Robin Williamson, The Seed-At-Zero - 1h 7m 5s

Tracks & Durations

1. The World	2:48
2. The Seed-At-Zero	6:55
3. Skull And Nettlework	2:53
4. Holy Spring	5:01
5. To God In God's Absence	2:52
6. Lament Of The Old Man	2:20
7. In My Craft Or Sullen Art	4:19
8. Verses At Balwearie Tower	1:11
9. Can Y Gwynt	3:44
10. By Weary Well	2:04
11. The Bells Of Rhymney	4:07
12. On No Work Of Words	6:45
13. The Barley	3:43
14. Hold Hard, These Ancient Minutes In The Cuckoo's Month	2:55
15. Poem On His Birthday	11:41
16. For My Thomas	3:37

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Review

Although he was born in Scotland, Robin Williamson has devoted his life to exploring the music, poetry, and songs of the wider Celtic world. On The Seed-at-Zero, he turns his attention to the Welsh bardic tradition, which for him includes the mythic figures Taliesen and Llywarch Hen, the 17th century metaphysical poet Henry Vaughn, and modern poets Idris Davies and Dylan Thomas. Williamson also includes some of his own songs, using them to answer the questions raised by the older poems. Setting poetry to music is a dodgy undertaking in the best of circumstances, and when the poet is Thomas, whose intensely lyrical verse is already more musical than many songs, the task seems especially doomed to failure. But Williamson has composed stark and effective settings that support the words without hindering the carefully crafted rhythms. He backs himself on harp, guitar, and mandolin while performing versions of poems such as "In My Craft or Sullen Art" and "On No Work of Words" in a declamatory style that is halfway between speech and song. The music on The Seed-at-Zero is more subdued than the psychedelic Celtic folk-rock of his first group, the Incredible String Band, but while Williamson has foregone the musical fripperies of his earlier work, he has developed a style that is more personal and deeply felt. --Michael Simmons

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