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{{Short description|Welsh experimental music group}}
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| genre = [[Experimental music|Experimental]], [[Industrial music|industrial]], [[Avant-garde music|avant-garde]], [[drone music|drone]]
| origin = United Kingdom
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| label = HWYL<br>Fourier Transform
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| genre = [[Experimental music|Experimental]], [[Industrial music|industrial]], [[Avant-garde music|avant-garde]], [[drone music|drone]]
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| years_active = 1997–present
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| label = HWYL<br>Fourier Transform
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| current_members = [[Steve Parry (musician)|Steve Parry]]
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| years_active = 1997–present
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| past_members = Trevor Stainsby<br>Sandor Szabo<br>Fredrik Soegaard<br>Balazs Major<br>[[Gorwel Owen]],<br>Mark Beazley
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| current_members = [[Steve Parry (musician)|Steve Parry]]
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| past_members = Trevor Stainsby<br>Sandor Szabo<br>Fredrik Soegaard<br>Balazs Major<br>[[Gorwel Owen]],<br>Mark Beazley
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'''Hwyl Nofio''' (from [[Welsh language|Welsh]] meaning ‘emotional swimmers’) is an [[experimental music]] group whose only permanent member is [[Steve Parry (musician)|Steve Parry]].<ref name="Hwyl Nofio">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio|publisher=BBC.co.uk|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/5ae2fdbd-d252-4f12-9734-aea2bf816f80|accessdate=2011-09-25}}</ref> Steve Parry was born 4 September 1958 in [[Pontypool]], [[South Wales Valleys]], [[UK]]
'''Hwyl Nofio''' (from [[Welsh language|Welsh]] meaning 'swimming fun') is a Welsh [[experimental music]] group formed by [[Steve Parry (musician)|Steve Parry]].<ref name="Hwyl Nofio">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio|publisher=BBC|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/5ae2fdbd-d252-4f12-9734-aea2bf816f80|accessdate=25 September 2011}}</ref>


