Gwenno

Utopia (Remixes)

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Having released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, &#39;Utopia&#39; is Gwenno Saunders’ first album recorded predominantly in English, and presents a very different side to her life and songwriting.

Forty-three years into her life, Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long before she would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in both Welsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, a nominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, there were the days of Nevada, London, Brighton; of Irish dancing, techno clubs, messiness and chaos.

&#39;Utopia&#39;, Saunders’ fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves. If the singer regards her first three solo records — 2014’s Y Dydd Olaf, 2018’s Le Kov and 2022’s Tresor as “childhood records”, rooted in her upbringing, her parents, her formative identity, then Utopia captures a time of self-determination and experimentation. These are songs of discovery, of the years between being someone’s daughter and becoming someone’s wife and someone’s mother. They range from floor-fillers to piano ballads, via contributions from Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline, and encompass William Blake, a favourite Edrica Huws poem, and the Number 73 bus. It is her finest work to date.

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'Utopia' is the brand new single from Gwenno's new album 'Utopia.'
'Utopia' is released on July 11th, 2025.

Listen to 'Utopia' - https://ffm.to/gwenno-utopia
Pre-order 'Utopia' - https://ffm.to/gwenno-utopia 
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- Song credits -

Publisher: Blue Raincoat
Composer: Gwenno Saunders & Rhys Edwards
Lyricist: Gwenno Saunders
Producer: Rhys Edwards
Mixer: Llŷr Pari
Mastering: Matt Colton

Gwenno Saunders - Vocals  
Rhys Edwards - Electric Guitar, Piano, Shakers, Tambourine, Synthesizers, Strings, Mellotron
Tad Davies - Bass
Llŷr Pari - Drums


Video credits:
Directed by Gwenno & Clare Marie Bailey
Cinematography by Clare Marie Bailey
Edited by Gwenno
Production Designer/MUA Gwenno

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Lyrics - 

Eyes bright sunbeams on the wire
I knew a dealer, he’s still on my mind
Hotels tumbling down makes me miss the view
The sun’s no substitute for the grey sky

It’s tough loving Elvis when there are so many of them
We’ll run down the strip all the way to

Utopia, utopia
Utopia, utopia

Angel cake and staying up too late
You’re just a man, boy, working in valet
Seventeen with dreams counting every crumb
Desperate to disappear and still be someone

It’s tough loving Elvis when there are so many of you
We’ll run down the strip all the way to

Utopia, utopia
Utopia, utopia

Sometimes I miss everyone I’ve ever known
The cities that have shaped me all have their own melody

Utopia, utopia
Utopia, utopia

GWENNO - UTOPIA

'Y Gath'  (ft. Cate Le Bon and H.Hawkline) is the brand new single from Gwenno's new album 'Utopia.'
'Utopia' is released on July 11th, 2025.

Listen to 'Y Gath': https://ffm.to/gwenno-ygath
Pre-order 'Utopia' - https://ffm.to/gwenno-utopia 
Sign-up to Gwenno's mailing list - https://www.gwenno.info/subscribe 

Having released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, 'Utopia' is Gwenno Saunders’ first album recorded predominantly in English, and presents a very different side to her life and songwriting.

Forty-three years into her life, Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long before she would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in both Welsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, a nominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, there were the days of Nevada, London, Brighton; of Irish dancing, techno clubs, messiness and chaos.

'Utopia', Saunders’ fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves. If the singer regards her first three solo records — 2014’s Y Dydd Olaf, 2018’s Le Kov and 2022’s Tresor as “childhood records”, rooted in her upbringing, her parents, her formative identity, then Utopia captures a time of self-determination and experimentation. These are songs of discovery, of the years between being someone’s daughter and becoming someone’s wife and someone’s mother. They range from floor-fillers to piano ballads, via contributions from Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline, and encompass William Blake, a favourite Edrica Huws poem, and the Number 73 bus. It is her finest work to date.

