{"id":17663,"date":"2013-10-22T21:06:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T21:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=17663"},"modified":"2017-10-24T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:55:37","slug":"raider-of-the-lost-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/raider-of-the-lost-harp","title":{"rendered":"Raider of the Lost Harp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Conformist Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.conformistmusic.co.uk\/\">Conformist<\/a> is an experimental musician who digs up sounds of 300-year-old Welsh instruments from the musical compost heap.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Conformist_Big_WM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Conformist_Big_WM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Conformist_Big_WM.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also known as Mike Simmons, Conformist is using ancient Welsh instruments to fuel his forthcoming, currently nameless, second album. It will include a Welsh triple harp, a Welsh flute and a pibgorn \u2013 a 300-year-old woodwind instrument made from bullhorn.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t stop here. \u201cIf my ambitions aren\u2019t too excessive I would love to feature a full Welsh Male voice choir\u201d, says Conformist.<\/p>\n<p>Conformist\u2019s music feeds from a seam of harmony located between convention and chaos. Using archaic cut and paste techniques, his 2012 debut album, Paid to Fake It, created a mackerel skin of frequencies by compressing sound from television, throaty pornos, tambourines and whistles.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mIm5A6zjZTA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conformist is an experimental musician who digs up sounds of 300-year-old Welsh instruments from the musical compost heap. \u00a0 Also known as Mike Simmons, Conformist is using ancient Welsh instruments to fuel his forthcoming, currently nameless, second album. 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