==Band history==
==History==


Formed in 1997, Hwyl Nofios’ approach touches on various diverse styles and genres,<ref name="Music">{{cite web|title=Musique Machine
Formed in 1997, Hwyl Nofios' approach touches on various diverse styles and genres,<ref name="Music">{{cite web|title=Musique Machine
|publisher=Musiquemachine|url=http://www.musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=81|accessdate=2013-03-29}}</ref> including, [[industrial music]], [[drone music|drone]], [[Ambient music|ambient]] and [[noise music|noise]]. Hwyl Nofio is an evolving ensemble based around its originator Steve Parry, who previously had been a founding member of the [[Surrealist music]] group [[Neu Electrikk]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Panciera |first=Mario |title=45 Revolutions, The Bible of Punk/Mod/Powerpop/New Wave/NWOBHM/Indie Singles(1976/79).Volume 1 UK/Ireland|year=1976/79 |publisher=Hurdy Gurdy Books |location=Italy |page=446| isbn= 978-88-95592-00-8}}</ref> and also worked with [[Matt Johnson (singer)|Matt Johnson]] of [[The The]] and Colin Potter of [[Nurse With Wound]].<ref name="Mixing It/BBC Radio 3">{{cite web|title=Mixing It/BBC Radio 3|publisher=BBC.co..uk|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/mixingit/pip/iii7l/|accessdate=2011-09-27}}</ref> Hwyl Nofio referred to the approach as a marriage of dilemmas being resolved in another space whereby the music explores and exploits an ongoing collision between harmony and disharmony.
|publisher=Musiquemachine|url=http://www.musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=81|accessdate=29 March 2013}}</ref> including, [[industrial music]], [[drone music|drone]], [[Ambient music|ambient]] and [[noise music|noise]]. Hwyl Nofio is an evolving ensemble based around its originator Steve Parry, who previously had been a founding member of the [[Surrealist music]] group [[Neu Electrikk]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Panciera |first=Mario |title=45 Revolutions, The Bible of Punk/Mod/Powerpop/New Wave/NWOBHM/Indie Singles(1976/79).Volume 1 UK/Ireland|year=2008 |publisher=Hurdy Gurdy Books |location=Italy |page=446| isbn= 978-88-95592-00-8}}</ref> and also worked with [[Matt Johnson (singer)|Matt Johnson]] of [[The The]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Fraser|first=Neil|title=Long Shadows and High Hopes, The Life and Times of Matt Johnson & The The.UK/Ireland|year=2018 |publisher=Omnibus Press|location=United Kingdom |page=120| isbn= 978-1-78558-230-1}}</ref> and Colin Potter of [[Nurse with Wound]].<ref name="Mixing It/BBC Radio 3">{{cite web|title=Mixing It/BBC Radio 3|publisher=BBC.co..uk|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/mixingit/pip/iii7l/|accessdate=27 September 2011}}</ref> Hwyl Nofio referred to the approach as a marriage of dilemmas being resolved in another space whereby the music explores and exploits an ongoing collision between harmony and disharmony.
Hwyl Nofios’ influences include [[The Velvet Underground]], [[Neu]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[John Cage]] and [[Harry Partch]],
Hwyl Nofios' influences include [[The Velvet Underground]], [[Neu]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[John Cage]] and [[Harry Partch]],
The band has over the years has consisted of Steve Parry [[avant-garde]] [[guitarist]] and [[multi-instrumentalist]] with Trevor Stainsby (producer/engineer/guitar/keyboards), Sandor Szabo (guitars/processing), Fredrik Soegaard (fractal guitarist), Balazs Major (percussion), Mark Beazley (bass/effects) of instrumental ambient group [[Rothko (band)]], and [[Gorwel Owen]] (banjo /processing).<ref name="Wire Tapper">{{cite web|title=Wire Tapper|publisher=Wire|url=http://thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wire-tapper/the-wire-tapper_15|accessdate=2013-12-23}}</ref>
The band has over the years has consisted of Steve Parry [[avant-garde]] guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with Trevor Stainsby, Sandor Szabo, Fredrik Soegaard, Balazs Major, and Mark Beazley of the instrumental ambient group [[Rothko (band)|Rothko]], and [[Gorwel Owen]].<ref name="Wire Tapper">{{cite web|title=Wire Tapper|publisher=Wire|url=http://thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wire-tapper/the-wire-tapper_15|accessdate=23 December 2013}}</ref> In 2012, Hwyl Nofio released "DARK".<ref name="The Quietus">{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/12517-hwyl-nofio-interview-dark|title=Hwyl Nofio – The Lay of the Land|publisher=The Quietus|accessdate=23 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="One&Other">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio – The Licence of Dark Spaces|publisher=One&Other|page=16,17|url=http://issuu.com/oneandother/docs/festiveissue?mode=window|accessdate=24 March 2013}}</ref> In 2020, as Hwyl Nofio Parry also collaborated with artists such as [[Rhodri Davies (musician)|Rhodri Davies]] and [[Steve James Sherlock]] on "Isolate".<ref name="Isolate">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio - Isolate|url=https://noisenotmusic.com/2020/04/24/|accessdate=23 September 2020}}</ref>
2012 - Hwyl Nofio released “DARK”,<ref name="The Quietus">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio - The Lay Of The Land|publisher=The Quietus|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/12517-hwyl-nofio-interview-dark|accessdate=2013-06-23}}</ref> a project that evoked a landscape wrought from personal experience, magnifying visual and aural dialogues to transcend the specifics of its origin. The project provided tangible evidence of this landscape in an accompanying book that inculcate the listener into a world of chilling folk myths and the resonances of family histories, as well as timely references to the legacies of surrealist filmmaker and poet [[Jane Arden (director)]] and the novelist [[Bruce Chatwin]].<ref name="One&Other">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio - The Licence of Dark Spaces|publisher=One&Other|page=16,17|url=http://issuu.com/oneandother/docs/festiveissue?mode=window|accessdate=2013-03-24}}</ref>


