debut Rheinallt recordings

ANKSTMUSIK ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE CD REISSUE OF THE DEBUT ALBUM BY RHEINALLT H.ROWLANDS . ' HEN DAID BRAN' FIRST APPEARED IN 1993 ON THE CENTRAL SLATE LABEL ON CASSETTE ONLY .THE BAND MEMBERS ARE OWAIN WRIGHT(KNOWN AS OZ) AND DEWI EVANS (ORCHESTRAL ARRANGER) .NOBODY HAD HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE (OR SINCE).

REVIEW/ADOLYGIAD

ADOPTING THE RHEINALLT H.ROWLANDS MONIKER , THESE GORKY'S COHORTS DO HUGE ORCHESTRAS AND BOOMING WELSH LANGUAGE VOCAL WITH APLOMB . BURSTING WITH OPERATIC DRAMA , IT'S FANTASTICALLY MAD ,AND IN PLACES , QUITE WONDERFUL

MELODY MAKER

BATTLE HYMNS , STORM EFFECTS,CAFE LOVE SONGS AND LAMENTS FOR THE LOSS OF ROY ORBISON ARE ALL SLATES TO THE ROOF OF RHEINALLT H.ROWLANDS. IF LAIBACH HAD GONE TO UNIVERSITY IN BANGOR THEY WOULD STILL HAVE STRUGGLED TO MATCH THE FEARSOME DRAMA OF HEN DAID BRAN . IF YOU'VE EVER WONDERED WHAT A WELSH LANGUAGE BROADWAY VERSION OF MERVYN PEAKE'S GORMENGHAST TRILOGY MIGHT SOUND LIKE - THIS ENIGMATIC CELTIC DUO KNOW ALREADY .

DE-LUXE MAGAZINE

IT IS A MAGNIFICENTLY ATMOSPHERIC RECORD THAT SOUNDS FRIGHTENINGLY CONTEMPORARY . BUT THEN HOW COULD ANY ALBUM WHICH BOLDLY ANNEXES THE MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN RICHARD WAGNER , PHIL SPECTOR AND THE GREAT LOST EAST EUROPEAN ICE DANCE SOUNDTRACKS OF THE 70'S POSSIBLE SOUND OTHERWISE

MOJO