{"id":17663,"date":"2013-10-22T21:06:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T21:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=17663"},"modified":"2013-10-22T21:06:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T21:06:04","slug":"raider-of-the-lost-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/10\/22\/raider-of-the-lost-harp\/","title":{"rendered":"Raider of the Lost Harp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Conformist Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.conformistmusic.co.uk\/\">Conformist<\/a> is an experimental musician who digs up sounds of 300-year-old Welsh instruments from the musical compost heap.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/Conformist_Big_WM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Conformist_Big_WM\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/Conformist_Big_WM.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"312\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Conformist_Big_WM\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/Conformist_Big_WM.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also known as Mike Simmons, Conformist is using ancient Welsh instruments to fuel his forthcoming, currently nameless, second album. It will include a Welsh triple harp, a Welsh flute and a pibgorn \u2013 a 300-year-old woodwind instrument made from bullhorn.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t stop here. \u201cIf my ambitions aren\u2019t too excessive I would love to feature a full Welsh Male voice choir\u201d, says Conformist.<\/p>\n<p>Conformist\u2019s music feeds from a seam of harmony located between convention and chaos. Using archaic cut and paste techniques, his 2012 debut album, Paid to Fake It, created a mackerel skin of frequencies by compressing sound from television, throaty pornos, tambourines and whistles.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mIm5A6zjZTA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conformist is an experimental musician who digs up sounds of 300-year-old Welsh instruments from the musical compost heap. \u00a0 Also known as Mike Simmons, Conformist is using ancient Welsh instruments to fuel his forthcoming, currently nameless, second album. It will include a Welsh triple harp, a Welsh flute and a pibgorn \u2013 a 300-year-old woodwind instrument made from bullhorn. It doesn\u2019t stop here. \u201cIf my ambitions aren\u2019t too excessive I would love to feature a full Welsh Male voice choir\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Raider of the Lost Harp - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/10\/22\/raider-of-the-lost-harp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raider of the Lost Harp - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Conformist is an experimental musician who digs up sounds of 300-year-old Welsh instruments from the musical compost heap. \u00a0 Also known as Mike Simmons, Conformist is using ancient Welsh instruments to fuel his forthcoming, currently nameless, second album. 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