LLYN Y CWN - DU Y MOROEDD DIGICD

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Style: Dark Ambient. In 6-panel Digipak

"Du Y Moroedd" (Welsh - the black of the sea) is an album of abyssal dark ambient – environ- mental soundscapes and atmospheres from above, below and beside the ocean; field recor- dings made onboard vessels at sea; sounds from submerged recording devices deep under- water; recordings from the coasts of North Wales to Greenland and the Arctic Ocean. "The tracks were created onboard the RV Prince Madog whilst conducting research using multibeam sonar to locate, survey and identify shipwrecks from WW1. The multibeam sonar creates images of the seabed using acoustic reflections. It is quite an experience to watch the sonar reveal an unsurveyed wreck and be the first person to "see" the ship for over 100 years; the vessel sitting at the bottom of the ocean waiting in the dark to be discovered. The album features recordings from the hull of RRS James Clark Ross whilst ploughing through ice fields off Greenland, from a "sound trap" attached to an anchor as it descended through 80m of water to the seabed, and sounds from onboard the RV Prince Madog with its pitched engine drone. There is also a recording of the bell at Trwyn Du lighthouse, Anglesey, that was made in August 2020, days before the bell was removed to be replaced with a modern fog horn - prior to this, the bell had rung every 30 seconds since 1922" (Benjamin Ian Powell). File next to fellow Welshman Lustmord and Sleep Research Facility. "Ambient soundscapes that thrill and terrify in equal measure" (Electronic Sound Magazine).

TRACKS: 01 Trwyn Du 02 SS Apapa 03 Adrift 04 Submergence 05 Du Y Moroedd 06 The Hunt 07 Descent 08 The Skerries 09 Erebus and Terror 10 Stratigraphy