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In November, Welsh songwriter and instrumentalist Gareth Bonello, better known as The Gentle Good, announced his forthcoming new album ‘Elan’, scheduled for release in May 2025 via Bubblewrap Collective. The album, which was written in an off-grid cottage during a year-long residency in the Cambrian Mountains, is described as a psychedelic portrait of the Elan Valley in Powys, Wales, exploring the landscape, history, and politics of this remote valley, which was flooded to supply water for Birmingham at the end of the Victorian era.
The second single from the album, ‘Ten Thousand Acres’ is released today; an ode to the valley’s many expressions and a meditation on ownership and our perception of landscape throughout time.
“Mr Groves is a Wiltshire gentleman, who purchased ten thousand of these almost worthless acres a few years since, and is making a paradise of the wilderness… ”
Benjamin Malkin, 18031
Pre-Order Elan bit.ly/ElanPreOrder
Website: https://thegentlegood.com/
You may also like:
- Malkin, B.H., 1804. The Scenery, An8qui8es, and Biography, of South Wales: From Materials Collected During Two Excursions in the Year 1803. TN Longman and O. Rees. ↩︎
