“Ffynnon are a four-piece band from South Wales who play traditional music with jazzy and bluesy inflections. On this album they endeavour to draw out the connections between people, history and the nature of place and language. It begins with a recording of a young girl asking her grandmother to name all her brothers and sisters, she was one of ten children and so her reply is a beautiful litany of Welsh names. There is a grandmother in the second track as well. ‘Cherries’ is a poem by Janet Dubé sketching the life of her grandmother, who had to leave her home and abandon her language to find work. Set to Stacey Blythe’s accordion, Matthew Lovett’s bass and Emma Trend’s violin, it is sung lucidly and straightforwardly by Lynne Denman.” Songlines