==Installations and performance art==
==Installations and performance art==
Parry has had an interest in ambiguity and perception. In 2016 he was commissioned to create a sound/visual installation – “The Beholder's Share”. The installation was a play on perception where the ambiguity in the piece elicits both a conscious and unconscious process of recognition in the observer, who responds emotionally and emphatically to the work in terms of their own life experience, therefore the artist creates the work based on their own personal sensory information and the beholder re-creates it by responding to its inherent ambiguity and makes it personal to them. His installation was exhibited at the Art Market in York. <ref name="The Beholders Share">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio - avant garde immersion |publisher=One&Other |url=http://www.oneandother.com/community/features/exclusive-avant-garde-immersion-hwyl-nofio-at-the-art-market?mode=window|accessdate=2017-04-12}}</ref>
In 2016, Parry he was commissioned to create a sound/visual installation, called The Beholder's Share.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/334865786|title=The Beholders Share|accessdate=12 April 2017|website=Vimeo.com}}</ref>
The installation was a play on perception where the ambiguity in the piece elicits both a conscious and unconscious process of recognition in the observer, who responds emotionally and emphatically to the work in terms of their own life experience, therefore the artist creates the work based on their own personal sensory information and the beholder re-creates it by responding to its inherent ambiguity and makes it personal to them. His installation was exhibited at the Art Market in York.<ref name="The Beholders Share">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio – avant garde immersion |publisher=One&Other |url=http://www.oneandother.com/community/features/exclusive-avant-garde-immersion-hwyl-nofio-at-the-art-market?mode=window|accessdate=12 April 2017}}</ref>


==Discography==
==Discography==
*''[[The Singers And Harp Players Are Dumb]]'' (1999)<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web|title=The Singers And Harp Players Are Dumb |publisher=Allmusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-singers-and-harp-players-are-dumb-r894105|accessdate=2011-10-07}}</ref>
*''[[The Singers And Harp Players Are Dumb]]'' (1999)<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web|title=The Singers And Harp Players Are Dumb |publisher=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-singers-and-harp-players-are-dumb-r894105|accessdate=7 October 2011}}</ref>
*''[[Hymnal (album)|Hymnal]]'' (2002)
*''[[Hymnal (album)|Hymnal]]'' (2002)
*''[[Anatomy of Distort]]'' (2003)
*''[[Anatomy of Distort]]'' (2003)
*''[[Hounded by Fury]]'' (2006)<ref name="Hounded by Fury">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio-Hounded By Fury|publisher=Allmusic Guide|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/hounded-by-fury-mw0002306183|accessdate=2013-03-25}}</ref><ref name="Hwyl Nofio Mix">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio Garden of Earthly Delights|publisher=garden of earthly delights.com|url=http://www.gardenofearthlydelights.com/JulyAug06.html|accessdate=2011-09-28}}</ref>
*''[[Hounded by Fury]]'' (2006)<ref name="Hounded by Fury">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio-Hounded By Fury|publisher=Allmusic Guide|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/hounded-by-fury-mw0002306183|accessdate=25 March 2013}}</ref><ref name="Hwyl Nofio Mix">{{cite web|title=Hwyl Nofio Garden of Earthly Delights|publisher=garden of earthly delights.com|url=http://www.gardenofearthlydelights.com/JulyAug06.html|accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
*''Christ Distort'' EP
*''Christ Distort'' EP
*''[[Dark (album)|Dark]]'' (2012)
*''[[Dark (album)|Dark]]'' (2012)
*''[[From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow (album)|From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow]]'' (2017)
*''[[From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow (album)|From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow]]'' (2017)
*''Isolate'' (2020)


===Compilation albums===
===Compilation albums===
*''[[The Wire Tapper]]'' 15 (Various Artists)(Hwyl Nofio) track (Broken Again);[[Compact Disc|CD]] )<ref name="The Wire">{{cite web|title=Wire Tapper|publisher=The Wire Magazine/Issue 268|url= http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/268/|accessdate=2011-09-25}}</ref>
*''[[The Wire Tapper]]'' 15 (Various Artists)(Hwyl Nofio) track (Broken Again);CD )<ref name="The Wire">{{cite web|title=Wire Tapper|publisher=The Wire Magazine/Issue 268|url= http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/268/|accessdate=25 September 2011}}</ref>
*''Brave New Wales'' (Various Artists) (Fourier Transform, 2008;[[Compact Disc|CD]] box set)
*''Brave New Wales'' (Various Artists) (Fourier Transform, 2008;CD box set)


===Unreleased, limited edition and promo-only albums===
===Unreleased, limited edition and promo-only albums===
The following full-length albums have never seen commercial release. Despite their unavailability on disc, they are included in almost every official discography issued by the band.
The following full-length albums have never seen commercial release. Despite their unavailability on disc, they are included in almost every official discography issued by the band.


