D. Gwalia

D. Gwalia

D. Gwalia (born in Wales) is a songwriter, based in the UK.

D. Gwalia has performed across the UK, USA, and in Europe. In 2014 He released his second album The Iodine Trade, a Ballardian collection of songs, spoken word and sound collage. [1] In 2010, he released his debut album In Puget Sound.[2] The album was reviewed in both local press and national publications. [3] Comparisons were drawn with the work of American film-maker David Lynch, due to In Puget Sound's 'other-worldly' atmosphere. [4]

D. Gwalia's second album, The Iodine Trade, was described as 'Ballardian' - [5] In 2015 Journalist Neil Cooper writing for the List magazine stated

"D. Gwalia has cut a shadowy figure around the unsung sidelines of Edinburgh's myriad low-key music scenes. Originally from Wales before taking a peripatetic path to Oxford, Gwalia's cracked folk and strung-out gothica was first heard on his 2010 debut, 'In Puget Sound.' This follow-up digital-only release charts even starker terrain in a bleak compendium of scratched-out song collages and apocalyptic portents which conjure up the strung-out ghosts of post Pink Floyd Syd Barrett at his most insular, all whimsy lost"

"...here, however, Gwalia sounds abandoned, left foraging in the dirt of a Ballardian nothing-scape"

Neil Cooper, The List Magazine Feb 2015 [6]


Track list: The Iodine Trade

  1. 'A Day Out'
  2. 'Vamp'
  3. 'Annihilation Pair'
  4. 'The Iodine Trade'
  5. 'Verloren'
  6. 'Allumette'
  7. 'Alan's Machine'
  8. 'Pillion'
  9. 'Illuminations'
  10. '400 °F'
  11. 'Darling Where's My Nuclear War?'
  12. 'Sleeping in Abandoned Cars

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Track list: In Puget Sound

  1. "In Puget Sound"
  2. "Orson Welles"
  3. "Black Current"
  4. "Letter to Tiger"
  5. "All Avenues"
  6. "Glass Harmonica"
  7. "Lost Volts"
  8. "Solomon Empire"
  9. "And When Is She"
  10. "The Burn"
  11. "White Horse"
  12. "Blood Simple"
  13. "The Cruel Ship's Captain"
  14. "Mr. Sommer" (hidden track on CD version only)

References

  1. ↑ http://www.musicinoxford.co.uk/2014/11/24/d-gwalia-the-iodine-trade/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ MacKinnon, Colin (1 May 2010). "D. Gwalia: In Puget Sound". UK: Music in Oxford. Retrieved 21 January 2013. External link in |publisher= (help)
  3. ↑ https://www.list.co.uk/article/68428-d-gwalia-the-iodine-trade/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ http://www.dgwalia.com/#!press. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ http://coffeetablenotes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/d-gwalia-iodine-trade-elizabeth-volt.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ https://www.list.co.uk/article/68428-d-gwalia-the-iodine-trade/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/9bf8498b-00c5-4820-8ee1-011c051b8185
  8. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02bndsc

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