Tip of The Week: Rhosyn - Glass
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|12:30 UK time, Tuesday, 21 December 2010
It's the time of year when everybody seems to start obsessing about reflecting on 'the top 10' of everything in 2010. The top 10 films of 2010, the top 10 albums of 2010, the top 10 (most unimportant and ridiculous) celebrity feuds of 2010, there is even the top 10 Twitter moments of 2010!
I guess we can count ourselves lucky we don't get top 100 lists online, and we don't have to sit through 3 hours of z-list celebrities reeling off exhilarating stories about why Buckaroo is the 57th best toy of the decade.
Well my friends, there are no Top 10 Tip of The Weeks here (far too many Ts for a start). This is simply our final tip of 2010, and they go by the name of Rhosyn.
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Rhosyn are techincally a 5-piece led by Rose Dagul. They used to be Wap Wap Wow but apparently it's quite a challenge to record a nine-piece band in a shared flat, so they downsized. The sounds you hear in this track Glass, however, are created entireley by Rose, as she played, recorded and wrote this song when she set up her own studio for a month in Rhoscolyn, Anglesey.
You only have to take a glance at a handful of images from Rhoscolyn and you get a sense of how this music came to sound this way, and why Rose confessed 'she got a bit spiritual' whilst she was there.
Rose comes from Oxford and has been supported by BBC Introducing in Oxford, as well as musicians like Yannis Philippakis (Foals) and Hugo Manuel (Jonquil), who have produced tracks for Rhosyn.
Hope you like the track. Stay tuned in 2011 for more brilliant newcomers.
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