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Mari Lwyd / Morfa​’​r Frenhines (Grey Mare / Queen's Marsh)

from The Black Hours by Dead Space Chamber Music

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    Richly illustrated around a series of 'miniatures' - highly symbolic diorama-style band portraits, potent with secret messages and hidden meanings. The sequence of three images firstly show a pre-pandemic DSCM, moving to lockdown, and emerging into the strange and unsettling world we currently find ourselves in.

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    Richly illustrated around a series of 'miniatures' - highly symbolic diorama-style band portraits, potent with secret messages and hidden meanings. The sequence of three images firstly show a pre-pandemic DSCM, moving to lockdown, and emerging into the strange and unsettling world we currently find ourselves in.

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about

This piece combines two traditional melodies:
1, Mari Lwyd - a Welsh wassailing tradition (also found in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire and in Wiltshire for May Day), sung door to door around Christmas and New Year. 

The singers, accompanied by the Mari Lwyd
('grey mare') - a hooded horses skull decorated with bells and ribbons -
competitively 'barter' through the medium of song in order to be
invited in and given warmth and provisions. Although mysterious in origin,
the tradition celebrating the yearly resurrection of the Mari Lwyd, has been revived as an opportunity to reflect on death and rebirth, the cycles of the seasons, and to
welcome the ancient into the home and community.

and

2, Morfa’r Frenhines - 'Queens Marsh', a traditional Welsh melody in waltz time, commonly played on the harp.

lyrics

Wel dyma ni'n dwad
Gyfeillion diniwad
I ofyn am gennod i ganu

Os na chawn ni gennad
Rhowch wybod ar ganiad
Pa fodd mae'r 'madawiad, nos heno

'Does genni ddim cinio
Nac arian iw gwario
I wneud i chwi 'roeso, nos heno


Translation

Here we come
Dear friends
To ask permission to sing

If we don't have permission
Let us know in song
How we should leave tonight

I have no dinner
Or money to spend
To give you welcome tonight

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from The Black Hours, released December 3, 2021

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“The Black Hours is deeply storied and gloriously doomy, a mix of beauty and heaviness, ancient and new.” The Quietus

“Compelling and totally genius. Fresh, ancient and relentlessly innovative, DSCM embody the transportive power of music” Louder Than War

"A beating dark heart of pure dream-drama and past rituals, easily one of the best live acts in Bristol" RwdFwd ... more

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