When I Wake Up
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SERA
ABOUT/AMDAN
A pianist, guitar player and a singer-songwriter, SERA (Sera Zyborska) has been writing, recording and performing in both English and Welsh for a while. Over the last couple of years, SERA has spent time in the studio working and writing with producer Andi Crutwell-Jones, looking at the real stories she wanted to tell with a sound that matched her ambition. The result is a collection of songs inspired by anxiety, love, nostalgia, ancestry, witches, ships and lost worlds. It's all there.
Having grown up in Caernarfon, North Wales, a place steeped in history, culture, between the Snowdonia Mountains and the Irish sea, you could understand her love of folklore and how landscape is a big source of inspiration behind her music.
SERA was selected as a BBC Horizons artist for 2019-2020, and played a live session in the legendary BBC Maida Vale studios.
During this year SERA will also be releasing songs from her upcoming album, due in summer 2020. SERA is also a part of new Americana band TAPESTRI with Lowri Evans and folk duo EVE & SERA with Eve Goodman. She has a band in Cardiff as well as a function band in North Wales called SUSPECTS
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Mae'r pianydd, chwaraewr gitâr a chanwr-gyfansoddwr, SERA (Sera Zyborska) wedi bod yn ysgrifennu, recordio a pherfformio yn Saesneg a Chymraeg ers tro. Dros yr ychydig flynyddoedd diwethaf mae SERA wedi treulio amser yn y stiwdio yn gweithio ac yn ysgrifennu gyda'r cynhyrchydd Andi Crutwell-Jones, gan edrych ar y straeon yr oedd hi am eu hadrodd gyda'r sain a oedd yn cyfateb i'w huchelgais. Y canlyniad oedd casgliad o ganeuon a ysbrydolwyd gan bryder, cariad, hiraeth, achau, gwrachod, llongau a bydoedd coll. Mae'r cyfan yno.
Cafodd ei fagu yng Nghaernarfon, lle sy'n llawn hanes, diwylliant, rhwng Mynyddoedd Eryri a'r môr Iwerddon. Fe allech chi ddeall ei chariad at lên gwerin a sut mae tirwedd yn ffynhonnell ysbrydoliaeth y tu ôl i'w cherddoriaeth.
Dewiswyd SERA fel artist BBC Gorwelion ar gyfer 2019-2020, a chwaraeodd sesiwn fyw yn stiwdios chwedlonol BBC Maida Vale.
Yn ystod y flwyddyn hon bydd SERA hefyd yn rhyddhau caneuon o'i halbwm sydd i ddod yn haf 2020. Mae SERA hefyd yn rhan o'r band Americana newydd TAPESTRI gyda Lowri Evans a'r ddeuawd werin EVE & SERA gydag Eve Goodman. Mae ganddi band yng Nghaerdydd a hefyd band achlysurol yn y Gogledd o'r enw SUSPECTS.
2020
In 2020, 3 exciting musical projects will be launched for CEG Records artist, SERA.
Her album will be released in April 2020 followed by a mini tour with her band.
Her Welsh 'nature song' project with fellow CEG Records artist Eve Goodman will be first released in January with the single Gaeafgwsg (Hibernate) with an EP on the way at Easter.
And her female-fronted band Americana / Roots band with Pembrokeshire singer-songwriter Lowri Evans launches at Galeri Caernarfon on February 9th, and they have jam-packed year ahead of gigs and recording.
Stay tuned!
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Yn 2020 bydd 3 phrosiect cerddorol cyffrous yn cael ei lansio gan artist CEG Records, SERA.
Bydd ei halbwm yn cael ei ryddhau ym mis Ebrill 2020 ac yna taith fach gyda'i band.
Mae ei phrosiect Cymraeg 'caneuon natur' gyda chyd-artist CEG Records, Eve Goodman, yn cael ei ryddhau ym mis Ionawr gyda'r sengl, Gaeafgwsg, a bydd yr EP ar y ffordd adeg y Pasg.
Ac mae ei band Americana / Roots gyda’r gantores-gyfansoddwr o Sir Benfro, Lowri Evans, yn lansio yn Galeri Caernarfon ar Chwefror 9fed ac mae ganddynt flwyddyn orlawn o'i blaenau gyda gigs a recordio.
The brand new album by SERA is out on CD July 31st (pre-orders from July 17th) and on digital and streaming platforms from August 14th. The album is a collection of 11 tracks, all inspired by folklore. This album takes a little bit of folk, Americana, singer-songwriter and pop and mixes it in a musical cauldron!
New Album / Album Newydd
2019 single - y gost/cysgod y gell
CEG Records presents 2 new tracks by SERA, the first in a series of releases planned for 2019. Y Gost is a haunting performance blending alternative folk, classical and pop influences, while Cysgod y Gell has more of a folk/Americana vibe, reciting the story of her grandfather, a Polish prisoner of war who settled in Wales. Produced by Andi Bonsai, featuring the violin of Nico Crutwell-Jones.
Mae CEG Records yn cyflwyno 2 drac newydd gan SERA, y cyntaf mewn cyfres a gynlluniwyd ar gyfer 2019. Mae Y Gost yn berfformiad syfrdanol sy'n cyfuno dylanwadau gwerin, clasurol a pop, tra bod Cysgod y Gell gyda mwy o naws gwerin/Americana, gan adrodd stori ei thaid, carcharor rhyfel o'r Wlad Pwyl a ymgartrefodd yng Nghymru. Cynhyrchwyd gan Andi Bonsai, yn cynnwys ffidil gan Nico Crutwell-Jones.
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2019 Gigs:
March 29th - Pie Records, Rhos on Sea.
May 10th - Ty Glyndwr, Caernarfon
May 18 - Focus Wales, Wrecsam. 7pm
May 23 - Gwyl Beaumaris Festival, 3pm
June 21 - Catch 22, Ynys Mon
August 31 - Between the Trees Festival, Merthyr Mawr.
September 20 - Catch 22, Ynys Mon
September 28 Clwb y Bont, Pontypridd