Song credits -

Publisher: Blue Raincoat
Composer: Gwenno Saunders & Rhys Edwards
Lyricist: Gwenno Saunders
Producer: Rhys Edwards
Mixer: Llŷr Pari
Mastering: Matt Colton

Gwenno Saunders - Vocals, synth
Rhys Edwards - Piano, Synthesizers, Shakers, Tambourine, Nylon Guitars, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Tad Davies - Bass
Llŷr Pari - Drums
Cate Timothy / Cate Le Bon - Backing Vocals
Huw Gwynfryn Evans - Backing Vocals

Video credits:
Directed by Gwenno and Clare Marie Bailey
Cinematography - Clare Marie Bailey
Editor - Gwenno
Art Direction/MUA - Gwenno

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Lyrics -

Gallu y gath i ddringo
Muriau mawr dynolryw
Gallu y gath i ddringo
Muriau mawr dynolryw
Cuddio’r crafangau
Mursendod miniog
Yn barod i ymosod
Ar unrhyw adeg
Cuddio’r crafangau
Mursendod miniog
Yn barod i ymosod
Ar unrhyw adeg
Gallu y gath i ddringo
Muriau mawr dynolryw
Gallu y gath i ddringo
Muriau mawr dynolryw
Mae’r ddinas fawr, y ddinas fawr
Yn codi nawr o ddwst a baw
A’r adar yn canu’n groch yn groch
Wrth godi pîg i ddweud helo
Dy flew llwyd-oren brwnt
Se ti’n gweld dy adlewyrchiad
Se ti’n cadw draw am byth
Gallu y gath i ddringo
Muriau mawr dynolryw
Gallu y gath i ddringo
Muriau mawr dynolryw
Mae’r ddinas fawr, y ddinas fawr
Yn codi nawr o ddwst a baw
A’r adar yn canu’n groch yn groch
Wrth godi pîg i ddweud helo
Mae’r ddinas fawr, y ddinas fawr
Yn codi nawr o ddwst a baw
A’r adar yn canu’n groch yn groch
Wrth godi pîg i ddweud helo
The ability of the cat to climb
The great walls erected by man
The ability of the cat to climb
The great walls erected by man
Concealing your claws
A sharpened mischief
Ready to attack
At any moment
Concealing your claws
A sharpened mischief
Ready to attack
At any moment
The ability of the cat to climb
The great walls erected by man
The ability of the cat to climb
The great walls erected by man
The city, the city
Is rising now from the the dust and dirt
And the birds screech, they screech
Whilst raising their beaks to say hello
Your grubby grey-orange fur
If you saw your reflection
You’d keep away forever
The ability of the cat to climb
The great walls erected by man
The ability of the cat to climb
The great walls erected by man
The city, the city
Is rising now from the the dust and dirt
And the birds screech, they screech
Whilst raising their beaks to say hello
The city, the city
Is rising now from the the dust and dirt
And the birds screech, they screech
Whilst raising their beaks to say hello

GWENNO - Y GATH

'War'  is the brand new single from Gwenno's new album 'Utopia.'
'Utopia' is released on July 11th, 2025.


Listen to 'Dancing on Volcanoes' - https://ffm.to/gwenno-dancingonvolcanoes 
Pre-order 'Utopia' - https://ffm.to/gwenno-utopia 
Sign-up to Gwenno's mailing list - https://www.gwenno.info/subscribe 

Having released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, 'Utopia' is Gwenno Saunders’ first album recorded predominantly in English, and presents a very different side to her life and songwriting.

Forty-three years into her life, Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long before she would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in both Welsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, a nominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, there were the days of Nevada, London, Brighton; of Irish dancing, techno clubs, messiness and chaos.

'Utopia', Saunders’ fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves. If the singer regards her first three solo records — 2014’s Y Dydd Olaf, 2018’s Le Kov and 2022’s Tresor as “childhood records”, rooted in her upbringing, her parents, her formative identity, then Utopia captures a time of self-determination and experimentation. These are songs of discovery, of the years between being someone’s daughter and becoming someone’s wife and someone’s mother. They range from floor-fillers to piano ballads, via contributions from Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline, and encompass William Blake, a favourite Edrica Huws poem, and the Number 73 bus. It is her finest work to date.

- Song credits -
Publisher: Blue Raincoat
Composer: Gwenno Saunders
Lyricist: Edrica Huws
Producer: Rhys Edwards
Mixer: Llŷr Pari
Mastering: Matt Colton

Gwenno Saunders: Vocal, Synthesizers
Rhys Edwards: Piano, Synthesizers, Strings, Shakers, Electric Guitar, Sound Design
Tad Davies: Bass
Llŷr Pari: Drums
Nico Rhys: Additional Vocals
Ilow Morwenna Rhys: Heartbeat

Video Credits:
Directed by Gwenno and Clare Marie Bailey
Cinematography - Clare Marie Bailey
Editor - Gwenno
Art Direction/MUA - Gwenno

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-Lyrics-

Did you live thus before the War
Through Peace’s infancy, who came of age 
To die? My homing pigeons in their cage
Peck at the wicker door,
Strut, quiver their wings. Go fly my dove,
Who never dallied yet,
Through fogs of forty years to lawns where summer set
And children watched the dove-cote shadows move
Before the war, before.

