welsh group PERERIN

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This Welsh folk/prog group, whose name means "Pilgrim"  recorded
three albums at the end of the 70s/early 80s.  They are distinctly
folk flavoured but  feature more complex and contemporary
arrangements, lots of flutes, and even mellotron in some tracks, and
fuzzy and/or searing psychedelic guitars .  The effect is
haunting, and the male and female vocals, all in Welsh, are very
strong.  I have only heard the first 2, and they are equally great
- "Haul ar Y Eira" and "Teithgan".  Both are readily available on
CD now, the third not yet.  They do not seem to have a web
page.  Here is a good page that describes their albums:

http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/reissue.html

Apparently there was a pre-Pererin group called BRAN that sounds really good.

http://ezhevika.blogspot.com/2006/09/bran-hedfan-1976-pre-pererin.html

The song "Pary's Mountain" from their second album "Teithgan" is one of
the best album closers I have heard.  It reminds me of what the
Byrds might have done if they had survived another decade...and were
Welsh.

Ken

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kenethlevine Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Prog-Folk Team Joined: December 06 2006 Location: New England Status: Offline Points: 8849	Topic: welsh group PERERIN Posted: July 01 2007 at 22:58
	This Welsh folk/prog group, whose name means "Pilgrim" recorded three albums at the end of the 70s/early 80s. They are distinctly folk flavoured but feature more complex and contemporary arrangements, lots of flutes, and even mellotron in some tracks, and fuzzy and/or searing psychedelic guitars . The effect is haunting, and the male and female vocals, all in Welsh, are very strong. I have only heard the first 2, and they are equally great - "Haul ar Y Eira" and "Teithgan". Both are readily available on CD now, the third not yet. They do not seem to have a web page. Here is a good page that describes their albums: http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/reissue.html Apparently there was a pre-Pererin group called BRAN that sounds really good. http://ezhevika.blogspot.com/2006/09/bran-hedfan-1976-pre-pererin.html The song "Pary's Mountain" from their second album "Teithgan" is one of the best album closers I have heard. It reminds me of what the Byrds might have done if they had survived another decade...and were Welsh. Ken

Uther Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: August 04 2006 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 86	Posted: August 01 2007 at 14:26
	Yea Pererin is a really good prog folk band 3 albums...after their prog rock incurssion in a band called Bran (welsh too), wiht 3 albums too Months ago i wrote about Bran too while i was in Led Zep campaign
	What! can the devil speak true? Macbeth, 1. 3

Sean Trane Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19594	Posted: August 02 2007 at 04:55
	I've been looking in the matter in the last month or so!
	let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword