Free delivery on many items.   Same-day despatch, no-question returns.   Authorised dealers - full technical support.   Online since 1997. Shop categories Information Carwyn ELLIS & RIO 18/THE BBC NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES Yn Rio (LP) Legere Recordings Germany

Cat: LEGO 238VL. Rel: 28 Feb 22
Funk/Rare Groove

Side 1 - Track 1. Botafogo BlueSide 1 - Track 2. Ola!Side 1 - Track 3. Y Bywyd LlonyddSide 1 - Track 4. AcaiSide 1 - Track 5. Cariad CariadSide 2 - Track 1. Tristwch 20Side 2 - Track 2. Ynys AurSide 2 - Track 3. Y Ferch Ar Y Cei (with Nina Miranda)Side 2 - Track 4. ArpoadorSide 2 - Track 5. Ble Aeth Yr Amser?

During the various pandemic lockdowns of 2020, BBC Radio Wales suggested to multi-instrumentalist Carwyn Ellis that he joined forces with their National Orchestra of Wales and Brazilian band Rio 18 for a one-off, audience-free concert. In the end, Rio 18 were not permitted to travel, so instead their contributions were recorded remotely and assembled by Ellis and his producer Shawn Lee, to which the orchestrated parts were then added live. Despite this complex recording process, the results are stunning: sublime songs, sung in Welsh, with an attractive mixture of Brazilian rhythms and instrumentation, soaring orchestration and attractive melodies aplenty. It has a conceptual theme - it's meant to be a sort of musical day in Rio - but that doesn't really matter; what matters is the music, and it's uniformly spellbinding.