Give us the other years of peace 
When red and black fought square by square and all
The narrow allies crackled and the dale
Here rained black manna. Grace
Hid in the bottom drawer. There was no more.
All else is what was lost
And sought by us in anguish, sought with guilty haste
In vain. That we were waiting for the war
Was written on our face.
Desperate indeed, pre-damned by the event
You took the cards and gambled on the red?
We gathered up the cards as you have said
And while the armies went 
Rumbling by, we played at vingt-et-un
Judge if you like, but we
Wept for a cardboard king. I find it hard to see
Now to what cryptic plan the cards refer
Or what the stakes then meant.

Did you live thus before the War. 
Through peace’s infancy?
Infants
Infants
Infants
Infants

GWENNO - WAR

'Dancing On Volcanoes'  is the brand new single from Gwenno's new album 'Utopia.'
'Utopia' is released on July 11th, 2025.

Listen to 'Dancing on Volcanoes' - https://ffm.to/gwenno-dancingonvolcanoes 
Pre-order 'Utopia' - https://ffm.to/gwenno-utopia 
Sign-up to Gwenno's mailing list - https://www.gwenno.info/subscribe 

Having released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, 'Utopia' is Gwenno Saunders’ first album recorded predominantly in English, and presents a very different side to her life and songwriting.

Forty-three years into her life, Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long before she would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in both Welsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, a nominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, there were the days of Nevada, London, Brighton; of Irish dancing, techno clubs, messiness and chaos.

'Utopia', Saunders’ fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves. If the singer regards her first three solo records — 2014’s Y Dydd Olaf, 2018’s Le Kov and 2022’s Tresor as “childhood records”, rooted in her upbringing, her parents, her formative identity, then Utopia captures a time of self-determination and experimentation. These are songs of discovery, of the years between being someone’s daughter and becoming someone’s wife and someone’s mother. They range from floor-fillers to piano ballads, via contributions from Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline, and encompass William Blake, a favourite Edrica Huws poem, and the Number 73 bus. It is her finest work to date.

- Song credits -

Publisher: Blue Raincoat
Composer: Gwenno Saunders & Rhys Edwards
Lyricist: Gwenno Saunders
Producer: Rhys Edwards
Mixer: Llŷr Pari
Mastering: Matt Colton

Gwenno Saunders - Vocals  
Rhys Edwards - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Shakers, Tambourine, Mellotron, Synthesizers
Tad Davies - Bass
Llŷr Pari - Drums
Randy Michael - Backing Vocals

Video credits:
Directed by Gwenno and Clare Marie Bailey
Cinematography - Clare Marie Bailey
Editor - Gwenno
Art Direction/MUA - Gwenno

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- Lyrics -

You’ll ask me for a cigarette
But we don’t go out anymore
Who becomes your Mother?
And who becomes your Father?
The dictators are dictating  
We’ll keep dancing on volcanoes

Has it changed beyond measure?
Have all the foundations gone?
Have we found a new clever?
Are we all here because of trauma?
Did we all lose something somewhere?
Do you remember when you were nine or ten
When everything shattered?

You’ll ask me for a cigarette
But we don’t go out anymore
Who becomes your Mother?
And who becomes your Father?
The dictators are dictating  
We’ll keep dancing on volcanoes

And I was never any good at being young
You lose and you win some
She came in from the West
Whatever that means
The grit of time got stuck
Between my teeth

You’ll ask me for a cigarette
But we don’t go out anymore
Who becomes your Mother?
And who becomes your Father?
The dictators are dictating  
We’ll keep dancing on volcanoes
Are we all here because of trauma?
Did we all lose something somewhere?
Do you remember when you were nine or ten
When everything shattered?
You’ll ask me for a cigarette
But we don’t go out anymore
Who becomes your Mother?
And who becomes your Father?
You’ll ask me for a cigarette
But we don’t go out anymore
Who becomes your Mother?
And who becomes your Father?
The dictators are dictating  
We’ll keep dancing on volcanoes

GWENNO - DANCING ON VOLCANOES

Ardamm (Symbolism)

'N.Y.C.A.W' is taken from Gwenno's album Tresor out now via Heavenly Recordings/PIAS.

