hwyl nofio | it

hwyl nofio ‘a marriage of dilemmas being resolved in another space’ hwyl nofio is a group that defies simple classification. Variously described as experimental, avant-rock, ambient, contemporary classical, free improvisation, noise, the enigmatic collective specialises in music that blurs the boundaries that usually define genres. hwyl nofio (the name translates from welsh roughly as ‘emotional swimmers’) is an evolving ensemble based around its originator Steve Parry, who explores and exploits an ongoing collision between harmony and disharmony. Largely built around Parry’s abstract guitar patterns the music shifts between drone, embryonic melody and crackling elemental noise, re-placing rocks normal linear dynamic...