Hen Ogledd is Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies and Richard Dawson.

Originally formed as DAWSON-DAVIES: HEN OGLEDD by avant folk savant Richard Dawson and improvised harp pioneer Rhodri Davies, they’ve dropped the surnames and become a trio with the addition of Dawn Bothwell, who also performs altered electronic torch songs as Pentecostal Party.

It’s been a transformative move, Dawson playing guitar, iPad and a panoply of tabletop knickknacks, Davies cleaving new spaces open with his blazing harp splutterations, with Bothwell’s sweet and sour voice and electronics taking the three of them down unexplored avenues littered with hypnotic diversions and long moments of delirium.