Listen to the single here - https://ffm.to/nycaw
Purchase 'Tresor' - https://ffm.to/g-tresor

Song Credits
Written & performed by Gwenno
Produced & performed by Rhys Edwards

Director - Steve Glashier
Edit by Sedger

Lyrics

Unigolion oll
Ga i eich sylw os gwelwch yn dda? Chi yn y blaen, chi yn y cefn
Chi ar y chwith, chi ar y dde
A chwi oll yn y canol
Beth yw ein polisi ar gyfer pleser?
Gawn ni derfyn ar drafod ein holl ddiffygion
A chymryd mantais ar y cyfle i gofleidio ein cyd-ddyn?
Nid yw Cymru ar werth, nid yw Cymru ar werth, nid yw Cymru ar werth x2
Penderfyniadau pwyllgorau pwyllog
Sy'n atgyfnerthu goruchafiaeth ffiadd y farchnad
Sy'n rhydd i wneud be' a fynno
Brandi a coke i fynd gyda dy frand di?
Fi 'di blino ar fod yn flin
Â'r unigolyddiaeth ddi-chwaeth
Sy'n creu problem mâs o'r gwahaniaeth
Y gwahaniaeth gogoneddus sydd i'w ddathlu ym mhob man
Yr haenau'n cynyddu wrth i ni fynd yn ein blaenau
A'r oll y'n ni 'gyd eisiau gwbod yn sicr
Yr unig beth sy'n bwysig
Yw cariad
Nid yw Cymru ar werth, nid yw Cymru ar werth, nid yw Cymru ar werth x2

____

Individuals all
Can I have your attention please?
You at the front, you at the back
You on the left, you on the right
All of you in the middle
What is our policy regarding pleasure? Can we stop all of these discussion about our failings?
And take advantage of being able to embrace one another?

Wales is not for sale, Wales is not for sale, Wales is not for sale x2

The decisions made by cautious committees reinforces the dominance of the vulgar market which is free to do what it wants.

A brandy and coke to go with your branding? I'm fed up of feeling angry
And the indecorous individualism
Which creates a problem out of the difference The glorious difference to be celebrated everywhere The layers increase as we keep going on
And the only thing we want to know, the only thing that really matters is love

Wales is not for sale, Wales is not for sale, Wales is not for sale x2

GWENNO -  N.Y.C.A.W.

'Anima' from the album Tresor

'Tresor' is out now via Heavenly Recordings/PIAS.

Listen to the single here - https://ffm.to/gwenno-anima
Pre-order 'Tresor' - https://ffm.to/g-tresor

Animation by Tad Davies

Song Credits:
Written by Gwenno
Performed by Gwenno & Rhys Edwards
Produced by Rhys Edwards
Mastered by Matt Colton

ANIMA
Holya margh du
Bys yn inyaldir
Alghwedh owr 
Paradis

Krogen war dreth
Dywes po Eva
Ow sevel a'th rag
Paradis

Anima, anima, anima...

Pel Gwener
Peulvan a dan
Tregh Benen
Paradis

Palas dre dhor
Bys yn amal kleger
Gwel an mor evan
Paradis

Anima, anima, anima...

Duw bow
Duw yeth 
Duw gorv



ANIMA
Chasing a black horse 
into the desert 
A golden key
Paradise
A shell on a beach
Is it a Goddess or Eve
stood in front of you?
Paradise 

Anima, Anima, Anima... 
The sphere of Venus 
Ball of fire
A woman's torso 
Paradise 

Digging through the Earth 
Into the edge of a cliff
A view of the wide open sea 
Paradise 

Anima, Anima, Anima... 
Two languages
Two countries
Two bodies

GWENNO - ANIMA  (Animation)

'Tresor' out now via Heavenly Recordings/PIAS.

Listen to the single here - https://ffm.to/gwenno-tresor
Pre-order 'Tresor' - https://ffm.to/g-tresor

Song Credits
Written & performed by Gwenno
Produced & performed by Rhys Edwards

Film
Directed, edited & produced by Gwenno
Shot by Gwenno
8mm footage DOP Clare Marie Bailey
Anima - Edward Rowe
Animus - Pinar Ögün
Art direction Gwenno
Headdresses - Lally MacBeth
Clay figurines - Zenna Tagney
Tehidy Woods shoot:
Props master - Joe Gray
Chief Lighting Technician - Joe Crooks
Assistant Lighting Technician (Tehidy Woods) - Joseph Husband
Production Coordinator (Tehidy Woods) - Ella Turner 
Runner (Tehidy Woods) - Jamie Doughty
Runner (Tehidy Woods) - Alex Fish

Lyrics
A eus hwans dhis a gurun war dha benn
ha benyn ryb dha dhiwdroes?
A eus hwans dhymm a lenwel stevell
gans ow nell hag omglywes meth?

