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Genres
  
Labels
  
Aderyn Papur

Past members
  
Pete Richardson

Record label
  
Aderyn Papur

Albums
  
Y Niwl, Y Niwl 4, 4

Years active
  
2009- (hiatus)

Website
  
www.yniwl.com

Genre
  
Surf music

Members
  
Alun Tan Lan

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Associated acts
  
Alun Tan Lan, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Eitha Tal Ffranco, Topper, Jen Jeniro

Origin
  
Gwynedd, United Kingdom (2009)

Similar
  
Las Mosquitas, Ìxtahuele, Orthodox, Cate Le Bon, Ornamento y Delito

Y niwl undegpedwar official video directed by ryan owen eddleston


Y Niwl are a surf instrumental band from North Wales, formed in 2009. Its members are Alun Evans (guitar), Llyr Pari (drums), Sion Glyn (bass) and Gruff ab Arwel (organ and guitar). The band's name is pronounced Uh Nule and means 'The Fog'.

Contents

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Y niwl dauddegwyth fideo


Style and influences

Y Niwl Y Niwl on Marc Rileys 6 Music Show BBC Oxford Road Manchester 17

Alun Evans has said: "It's essentially not complicated music, it's just rock 'n' roll basically, simple and raw. I still don’t have much of a collection of surf music and I was never really into that particular style of music in the past. The only thing I really had was an old Shadows album on tape."

Recording

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Alun Evans said: "Most of our material is edited jams... We usually record ourselves jamming then take out the best bits and form a song. Other times, someone will come up with an idea and we’ll work around that."

Y Niwl (album)

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The band's debut album, Y Niwl, was released on 29 November 2010 on the Aderyn Papur label. It was recorded at Bryn Derwen studios and engineered by David Wrench. The songs' titles are numbers in Welsh, but do not reflect the order of the track listing. Evans explained: "When we started writing the songs we named them numerically in order, just to make it practical. But then when we wanted to change the track listing of the album around, we couldn’t rename the songs so we stuck with the songs and their numerical titles."

Y Niwl was named The Sunday Times Album of the Week on 2 January 2011 and received 7/10 in reviews by the NME and Drowned in Sound. The track Undegpedwar was used as the theme tune to the BBC television show Football Focus.

Songs

UndegpedwarY Niwl · 2010
DauddegunY Niwl 4 · 2012
PedwarY Niwl · 2010

References

Y Niwl Wikipedia


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