By Stef Gijssels " Isolate " is an amazing album, reflecting the isolation of the Covid pandemic. "One more!" I hear you...
Molten Metal Flow
Sunday, 3 January 2021
Hwyl Nofio - Isolate (Hwyl, 2020) ****½ Review: The Free Jazz Collective
Review: Hwyl Nofio - Isolate
Friday, 17 April 2020
Hwyl Nofio - Isolate
Hwyl Nofio - Isolate is very much a creative response to the virus Covid-19 which has gripped much of the World for many months now. As scientists seek answers the World is effectively in a state of lockdown with populations told to stay at home, stay safe and isolate to reduce the impact of the virus. It's a crazy situation we find ourselves in but it is also an opportunity to create and share and bring comfort to other people.
I cannot thank enough the people who have helped make Hwyl Nofio - Isolate happen in a such a short period of time. I'm extremely proud to have some old friends contribute to this project. Many of you will recall Mark Beazley for his wonderful contribution to the Hwyl Nofio albums Hymnal and Dark. I also had the pleasure of contributing to Mark's album project Rothko - Blood Demands More Blood. I also feel excited to be working again with Steve Sherlock a musician I have known for 40 yrs since being together in the Post Punk band Neu Electrikk. Last but not least I am delighted to have on board the incredible Rhodri Davies, a musician I have known and admired for many years.
Finally I would like to dedicate this album to my daughter Victoria. Vicky understands isolation having suffered for many years the debilitating disease Crohns. The pain and isolation of chronic disease, yet possess the ability to put aside pain and anxiety to embrace life for what it is. A more positive and inspirational person I do not know.
Hwyl Nofio were:-
Steve Parry with
Mark Beazley
Rhodri Davies
Steve Sherlock
Download available from:- https://hwylnofio.bandcamp.com/
Please support Crohns & Colitis by making a donation to:- https://www.crohnsandcolitis.org.uk/
Kind thanks for your support - Stay safe
Steve Parry (April 2020)
Monday, 13 April 2020
Saturday, 8 June 2019
The Beholders Share - Installation soundtrack
In 2016 One&Other Creative recruited avant-garde musician Hwyl
Nofio to create an immersive sound installation piece for Art Market,
York - an arts event (30 Sept – 2 Oct, 2016).
The Beholders Share
- Perceive then as your own
When an artist
produces a powerful work, perception is inherently ambiguous, the
ambiguity in the piece elicits both a conscious and unconscious
process of recognition in the observer, who responds emotionally and
emphatically to the work in terms of his/ her own life experience,
therefore the artist creates the work based on their own personal
sensory information and the beholder re-creates it by responding to
its inherent ambiguity and makes it personal to them.
All art is an
inherently pleasurable and instructive attempt by the artist and
beholder to communicate and share with each other the creative
process that characterises every human brain – a process that leads
to a sudden recognition that we have seen into another person’s
mind that allows us to see the truth underlying both the beauty and
the violence depicted in the work. Sound is a language all of its own
and can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. A creative work
is only completed when the beholder embraces the work. Perceive then
as your own…….
Steve Parry/Hwyl
Nofio
The Beholders Share
installation played continuously on a looping system in a small
darkened room containing only 12 chairs.Throughout each day of the
event an orderly queue formed, waiting patiently to enter the space .
I would like to thank One&Other Creative for the opportunity to
create the installation and everyone who came along to the event or
purchases the soundtrack download. Many thanks for your support. It
is hoped the installation will resurface for future art/music events
- stay tuned!
The Beholders Share
film can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/334865786
Steve Parry - instruments, sounds.
Derek Yau - cello.
Released: 14/06/2019
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow
Hwyl Nofio - From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow
(Available via Bandcamp Download + Signed Ltd Edition (100) 26 page Art Book/CDr Edition)
From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow is at once a deeply personal tribute to a long lost family member and an elegy for the death of the steel industry in the place of his birth. Steve Parry (born 1958) is a product of Panteg, his formative years were spent living in the shadow of The Black Mountains, amid the scars and ruins of a heavily industrial landscape.
“I recall my boyhood visits to the steel works – an atmosphere of intense heat and noxious fumes, bright white light, and deafening noise. Over the years I have continued to go back to the composition, adding new additional details – As a piece of music ‘Elevated Gangways’ has been an organic, cathartic process”
“From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow” - the concept of the piece had been around for what appears an eternity. Originally the composition was inspired by recordings taken from an unreleased solo project / album “Symphony for the Death of Industry” recorded in the early 1980’s. I had written the music as a kind of soundtrack about the life of my grandfather Herbert Parry – who worked as a steel roller at Panteg Steelworks in Pontypool, South Wales and died of gangrene poisoning when I was three years old. During my childhood my grandfather remained somewhat of an enigma – my memories are of a tall, silent, proud man beaten by the rigours of personal and working life.” Steve Parry.
Parry later returned to the idea with a 12-minute composition called ‘Elevated Gangways’ that didn’t fit onto the Hwyl Nofio album ‘Hymnal’ released in 2002 – sporadically returning to the composition over the following years to the final version realised in 2008. The definitive version of “ From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow’ begins furtively, ushered in by a clattering mix of cymbal smashes and sawn at strings, a pile of deadened instruments finally awoken, laying the groundwork for one last lamentation. Then it arrives – that great lion roar of guitar noise fills the space, the immutable core of the piece raging away. It is what the great Japanese saxophonist Kaoru Abe once called “the sound of sound”; adrift from all semblance of tempo, and ablaze with unfettered possibility. The church organ moan is summoned from the deepest recesses of the now desolate landscape of Pontypool – deindustrialized, de-populated, demoralized – remnants of memory playing tricks within the minds of everyone from the newly born to the working poor and the living dead. Its bleak melody creaks and cracks in pitiable see-saw motion, adrift in time and nameless place, haunting those who once harnessed its great power, who then had to watch it being dismembered, torn apart, suffering in silence as the site was destroyed - cleared not for something else, or anything better. Merely to be rid of it for good. As the piece enters its final sequence the gilded drone riff returns for one last roar, howling out a colossal yell of defiance before finally fading into a cold organ wail, then falling into nothing. “From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow” is at last complete.
Hwyl Nofio were:-
Recorded at: The Wern / Church / Field recording
The recording process took place over the period 1980 – 2008
From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow (Part one) 20.21
From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow (Part two) 20.27
Ordering Information:-
From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow – Available as a high quality download via Hwyl Nofio - Bandcamp
Link:https://hwylnofio.bandcamp.com/album/from-elevated-gangways-rivers-of-molten-metal-flow
To order a copy / enquire about the latest stock situation for the Limited edition (100) 26 page Hardback Art Book/CDr edition – Signed by Steve Parry - Contact the artist direct by emailing: hwylnofio@yahoo.co.uk
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