Most strikingly, it’s there on the ethereal tribal-pop-folk of the techno immortality-laden ’Sky Burial’, which uses a vocoder for the chorus, allied to colourful guitar textures, Pilkington’s earthy vocal, a dexterous jazzy bass passage, and old school John Carpenter-style Moog synth.
Dawson plays bass for the most part, Davies on harp and guitar, while the music deftly, and rather brilliantly, carries minor aspects of old world folk and medievalism, into an electric 21st century world.
Mogic is a decisive move away from the avant garde meanderings of original duo Dawson and Davies, into a wildly diverse, alt-pop approach, with each member, bar Davies, contributing vocals. With a band name that comes from the Welsh for The Old North (the region covering southern Scotland and northern England in the early Middle Ages), Mogic is Hen Ogledd’s third LP, an ambitious, eclectic and experimental fusion, that touches upon everything from artificial intelligence to pre-medieval history, and from robots to romance, in its general look at the impact of machines and future digital imprints has, or may have, on us all, forever. He continues an interest in marrying ancient spirituality, myth and tradition with modern and futuristic tomorrows with his return, now over a year on from his universally lauded masterpiece Peasant.
Richard Dawson has reconvened with long-time collaborator and harpist Rhodri Davies, singer and multi-instrumentalist Dawn Bothwell, along with newly added member Sally Pilkington, for Hen Ogledd’s follow-up to 2016’s Bronze.
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