Here is a little compilation of photos from our wonderful time Le Trouillet Payes de Galles Festival France.

Enjoy!

Tinc y Tannau with Deb Winter in The Firemaker

Posted on 5th August 20195th August 2019 by Sianed

This Saturday August 10th and evening of stories of Fire and Light 8 pm Show Theatre Gwaun

West St SA65 9AD FISHGUARD Tickets £10.00

https://theatrgwaun.savoysystems.co.uk/TheatrGwaun.dll/

Come with us into the woods….onto the water….to the world beyond. Ancient & beautifully crafted stories from Deb Winter, Incredibly inventive music by Tinc y Tannau and an electric energy between the three women.

Ancient stories that leap into life in this lyrical telling: beautiful & surprising stories of fires inside the human heart – and outside. Stories of hot pursuit & endless patience.

Tinc y Tannau (Sianed Jones & Ailsa Mair Hughes, bass viols/voices): extraordinary, bold & unusual improvisers & song-writers, with the gift of conjuring the imagery and emotions of the stories into music.

“Wonderful evening”…. “Deb Winter is mesmerising”….

“the music evocative and captivating”

Here’s a link to what Tinc y Tannau have been up to in France this summer

https://vimeo.com/351996283

Tinc y Tannau off to France !

Posted on 1st June 20191st June 2019 by Sianed

Tinc y Tannau have been invited to a Festival ‘Origines’ édition 2019: Pays de Galles celebrating Welsh culture. We will set off by train with Story teller Christine Watkins and Cathy Piquemal whilst our CD’s will be safely stowed away in visual artist Maria Hayes’s car along with the cloth hanging of visual artist Mary Lloyd Jones. Ten days of culture in fabulous surroundings in the south of France with fellow artists, can’t wait!

Here’s the programme

http://www.letrouillet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Programmation.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1x9seFIg-JVGckkL-zrXpfJ7I2sENQ0EJ2NzvIXn9YxUPlqagzPJDNHWE

Songlines Review May 2019

Posted on 17th April 201918th April 2019 by Sianed

Very happy to see a review of GALW our first album in print. A big thank you to Nathaniel Hardy !

Tinc y Tannau GALW (57 mins)

The Welsh duo conjure up otherwordly sounds

You’ve heard of freeform jazz. What about freeform avant-garde, New Age,

Welsh folk Music ?

This debut from the duo Sianed Jones and Ailsa Mair Hughes is an elemental, esoteric ride through ancient Welsh tradition and the rich, water-filled landscape of Wales itself. Armed simply with a bass viola da gambaeach and their voices, the pair spirit up otherwordly sounds, with eight of the tracks being improvisations, many of them actively imitating natural sounds such as waterfalls and mountain streams. Jones specialises in vocal techniques having worked with musicians in remote communities around the globe, and many of the lyrics and vocal sounds are as much about rhythm as meaning.

Still there is an element of narrative. Two tracks use bardic poetry from the Book of Taliesin, a 14th–century Welsh manuscript. There is also a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca and two songs written by Christine Watkins. Yet the most primeval air of Tinc y Tannau is probably at its most visceral when the voice becomes simply another instrument – wailing, ululating and rhymically rapping like a bird upon a tree. It can feel a little too unmoored at times and won’t be to many tastes, but if you want something weird…

NATHANIEL HANDY

TRACK TO TRY Bwmba Bwmba

Digital downloads of the album are available on our bandcamp page

Tinc y Tannau with Deb Winter

Posted on 13th March 2019 by Sianed

An exciting collaboration with Deb Winter for a Spring show. So throw off your winter coats and join us for an evening of stories, song and Tinc y Tannau style improvisations