
12	Blasket Sound          	Raithneach, a Bhean Bheag	Ferns, little woman         	      	traditional
13	Gael Force             	Suas leis a’Ghaidhlig    	Up with Gaelic              	      	lyrics and music - Martin
14	Yr Anhrefn             	Cornel                   	Corner                      	      	lyrics & music – Sebon, Mwyn, Huws & Gwyn
thread_title:  Track listing 

message: #  Glawogydd was produced by Gorwel Owen, the husband of Fiona Owen, the lead singer. He has produced LPs for the Super Furry Animals and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci.
#  Brian Webb was a leading figure in the Cornish language movement who unfortunately died in December 1986
#  This song was written by Colin Muinzer and James Clenaghan, previously members of the Irish rock group, Cruella de Ville.
#  Mona Jaouen was a founder member of the seminal Breton group Storlok.
#  Na Fíréin’s most famous song is an Irish version of the Welsh language title song from the rock opera ‘Nia Ben Aur’.
#  Ragamuffin won the Pan Celtic Song Contest with their song ‘An Wrannen’ (The wren) in 1984.
#  Dazont were formed by members of the Breton diaspora in Paris.
#  Ny Slommaghyn were the first rock group to sing in Manx. The lead singer, Greg Joughin, later went on to form a folk band, the Mollag Band. 
#  Two members of E.V.. the brothers Jari and Harri Perche, were from Finland, and the group sang in Breton, French and Finnish.
#  Davyth Hicks was a member of Lavolta Latoka, a British post-punk band, and later of Revenge with New Order bassist, Peter Hook.
#  Bernez Tangi, the lead singer, was also a founder member of Storlok.
#  Blasket Sound’s fiddle player, Maire Breatnachh, would later arrange and perform a Celtic version of the music to Final Fantasy IV.
#  Noel Eadie, the bassist, was a member of the first ever Scottish Gaelic pop group, Na h-Oganaich, who won the Pan Celtic Song Contest in 1972. 
#  Yr Anhrefn’s lead singer, Rhys Mwyn, was the manager of Catatonia during the 1990s. Yr Anhrefn were championed by John Peel, and recorded three sessions for his programme.
thread_title: Links with other bands / notes 

message: Brwynog (sgwrs) 10:57, 9 Mehefin 2022 (UTC) Brwynog (sgwrs) 10:57, 9 Mehefin 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: References