Res koedha yn-nans 
Rag sevel arta, sevel arta
Tava, tewi tan
Kesvewa glan
Tresor

Mantol bewnans, bewa marow
Kehaval ha garow
Esya 'vydh dhymm pub tro
Kepar ha men ow trehevel fos

Res koedha yn-nans 
Rag sevel arta, sevel arta
Tava, tewi tan
Kesvywa glan
Tresor


Treasure
Do you want a crown upon your head 
and a woman at your feet?
Do I want to fill a room
with all of my will and feel ashamed? 

You've got to fall 
To rise again, rise again 
Touching
Extinguishing a flame
A Treasure

The scales of life, to live and to die 
Are both equal and rough
It gets easier every time 
Like rocks building a wall
 
You've got to fall 
To rise again, rise again 
Touching
Extinguishing a flame
A Treasure

GWENNO - TRESOR

'Men an Toll' from the album 'Tresor' via Heavenly/PIAS

Listen to 'Men an Toll' - https://ffm.to/menantoll
Pre-order 'Tresor' - https://ffm.to/g-tresor

Song Credits
Written & Produced by Gwenno
Mixed by Rhys Edwards
Mastered by Matt Colton

Film Credits
Director & Art Direction by Gwenno
Cinematography by Clare Marie Bailey
Edited by Gwenno

Lyrics
It’s obvious that I’m unable to escape from this.

GWENNO - MEN AN TOLL

'An Stevel Nowydh' from the album 'Tresor' via Heavenly/PIAS

Listen to 'An Stvel Nowydh' - https://ffm.to/g-asn
Pre-order 'Tresor' - https://ffm.to/g-tresor

Song Credits
An Stevel Nowydh
Written & performed by Gwenno Saunders & Rhys Edwards
Produced & mixed by Rhys Edwards
Mastered by Matt Colton

Film Credits
Written & Directed by Gwenno Saunders
Assistant Director & Cinematography by Clare Marie Bailey
Edited & Processed by Joan Pope
Styling by Gwenno Saunders
Assistant Stylist - Clare Marie Bailey
Headdress by Lally MacBeth
Set design by Lois Prys
Performed by Gwenno Saunders & Eddie Ladd.

Lyrics

An Stevel Nowydh
Dynargh dhis, esedh yn-nans - a eus hwans dhis a nafas?
Fatel a-genes? 
Daras igerys
Skeus howl an gwav war leur lowarth

Dynargh dhis, esedh yn-nans - a eus hwans dhis a nafas?
Fatel a-genes? 
Daras igerys
Skeus howl an gwav war leur lowarth
Awel dre'n fenestr
Ha mi, ha mi, ha mi, ha mi, 
war ben ow honan

A yw'r gwacter ystyr yn rhan anochel o fod yn fyw?
A yw'r gwacter ystyr yn rhan anochel o fod yn fyw?
A yw'r gwacter ystyr yn rhan anochel o fod yn fyw?
A yw'r gwacter ystyr yn rhan anochel o fod yn fyw?

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The New Room
Welcome, sit down - fancy a cuppa? 
How are you?
The door is open 
and the shadow of the afternoon hits the garden floor 

Welcome, sit down - fancy a cuppa? 
How are you?
The door is open 
and the shadow of the afternoon hits the garden floor 
a breeze through the window
and I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, 
all alone. 

Is the total lack of meaning an inevitable part of being? 
Is the total lack of meaning an inevitable part of being?
Is the total lack of meaning an inevitable part of being?
Is the total lack of meaning an inevitable part of being?

Gwenno

Utopia

Tresor

Le Kov

Y Dydd Olaf

Utopia (Remixes)

Morwreg (Gwenno Remix)

Utopia (Cornelius Remix)

Utopia

Y Gath

War

Dancing On Volcanoes

Golden Air (Gwenno Remix)

Heol Fanog

N.Y.C.A.W. (the lonely summer mix by JDBRADFIELD)

Lifeblood 20

Acoustic

Electronica

I Had A Baby Not A Lobotomy

This Is Gwenno

Gwenno Radio

Sex Education Official Playlist

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