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Artist News CMU Approved Releases
Approved: Sywel Nyw
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 11 November 2021
Each month throughout 2021, Sywel Nyw – aka musician Lewys Wyn – has released a new Welsh language single with a different collaborator.
Joining him along the way have been Catatonia’s Mark Roberts, Gwenno Morgan, Casi Wyn and more. The latest, ‘Seagal’, sees him joined by Lolo Selyf of punk band Y Ffug for an examination of 80s cliches.
Wyn says that he wanted “to create an aggressive song, a song with drive”. And what says aggression and drive more than Steven Seagal? The result is an infectious synth-pop track with a lyrical hook that translates as “you look like Steven Seagal, you move like Steven Seagal”.
With two tracks in the year-long project still to come, all twelve will be collected on new album ‘Deuddeg’ (that’s ‘Twelve’ in Welsh), which is set for release on 12 Jan.
Watch the video for ‘Seagal’ here:
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