*”From Elevated Gangways Rivers Of Molten Metal Flow” (Promo-only, 2008);[[Compact Disc|CD]]
*"From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow" (Promo-only, 2008);CD

== See also ==
*[[List of ambient music artists]]


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Musical groups established in 1997]]
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1997]]
[[Category:Ambient music groups]]
[[Category:Ambient music groups]]
[[Category:Welsh electronic musicians]]

Latest revision as of 11:40, 18 July 2024

Hwyl Nofio
OriginUnited Kingdom
GenresExperimental, industrial, avant-garde, drone
Years active1997–present
LabelsHWYL
Fourier Transform
MembersSteve Parry
Past membersTrevor Stainsby
Sandor Szabo
Fredrik Soegaard
Balazs Major
Gorwel Owen,
Mark Beazley

Hwyl Nofio (from Welsh meaning 'swimming fun') is a Welsh experimental music group formed by Steve Parry.[1]

History

[edit]

Formed in 1997, Hwyl Nofios' approach touches on various diverse styles and genres,[2] including, industrial music, drone, ambient and noise. Hwyl Nofio is an evolving ensemble based around its originator Steve Parry, who previously had been a founding member of the Surrealist music group Neu Electrikk[3] and also worked with Matt Johnson of The The[4] and Colin Potter of Nurse with Wound.[5] Hwyl Nofio referred to the approach as a marriage of dilemmas being resolved in another space whereby the music explores and exploits an ongoing collision between harmony and disharmony. Hwyl Nofios' influences include The Velvet Underground, Neu, Jimi Hendrix, John Cage and Harry Partch, The band has over the years has consisted of Steve Parry avant-garde guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with Trevor Stainsby, Sandor Szabo, Fredrik Soegaard, Balazs Major, and Mark Beazley of the instrumental ambient group Rothko, and Gorwel Owen.[6] In 2012, Hwyl Nofio released "DARK".[7][8] In 2020, as Hwyl Nofio Parry also collaborated with artists such as Rhodri Davies and Steve James Sherlock on "Isolate".[9]

Installations and performance art

[edit]

In 2016, Parry he was commissioned to create a sound/visual installation, called The Beholder's Share.[10] The installation was a play on perception where the ambiguity in the piece elicits both a conscious and unconscious process of recognition in the observer, who responds emotionally and emphatically to the work in terms of their own life experience, therefore the artist creates the work based on their own personal sensory information and the beholder re-creates it by responding to its inherent ambiguity and makes it personal to them. His installation was exhibited at the Art Market in York.[11]

Discography

[edit]

Compilation albums

[edit]
  • The Wire Tapper 15 (Various Artists)(Hwyl Nofio) track (Broken Again);CD )[15]
  • Brave New Wales (Various Artists) (Fourier Transform, 2008;CD box set)

Unreleased, limited edition and promo-only albums

[edit]

The following full-length albums have never seen commercial release. Despite their unavailability on disc, they are included in almost every official discography issued by the band.

  • "From Elevated Gangways Rivers of Molten Metal Flow" (Promo-only, 2008);CD

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Hwyl Nofio". BBC. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
  2. ^ "Musique Machine". Musiquemachine. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  3. ^ Panciera, Mario (2008). 45 Revolutions, The Bible of Punk/Mod/Powerpop/New Wave/NWOBHM/Indie Singles(1976/79).Volume 1 UK/Ireland. Italy: Hurdy Gurdy Books. p. 446. ISBN 978-88-95592-00-8.
  4. ^ Fraser, Neil (2018). Long Shadows and High Hopes, The Life and Times of Matt Johnson & The The.UK/Ireland. United Kingdom: Omnibus Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-78558-230-1.
  5. ^ "Mixing It/BBC Radio 3". BBC.co..uk. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  6. ^ "Wire Tapper". Wire. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  7. ^ "Hwyl Nofio – The Lay of the Land". The Quietus. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  8. ^ "Hwyl Nofio – The Licence of Dark Spaces". One&Other. p. 16,17. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  9. ^ "Hwyl Nofio - Isolate". Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  10. ^ "The Beholders Share". Vimeo.com. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  11. ^ "Hwyl Nofio – avant garde immersion". One&Other. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  12. ^ "The Singers And Harp Players Are Dumb". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  13. ^ "Hwyl Nofio-Hounded By Fury". Allmusic Guide. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  14. ^ "Hwyl Nofio Garden of Earthly Delights". garden of earthly delights.com. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  15. ^ "Wire Tapper". The Wire Magazine/Issue 268. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
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