Joan Bibiloni Featuring Rhys Ifans / Pep Tosar - Cofio Recorda Remembrance

Format: 12" Vinyl, Picture Sleeve, Printed Insert
Catalogue No.: NUNSWB001V
Barcode: 5060202596713
Release Date: 01 Mar 2024
Genre: Downtempo, Spoken Word, Balearica

A1: 'Badia Onírica' [Welsh Version]
A2: 'Badia Onírica' [English Version]
A3: 'Un Adéu' [Instrumental Version]
B1: 'Un Adéu' [Catalan Version]
B2: 'Un Adéu' [Spanish Version]
B3: 'Badia Onírica' [Instrumental Version]

DJ Support: Richard Dorfmeister, Luke Una, Chris Coco, Phil Mison, Mickey Brown, Erki Pruul, Marco

The sweeping poem ‘Cofio’ by the great Welsh poet Waldo Williams has inspired a remarkable collaboration between Ibiza-based record label NuNorthern Soul, Welsh DJ, performer and cultural commentator Gareth Potter, composer and musician Joan Bibiloni, poet and actor Pep Tosar Vaquer, actor Rhys Ifans and musician James Baron aka JIM / Ron Basejam.

1st March is St Davids Day and Balearic Day. St David’s Day honours the death of the patron saint of Wales and the Day of the Balearic Islands the day when islands Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca became an autonomous region of Spain.

Cofio Recorda Remembrance is made up of two powerful and haunting tracks drenched in NuNorthern Soul’s unique take on the globally popular Balearic Chillout style. Un Adéu features music by Joan remixed by James Baron with Pep reading the poem in Catalan and Spanish. Badia Onírica is a tremendously atmospheric reading of ‘Cofia’ in Welsh and English by Rhys with music again arranged by James.

It connects Wales and Ibiza but, on a more universal level, Cofio Recorda Remembrance links the fundamental aspects of human existence, of, as Waldo Williams puts it ‘earth’s innumerable generations’.

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