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It merges motorik grooves over saturated shoe gazing fuzz with impressionistic studio manipulation, orchestral synthesiser arrangements and brutal yet surreal imagery and word play in the Welsh language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving signed their songs over to a local publisher who eventually disappeared off the face of the Earth, Ffa Coffi Pawb’s music has been out of print for decades (with the exception of the 2004 compilation album \u003ci\u003eAm Byth\u003c\/i\u003e, released on the SFA associated Placid Casual label). After untangling a complicated web of time, \u003ci\u003eHei Vidal!\u003c\/i\u003e is available on vinyl for the first time having only been on cassette and very few CD copies on its original release on Ankst in 1992. The reissue marks the 30th anniversary of the band’s final show at Builth Wells Memorial Hall in August 1993 (supported by a young Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGruff Rhys on \u003ci\u003eHei Vidal!\u003c\/i\u003e “We made the record in our early 20s and it was a dream-pop distillation of our early 1970’s Glam, power-pop and Motorik obsessions - combined no doubt by our devotion to shoe gazing contemporaries from the Creation label, American college rock and our heroes of the Welsh language underground like Datblygu, John Cale and Y Cyrff. The nonsensical album title is a quote from the song Colli’r Goriad and the Vidal in question perhaps a hallucinated amalgamation of Gore Vidal and Vidal Sassoon; both of which were omnipresent personalities on early 90’s TV, one as a pundit the other a seemingly rolling TV shampoo advert.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ara Deg","offers":[{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50389372633419,"sku":"2025470","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50389372764491,"sku":"2025471","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50389372862795,"sku":"2025472","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Hei_Vidal_4000x4000_cover_jpeg_5235da5d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726358896"},{"product_id":"dalec-peilon","title":"Dalec Peilon","description":"\u003cp\u003eObsessed with power pop, Krautrock, death rock and glam rock, Ffa Coffi Pawb were one of Wales’ most far out bands back in the day. Although loved by all who heard them, their music seemed to fall between the cracks due to both rudimentary distribution methods and crazed deals with music industry bods who quickly disappeared off the face of the Earth. Now, in the white heat of the 21st century and following the critically acclaimed 2023 rerelease of their third and final album \u003ci\u003eHei Vidal!\u003c\/i\u003e, Ffa Coffi Pawb have dusted down and cleaned up their two other albums - \u003ci\u003eDalec Pelion\u003c\/i\u003e (their first album, originally released in 1988) and \u003ci\u003eClymhalio\u003c\/i\u003e (their second LP from 1991). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Recorded by experimental electronic producer Gorwel Owen in a flat above a Post Office in Rhosneigr and initially released on cassette by Bangor label Casetiau Huw, \u003ci\u003eDalec Pelion\u003c\/i\u003e will finally be released on vinyl (as well as CD and digital platforms) for the first time. The album has been remastered by Super Furry Animals’ archivist Kliph Scurlock and features brand new artwork by H Hawkline. Of that period, singer and guitarist Gruff Rhys says: “we’d released 50 copies of a home made cassette of songs, jams and cut-up audio collages that were recorded on a cassette recorder microphone and sold at record fairs and pubs from a Kwik Save carrier bag, then the band saw the inclusion of  the track ‘Octapws’ on a Pop Positif compilation vinyl EP, which was followed by a meeting with experimental electronic producer Gorwel Owen who, in 1987 invited Ffa Coffi Pawb to record at his home studio in near by Ynys Môn. The recordings were made in dribs and drabs over a few months in a flat above Gorwel’s parent’s Post Office in Rhosneigr  and became our first studio album \u003ci\u003eDalec Peilon\u003c\/i\u003e - released on the Bangor cassette label Casetiau Huw in 1988.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ara Deg","offers":[{"title":"Silver LP | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50967099179339,"sku":"2236108","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"White LP","offer_id":50967099146571,"sku":"2236094","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50966870884683,"sku":"2236093","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ARDG2CD_-_sticker_position_guide13_d2b21b37_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734006598"},{"product_id":"clymahlio","title":"Clymhalio","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally released as a single cassette run in 1991, this Super Furry precursor sees their second album pressed to cd \u0026amp; vinyl for the first time ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDay-glo welsh language dream pop from 1991! 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