SCARED TO DANCE

Scared To Dance presents Adwaith on Tuesday 5th July at Moth Club.

Support comes from Cerys Hafana and tickets are on sale at DICE.

From Carmarthen to the furthest reaches of Eastern Europe, Adwaith’s upcoming album Bato Mato is a record about journeys, and the similarities and differences we find along the way. A life-changing trip to the bracingly cold city of Ulan-Ude in East Siberia took them racing past, “barren landscape and brutalist architecture”, the experience seeping into the record as they attempted to create something, “as big as the limitless sky around us there”.

While the band’s debut album Melyn – which won the prestigious Welsh Music Prize in 2019 – was a musical bildungsroman, dreaming of the possibilities of adulthood, Bato Mato looks in the mirror and sees stark reality biting. Matching Hollie Singer’s explorative lyrics, which yearn for a simple life and “a place to call my own”, Adwaith’s songs constantly shift and evolve, searching for a steady pulse that never sticks. Loose and jam-like in structure, the band were heavily influenced by the psychedelic sense of foreboding conjured by late-’60s krautrock bands Can and NEU!

Cerys Hafana is a musician from Machynlleth. She plays arrangements of Welsh folk tunes and songs, alongside original compositions on the triple harp and piano. Cerys is also a member of Avanc and released her debut solo album, Cwmwl, in 2020. She has also appeared on the TV show Curadur (Curator), wrote an essay on Welsh music and identity which was featured in the book Welsh (Plural), and recently recorded a live session at the BBC Maida Vale studios with Horizons Cymru.