{"id":17443,"date":"2016-11-18T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=17443"},"modified":"2016-11-18T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:00:07","slug":"welsh-folk-band-the-gentle-good-launches-latest-album-in-canton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/welsh-folk-band-the-gentle-good-launches-latest-album-in-canton","title":{"rendered":"The Gentle Good, Cardiff-based Welsh folk band launches latest album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_17503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17503\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17503 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Gentle_good_band-625x349.jpg\" alt=\"gentle_good_band\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17503 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Gentle_good_band-625x349.jpg\" alt=\"gentle_good_band\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><\/noscript> The Gentle Good musicians set up on stage before the performance.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOn Armistice Day, Cardiff-based Welsh folk band, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ghbonello\">The Gentle Good<\/a>, launched their latest album, <em>Ruins\/Adfeilion<\/em>,\u00a0in a church in Canton with standing room only in the audience. The album speaks, bilingually, to a moral conviction in the face of the uncertain times we are in.<br \/>\nBonello commanded the stage accompanied by a full orchestra: Welsh harp, string quartet, stand-up bass, horns, and vocal harmonies. He performed on guitar, harmonium, and piano. The high ceilings and pillar-lined aisles created a sound environment that accentuated the warmth &amp; soulfulness of the music, holding onto each note of the music comprised of Welsh and English lyrics.<br \/>\n\u201cThis album in particular has more social commentary in it [than others].\u201d There\u2019s an old model of protesting people still [are asking] where are the protest songs?\u201d Bonello said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to do that kind of thing and sound new and interesting. I feel I can express my frustration at certain social situations or political situations in my own way and so that\u2019s what I did with this album.\u201d<br \/>\nIn Pen Draw\u2019r Byd (The Far Side of the World), Gareth toyed with a contemporary take on a traditional Welsh folk theme in which the \u201cpoor, lonely folk maidens waiting for their sailors\u201d wander the shores waiting indefinitely for their sailor boys. In this version, she doesn\u2019t wait but affirms, In Bonello\u2019s words, \u201cI\u2019ll leave the sea to the seagulls, thank you very much.\u201d<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17500\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17500 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Gareth_Harmonium_closeup-625x349.jpg\" alt=\"gareth_harmonium_closeup\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17500 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Gareth_Harmonium_closeup-625x349.jpg\" alt=\"gareth_harmonium_closeup\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><\/noscript> Jennifer Gallichan and Gareth Bonello of The Gentle Good. Bonello performs &#8220;Gwen Lliw&#8217;r Lili&#8221; on the harmonium.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe alchemical combination of musicality and personal chemistry on stage, and incidentally in the audience who appeared to be familiar with Bonello\u00a0on a personal level, stirred a spell-binding listening experience. The audience was quietly captivated throughout each song.<br \/>\n\u201cWe needed this,\u201d Louise, a concert-goer, said. \u201cIt\u2019s good for the soul. We needed some medicine after this week.\u201d<br \/>\nToward the end of the set, the band played The Fisherman and a man in the front row, who had worked with Bonello on a music video for the song, began singing along.<br \/>\nDavid Morgan, the church warden was pleased with the number of Welsh-speakers in the crowd. \u201cMy god! It\u2019s the language of my culture and my country. It\u2019s so important. It means so much to me.\u201d<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17502\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17502 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Gentle_Good_Audience-625x349.jpg\" alt=\"gentle_good_audience\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17502 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Gentle_Good_Audience-625x349.jpg\" alt=\"gentle_good_audience\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><\/noscript> The Gentle Good performing at St John&#8217;s Church in Canton, Cardiff.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe instrumentation is as much a part of Bonello\u2019s storytelling as the words are themselves. In Bound for Lampesuda, Bonello opens with guitar and vocals, \u201cPray to Mary for safe passage now that we\u2019re so far from home.\u201d<br \/>\nThe strings come in, reminiscent to the swell of the sea as the song builds. In an instrumental break, the horns call out, as though they are the boats atop the waves mournfully seeking refuge. The lyrics go on to critique the lack of action by European and UK leaders. \u201cThey\u2019d leave us for the waves to swallow,\u201d he sings, transporting a willing audience with a compelling narrative driven by a universal heartbreak.<br \/>\n\u201cBound for Lampedusa was about migrants, refugees, fleeing Libya in a poorly made boat and trying to reach somewhere to claim asylum. That\u2019s a horrible situation. Thousands of people have drowned over the past few years and mainly it\u2019s because of the inaction of the European Union for political reasons,\u201d Bonello said.<br \/>\nAesthetically, while the music speaks to injustice, it speaks on a level with the listener\u00a0that invites comfort, synthesizing an unlikely harmony between a person&#8217;s goodness of heart and a world of corruption &amp; blind cruelty. The sound is serene and the vocals are as sensitive and gentle as the name would suggest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff&#8217;s Gareth Bonello celebrates the release of his latest album, Ruins\/Adfeilion, with a full orchestra to a captive audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":17501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Gentle Good, Cardiff-based Welsh folk band launches latest album - InterCardiff<\/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\/intercardiff\/global-city\/welsh-folk-band-the-gentle-good-launches-latest-album-in-canton\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Gentle Good, Cardiff-based Welsh folk band launches latest album - InterCardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cardiff&#039;s Gareth Bonello celebrates the release of his latest album, Ruins\/Adfeilion, with a full orchestra to a captive audience.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/welsh-folk-band-the-gentle-good-launches-latest-album-in-canton\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"InterCardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-18T16:00:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Gareth_Jen_Harmonies.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"950\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"530\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Noelle E. 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