GERAINT FFRANCON

This is what you will get for your £10:
Welcome pack - CD of your choice, badge, postcard, blank CD to aid collaboration, and other surprises.
Free downloads - links to three albums, as well as a zipfile of random sounds/images/text to aid collaboration.
Priority contact - with me via email, My Faceberk and whatever social networking sites happen to be flavour of the month at the time.
Hand-made personalised copy of the finished album on CD. ETA Summer 2010.
Other stuff! - of a special, secretive and sometimes random nature

The third and final High Quality Recordings compilation. Tracks from Stabmaster Vinyl, Blodyn Tatws, High Quality Recordings (the artist), Ffrancon, Les Idiots, Seindorff, Rerenaissance Of The Celtic Harp, and the Trawsfynydd Lo-Fi Liberation Front. A final welcome insight into the evolution of the small but perfectly formed DIY/micro/imaginary label that used to occupy my head. / Trydydd casgliad label Recordiau Safon Uchel. Yn cynnwys traciau gan Stabmaster Vinyl, Blodyn Tatws, Recordiau Safon Uchel (yr artist), Ffrancon, Les Idiots, Seindorff, a'r Trawsfynydd Lo-Fi Liberation Front. Cyfle i fwrw cipolwg olaf ar esblygiad label DIY/micro/dychmygol mwya blaenllaw Cymru. "Arbennig" - Y Selar.

A collaboration between Geraint Ffrancon and William Cnicht. Definitely electronic, but also alive with a host of other influences and all manner of instrumentation making the unlikeliest of appearances - guitars, pedal steel, harmonica, tin whistle, kazoo, accordion, zither, and indecipherable human voices... / Cydweithiad yw Seindorff rhwng Geraint Ffrancon a William Cnicht. Albym electroneg ei naws ond yn frith gyda dylanwadau eraill a offerynnau di-ri - gitars, pedal dur, harmonica, chwib tin, kazoo, acordion, sither, a lleisiau anealladwy...

Mae Cyfres yn casglu 15 trac o'r gyfres o CDs mini tair modfedd daeth allan ar Recordiau Safon Uchel yn ystod 2007 a 2008. Mae'r traciau'n amrywio o darnau ambient tywyll i toriadau hollol rhonc i disgo i swn robotaidd electroneg. Mae'r albym hon wedi ei gartrefu mewn bocs metalig hardd. / Series collects 15 tracks from the series of three inch mini CDs released on High Quality Recordings during 2007 and 2008. The tracks range from stark ambient soundscapes to mentalist breaks to disco to robotic electronic noise. This album is housed in a beautiful metallic box.

The second High Quality Recordings compilation, covering the years 2004-2006. Includes organic produce from Estron, Stabmaster Vinyl, Seindorff, Ill Informed, Blodyn Tatws and Ior. / Ail gasgliad Recordiau Safon Uchel, yn pontio'r cyfnod rhwng 2004-2006. Yn cynnwys cynnyrch organig gan Estron, Stabmaster Vinyl, Seindorff, Ill Informed, Blodyn Tatws a Ior.

"Approaches the pristine aloofness of Harold Budd or Gavin Bryars... Ultra cool, idyllic electronica" - The Wire

'Y Crack Cymraeg' ('The Welsh Crack') is an attempt at updating a thousand years of traditional Welsh folk music, and contains genuinely beautful and moving melodies. Probably my favourite High Quality Recordings release. / Ymgais i diweddaru mil o flynyddoedd o gerddoriaeth traddodiadol Cymraeg yw 'Y Crack Cymraeg', a mae'n cynnwys melodiau hardd a cyffrous. Mae'n debyg mae hwn yw fy hoff albym o ol-gatalog Recordiau Safon Uchel.

The sound of Llechi is profoundly influenced by the stark, still landscapes of Gwynedd, which range from the high mountains of Snowdonia to the rocky coast of the Lleyn Peninsula. The track titles are grid references, pointing to particular locations throughout the area which we recommend you visit while listening to the music. / Mae swn Llechi wedi ei ddylanwadu gan dirlun anystwyth, llonydd Gwynedd, yn ymestyn o ucheldiroedd Eryri hyd at arfordir creigiog Pen Llyn. Mae'r traciau wedi eu henwi ar ôl safleoedd grid, sy'n cyfeirio at leoliadau yn yr ardal yr ydym yn argymell y dylech ymweld â nhw wrth wrando ar y gerddoriaeth. Tracks: SH635680 - copa Moel Faban summit / SH663594 - copa Tryfan summit / SH593607 - chwarel lechi Dinorwig slate quarry, Llanberis / SH592371 - pentref Portmeirion village / SH142255 - edrych tuag at Ynys Enlli/looking towards Bardsey Island