Demos for Patrons
Here are 10 tracks that use Kernewek, which are ready to perform and take to a band to arrange. There are lots more song ideas in the pipeline, but as this project has been to create 10 tracks I’m sharing the most finished 10 at this stage.
1. Ankevi a Wrug / I Forgot - a song about the pursuit of happiness.
2. Ow Thenkys y Hwortav / I await my fate - based on the old Cornish superstition that if an unmarried woman stands the porch of the village church on midsummers eve she will see walking by everyone who will pass into the next life from the parish that year.
This next set of demos are fully original works, with a simple voice-note recording to exemplify the sound and structure.
3. Deray Teg / Beautiful Mess - about whirlwind journeys of spontaneous beginnings and unexpected endings and all the beautiful chaos in between.
4. An Myghtern han Dew / The King and the God - based on a socratic tale of a god coming to visit a king to gift ‘the best art form’ of writing, but the king declining because the beauty in song, dance, art cannot be written down.
5. Hungan Sul / Sunday Lullaby - a song about missing someone far away and the potential you can feel that exists between your two separate worlds.
6. Mildir Morgowr / Morgowr Mile, based on a stretch of sea where a monster is said to have been sighted out to sea over many years near to Falmouth.
This final few songs are existing works that have been revisited to work within a set of Kernewek songs.
7. Yn Wedhek / In The Woodland - a song written for a special woodland where may people find themselves and their new path. The chorus sings ‘Yn Wedhek’ to refer to any forest (rather than a specific one in the original song I wrote) to reflect the healing powers of nature.
8. Gog ha Gwennel / Cuckoo and Swallow - based on the old belief that birds used to go into caves in the ground in winter, and written with Hireth (4 part vocal harmony group I am in), and then rearranged into a solo piece from our group arrangement.
9. Kernow ow Thre / Cornwall My Home - also rearranged from the Hireth version of the Harry Glasson anthem Cornwall My Home. This Cornish version if the only one on this list that is not my original, but I’m regularly playing it in my set and is a fav of mine.
10. Sen Martha / Saint Martha - This is one of the most popular songs I’ve ever written, so a version that starts in Kernewek feels very fitting.