Gwenno - UtopiaHaving released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, 'Utopia' is Gwenno Saunders first album recorded predominantly in English, and presents a very different side to her life and songwriting. Forty three years into her life, Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East

Three deep and spaced out drone pieces from Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (whose solo cd 'Aquarello' was recently reissued by All Saints)

Endless Scroll

vocals) and Bruno Frenzel (guitar) were joined by keyboard maestro Zeus B

firmer rhythms coalesce

Beautiful South

“The haunting ambience of Beat fit somewhat with the then-popular Massive Attack and Portishead

such as Keren Ann

early days after his life-changing discovery of the Moog synthesizer

Recorded in April 1967 by producer Giorgio Gomelsky at DeLane Lea Studios in London

with percussion breaks that sound pretty much like what would later become known as techno

It was also listed on the Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

Joe Hisaishi and Aphex Twin