ACOUSTIC MUSIC

BIOGRAPHIE - DISCOGRAPHIE MIT SOUNDBEISPIELEN/WITH SOUNDSAMPLES

BIOGRAPHIE

Dylan has developed an international career as an instrumentalist that has seen him collaborate with such great British musicians as Danny Thompson and Richard Thompson. He has also worked with the great Husna Arslan in Turkey, Canadian guitar virtuoso, Don Ross as well as Akash Deep in Rajasthan. In the last few years he has toured with the ground-breaking East European group, Szapora and recorded and toured with probably the finest contemporary folk singer in Britain today, Julie Murphy.
In October 2002 Dylan toured with the Music from The Northlands as the welsh representative and plans are afoot to record this project for release next year. His new CD ‘Ffynnon Ofor’ is now ready for release (Acoustic Music Records) and is scheduled for release in the spring of 2003-2005, to coincide with a solo tour in Germany. In his solo concerts, Fowler brings together a rich mixture of original compositions alongside traditional tunes from Wales, Brittany and Ireland. Add to this an interest in East European music and Jazz inspired compositions and you have the makings of a fascinating musical journey.

DISCOGRAPHIE

PORTRAIT

acoustic guitar with ensemble
Recording: 1999
Time: 55:35
Musicians
Dylan Fowler: guitars, oboe, low whistle, mandocello, charango
Paul Clarvis: Percussion (Track 1/6/10) · Simon Preston: Surdo (Track 9) · Luke Goss: Accordion (Track 2/12) · Gillian Stevens: Viola Da Gamba (Track 4/12) · Sovra Wilson-Dickson: Violin (Track 4/12) · Oliver Wilson-Dickson: Violin (Track 1/10) · Phil Tomkins: Viola (Track 4/12)

CD-TRACKS
ROUNDHOUSE

· RHIGOS

· PORT GAN AIMN /MCHUGHES

· MEMORIA E FADO

· GILLIAN'S REEL

· ERGEN DIADO

· PAPILLON IAR FACH YR HAF

· TIME REMEMBERED

· BIG 10

· LE SCORFF

· PORTRAIT

· STILL WATERS

INFO
Arabische Klangbilder begegnen uns auf „Portrait“ ebenso wie südamerikanische Rhythmen oder das Jazz-Idiom eines Bill Evans. Zudem zeigt sich Fowler als Meister des sparsamen, aber umso wirkungsvolleren Arrangements. So verblüfft der Waliser nicht allein durch den Einsatz exotischer Saiteninstrumente wie Mandocello oder Charango; vielmehr noch ist es das atmosphärisch dichte, hochgradig kammermusikalische Zusammenspiel, etwa zwischen Gitarre, Viola da Gamba, Akkordeon und Violine, das „Portrait“ zu einem so faszinierenden Hörerlebnis werden lässt.
On “Portrait” we will meet Arabian tunes as well as South American rhythms and the Jazz influences of Bill Evans. And what‘s more, Fowler proves to be a master of the “lean” but hence even more effective arrangement. Fowler not only surprises by using exotic instruments like the mandocello or charango, but he also manages to summon an intense, chamber music like atmosphere - take the quartet of guitar, viola da gamba, violin and accordion in track 12 as an example of what makes it such a fascinating experience to listen to “Portrait”.

PRESS REVIEWS
„...eine wunderbar meditative, impressionistische Stimmung." (Gitarre und Bass, 4/00)
„...a wonderful, meditative, impressionistic mood.“ (Gitarre und Bass, 4/00)
„In kammermusikalischer Besetzung sowie solistisch formt der walisische Gitarrist und Multiinstrumentalist seine keltischen Wurzeln, südamerikanische, arabische und Jazz-Einflüße in sparsamen Arrangements zu Weltmusikklangbildern.“ (Folker, 3/00)
„This Welsh guitarist and multi-instrumentalist uses chamber music and solo orchestrations to shape his Celtic roots and South American, Arabic and jazz influences in sparing arrangements to sound images of world music.” (Folker, 3/00)

FFYNNON OFOR

acoustic guitar and with ensemble
Recording: 2002
Time: 50:06
Musicians
Dylan Fowler:
guitars, percussion, clarinet
Guests: Gillian Stevens: crwth

CD-TRACKS

ANOTHER SONGLINE

· SEREN O’R GOGLEDD DIFYRWCH GWYR Y GOGLEDD CONSET ARGLYWDDES TREFAIL

· MY SONG

· JOY

· SPERED HOLDIVEL TAITH MADOG

· SANDENSKA ORO

· GULA GULA

· ZED

· ALBATROSS

· YM MHONTYPRIDD MAE FYNG

· FYNNON OFOR