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May 2005

To complete our triple bill of radio play over the last month or so, Hwyl Nofio will be featured on Classic FM's weekend show 'The Chiller Cabinet'. If you're in the UK you can listen to Classic FM on FM or Digital Radio (DAB). If you're further afield then you can still listen online. See the Classic FM website for further details.

More good news! For listeners in the UK, Hwyl Nofio will be featured on the very popular BBC Radio 3 new music show, 'Mixing It' this Friday (13th May). The show will be playing the track 'Holy Ghosts' from the 'hymnal' album so, if you're still wavering as to whether you want to part with your hard-earned cash, this is the ideal opportunity to have a listen to a complete track. If you're not in the UK, or missed the show, but fancy tuning in then follow the link above for details of how to listen online.

March 2005

A double helping of news this month:

Steve has just completed a special hymnal mix for the hugely influential radio show, The Garden of Earthly Delights. The show will be broadcast on April 29th 2005 and is available over the web, on a free mix CD available from the Garden's site, or even on terrestrial radio if you happen to be in the Milton Keynes area. The mix will include some of Steve's favourite music, plus some special Hwyl and pre-Hwyl material.

In addition to this month's pottering in 'The Garden', Hwyl Nofio also have a very special, limited-edition CD release.

Anatomy of Distort - initial edition of a periodic series of ltd edition releases from hwyl nofio.

'I intended this as an evolving thing - not static - an ensemble of people I admire with the desire to experiment with systems of sound.' - Steve Parry.

Track listing:
1. the life and death of joseph merrick (8.59)
2. red herald (4.24)
3. I love you but I don't like you (9.18)
4. the wern (7.17)
5. the face of a social butterfly (5.52)
6. murder in the cathedral (3.29)
7. the end

Sorry - this disc has now completely sold out.

"It's always hard to not slip into hyperbole... but even harder when we're dealing with a record this good." - Aquarius Records

Summer 2004

The good news is that Hwyl Nofio have a new release!

The latest CD "hymnal" is available now on Hwyl Records.

Click here to buy direct, or here to preview.

Hymnal-
(n.) a collection of hymns for use in
divine worship; (adj.) of or pertaining to a hymn
or hymns - O.E.D.

Definitions are always a problem for me. There are lots of feelings or events that defy definition in anything other than the banal terms of how that feeling is described to someone else or how that event occurred as a succession of smaller events. The definitions always seem to convey everything you need to know about that feeling or that event, except one thing you really need to know: The feeling of what it is like.
Qualia - The "what it's like" character of mental states. The way it feels to have mental states such as pain, seeing red, smelling a rose, etc - Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind.
You see, philosophers have a word for what I mean. Scientists can tell you the physical processes by which images or sounds enter the brain and are processed but they have no language or method to explain the processes by which we get the feelings about what happens: qualia.
When it has been dry for a while in Summer and a light rain falls there is a specific sound made by the drops- emphatic but soft. The dampening dust produces a scent a bit like copper wire, a bit like blood. In me, this event and its associated stimuli produce qualia that are invariant: intense joy, suicidal melancholy, an incredible optimism about the future and a gutting sense of the joys I have missed or lost. All at once, with equal intensity,
I have these qualia.
But its just rain isn't it? Drizzle? Precipitation?
No, it's hymnal (T.Crawley)

Tracks include:

1. A brutality of fact

2. All you knew were doomed

3. Children are

4. Spirits

5. Disciples of the decibel (part 1)

6. Head Eater

7. Hymnal

8. Holy Ghosts

Produced by Steve Parry

Engineered with the assistance of Trevor Stainsby

Design Type B people

Photographs Steve Jadd

All compositions © Steve Parry 2002 Hymnal

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