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Yn Canu

by Ratatosk

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1.
Diolch byth am popeth Mae’r byd dal yn troi Dal ymlaen yw uchelgais y dydd Os mae angen ateb Ac i teimlo’r gwir Bydd angen gweiddi Gweiddi neu gweddi Rwy’n cofio cysgu Amser maeth yn ôl Yn yr anialwch Cynhyrchwyr ffydd Wyt ti’n teimlo’r ysbryd? Ac adnabod ofn? Croeso i fy mywyd Mae’n bywyd llon! Does ‘na dim atebion Neu unrhyw gwir Ond mae yna gobaith Bydd wastad gobaith Er gorau, er gwaeth (Lleuad coch yn codi Lleuad gwyn yn disgyn)
2.
Crisis is just another word for disaster Silence is golden if you can’t afford the laughter All these dreams are lost like tears down a drain. Painfully apart Be still my beaten heart There must be a German word for how I have been drinking Harmful and destructive and I can’t stand all the thinking All thoughts and deeds are mysteries to me. Painfully apart Be still my beaten heart There is not the quality, but that’s just vanity. Keep it in the front of your mind: there are future days.
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Impossible 06:18
I’m an island, a law unto myself Insular shelf I was formed in fire far back in time Now I’m decline Slowly sinking and eroding away Crumbling in the bay Archipelago, tell me where to go I need something more to dream of Be the right way, say the things to say, Is it so impossible to love? There’s an ocean that divides me from all I am in it’s thrall. Oh to be surrounded by nothing but sea What a way to be! Islands can dream. I long for a chain, that will take my name I cannot survive here on my own. Look the right way, say the things to say, Is it so impossible to love? Archipelago, tell me where to go I would like some guidance from above Be the right way, say the things to say, Is it so impossible to love?
4.
Y Cudd 05:29
Amser nawr i ddweud pethau Dim atal, dim osgoi Angen meddwl rhywbeth llawn hyder Rhywbeth bach i ddechrau Swn boeth newydd o radio ymenydd Creu diflastod mewn pob agwedd Dim arwr Neu dagrau Neu niwed Neu mudiad I achub y byd Neu jyst achub fi. Neu jyst achub fi. Nes i ddweud y peth anghywir Mewn sawl ffyrdd gwahanol Trio edrych fwy arferol Rhwystro fy hun rhag wneud bron unrhywbeth Bydd yna dydd I dangos pawb y cudd
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I keep thinking of a time When days were in demand Now enough of them have passed It feels they’ll never end. They keep coming regardless Challenging us to make use of them all Blurry minds have lied about the lies and what is real And we’re stuck in the age of the wheel. Age is nothing but a number that numbs you To all forgotten days Time has been an enemy as long as I remember Days into weeks into months into fears into All that makes up a lifetime Doesn’t amount to as much as you need Time will keep on kicking us in any way it can In several different ways we aren’t equipped to understand. There is a discrepancy between the days I’ve lived And the days I fully remember. I could only let you down while thinking of the past While days keep giving us those countless moments that don’t last Any hope that they might become useful Vanished into the impermanence. Days that make us promises are setting us up For a fall.
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The wood is full of misty remnants By the shore of the lake There was industry, there was family There was everything you’d need to be at peace This was a long time ago. I could have been a pretender You could have done much more In a different world where we would be heard Above all the senseless noise that fills the space This is the wrong way home. I didn’t want to be persuaded It should have been right Was I wrong to say that I feel ok When it hasn’t been the case for several years. This is the wrong way home.
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Sometimes it is hard to have ideas Nothing comes for hours at a time I’m a desert that wants to produce Put something here that rhymes with produce I don’t really have that much to say And it’s said in no particular way Insert the third line right here Put something that rhymes with the third line Sometimes it is hard to have ideas Nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing I’m a desert… is an overwrought metaphor Something something something something semaphore Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Consectetur adipiscing elit Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt Ut labore et dolore magna aliqua

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Ratatosk is a downbeat folk project of Rhodri Viney, a 20+ year veteran of the Welsh music scene, who is also half of Welsh Music Prize nominated Right Hand Left Hand.

Yn Canu is the 11th Ratatosk release, and deals with the usual themes of detachment, the relentless passing of time and cessation of all things - sometimes in a funny way. Musically, it’s an attempt to do something more stripped down than the previous album (to mixed success) and to release an album that was under 40 minutes (a total success!)



Mae Ratatosk yn prosiect gwerin drist Rhodri Viney sydd wedi chwarae yn y sîn cerddoriaeth Cymraeg am dros 20 flwyddyn, ac yn hanner y band Right Hand Left Hand, a oedd wedi'i nomineiddio i'r Gwobr Gerddoriaeth Gymreig yn 2016 a 2020.

Mae'r albwm hwn yn delio â themâu arferol Ratatosk, sef datodiad, amser yn pasio yn gyflym ac y diwedd o bob peth - weithiau mewn ffordd ddoniol. Yn gerddorol, mae'n ymgais i wneud rhywbeth mwy sbâr na'r albwm blaenorol ac i ryddhau albwm sy’n llai na 40 munud (roedd yr agwedd hon yn llwyddiant llwyr).

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released July 16, 2021

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Ratatosk Aberdare, UK

Sad songs sung sadly.

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