Name: Le Kov
Brand: Gwenno

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

hvnlp145cd

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Digipack.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-03-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

HVNLP145

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5414940003796

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

hvnlp145c

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blue

Extended format: Yes

Light Blue Coloured Vinyl with Download.

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Gwenno

Genre GB

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label GB

Heavenly Recordings

Written entirely in Cornish, Le Kov is exploration of the subconscious, the myths and drolls of Cornwall, and the survival of Britain’s lesser known Brythonic language. As one of the language’s few fluent speakers, Gwenno felt a duty to create a document of a living language, explore her identity and the endless creative possibilities of a tongue that has a very small surviving artistic output. She dove deep into research, learning about attempts to protect and progress the language and the role of women throughout Cornish history.

Evoking the music of her childhood – Brenda Wootton, Alan Stivell, BUCCA – along with Broadcast, The United States of America, White Noise and Serge Gainsbourg, Le Kov is shimmering and tarnished, rust mingled with barnacles, moss entwined with weathered rope.

LP - Light Blue Coloured Vinyl with Download.

VIDEO PREMIERE: Le Kov, a landscape...

Rough Trade are delighted to premiere this very special short film from Gwenno, exploring her album 'Le Kov' out now on Heavenly Recordings and a former Rough Trade Albums of the Month for March 2018.

"Here's a contemporary visual document exploring what truth and myth is, what Le Kov is about - where we're at, and how we got here. A collaboration between Steve Glashier and I, exploring landscape and a sense of place. A postcard of the now that may one day be forgotten, so let's enjoy the moment before it disappears." Gwenno