Gwenno - Kov album review: A rich blend of layered electronics and folky rhythms
HAVING released an award-winning debut album sung entirely in Welsh – nodding to her mother’s side of the family – singer, songwriter and musician Gwenno Saunders now avers to her father’s side and performs entirely in Cornish – a language spoken fluently by fewer than a thousand people.
Gwenno - Kov
The result is simply mesmerising: a rich blend of layered electronics and folky rhythms, Gwenno digging deep into the history, poetry and mythology of Cornwall and even manages to reference its infamous tourist congestion on Daromres Y’n Howl (Traffic In The Sun).