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Elvin Brandhi
(United Kingdom)
Bio:
Elvin Brandhi is an improvising lyricist and beat producer instigating projects of improvised socio-aesthetic overflow expanding haphazardly with circus intent. The main body of her education takes shape via contextual shifts and collaborations. She uses sound and image as an expansive gestural-emotive language transgressing intrinsic systemics and inherited syntactical etiquettes. Her performances are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where her caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness. She currently has no base, expanding sonic mutation as a constantly morphing communicational code.
CONCEPT
Elvin Brandhi collaborates with one half of Dat Pat Morgan to remix of the Datblygu song Gwlad ar fy Nghefn, which in Pat's words epitomises revolutionary spirit by 'railing against the traditional Welsh cultural icons bringing a dark sense of reality of what it’s doing to the disaffected youth who feel they have nothing in common with it'. It boldly voices contradictions between collective sentiment and hierarchically prescribed national identity.
Datblygu was a prominent part of the Welsh-language DIY scene, which emerged in the 1980s, a time of significant social and political upheaval in Wales, including the miners' strike and opposition to Thatcherism.
Lyric
WELSH
Gwlad ar fy Nghefn :
Maes Eisteddfod anhysbys
VD ar werth yn y maes pebyll
Byddwch slebog cyn bod yn briod
A cymrwch asid cyn bod yn athro
Ac rwy'n teimlo fel Cymdeithas yr Iaith
Neu dyn dall yn chwilio am waith
Ac mae pob cliche'n ffaith
Ac mae cerdded un cam gormod fel taith
Ac mae byw yng Nghymru
'Run peth â syllu ar y paent yn sychu
Ar y gwair yn tyfu
Byw yng Nghymru
'Run peth â syllu ar y paent yn sychu
Ar y gwair yn tyfu lan
Dydd Sul blin ym Mhen Llŷn
Ac mae pync yn cuddio ar gornel
Crap apel y capel
Ond mae eu seidr yn surach na'r beibl
O cadwch talwrn y beirdd
Ym magiau plastig y taeau llydan
Dyw nhw byth yn gwrthod brechdan
Ac mae nhw'n chwerthin pan mae pawb arall yn
Byw yng Nghymru
'Run peth â syllu ar y paent yn sychu
Ar y gwair yn tyfu
Byw yng Nghymru
'Run peth â syllu ar y paent yn sychu
Ar y gwair yn tyfu lan
ENGLISH
Land On My Back :
An unknown Eisteddfod field
VD for sale on the campsite
But be a slut before getting married
And take acid before becoming a teacher
And I feel like Cymdeithas yr Iaith
Or a blind man looking for work
And every cliché is a fact
And taking one step is too much like a journey
And living in Wales
Is the same as watching the paint dry
And the grass grow (x2)
A weary Sunday on the Llyn Peninsula
A punk is hiding on the corner
The Chapel’s crap appeal
But his cider is more sour than the Bible
Keep Talwrn y Beirdd
The wide ties, the plastic macs
They never refuse a sandwich
And they laugh when everyone else does
Living in Wales
Is the same as watching the paint dry
And the grass grow (x2)
The same old Noson Lawen
An excess of butter cakes
An extension of the Gorsedd and Urdd
Every rural citizen sucking his grass
Living in Wales is the same as watching the paint dry
