Jump into the fog
Rhaeadr Fawr, or Aber Falls if you're English, is a waterfall in Gwynedd North Wales and drains the Carneddau mountain range. It is formed as the Afon Goch plunges 120 feet over the igneous bedrock and quite an impressive waterfall it is too; although sadly you obviously can't appreciate it's height in this shot.
Swimming is possible in the plunge pools and as I was there relatively early and with a positively balmy 4 degrees, I thought, well, why not. I'd just taken the top 5 layers off and was down to the fleece when along came 2 walkers, such a shame, so not wanting to make these good folk revisit their breakfast or indeed be charged with indecent exposure, I got back to the job in hand, that being recording more 'water, rocks and ****.
Now for the music. Don't get me wrong, I do like Ed Sheeran. he is a very talented young man but like a disapproving prude in a nudist colony, you can have a bit of over-exposure! But throw Andrea Bocelli in there, (that's into the music, not the nudist colony), then the result is quite magical.
Isn't the Italian language wonderful and expressive, even simple things sound much more stylish. For instance:
'Adoro pulire la lettiera dei gatti e avere le mie gambe cerate', just sounds delightful, whatever it might mean. I just wish I wasn't such a philistine and could speak it!
Bocelli has such a rich, soulful voice and as the legendary darts commentator Sid Waddell one said, 'the man with a voice like an angel lovingly tap dancing on your ear drums'.
In actual fact, I don't think Sid Waddell ever said that, possibly just another figment of my imagination, but if he were around today I would like to think that maybe he just might.
Darts, what a spectator sport! Actually it's not really a sport, more like hunter gatherer training for Borrowers!
Anyway, that's more than enough nonsense for one day and I hope you enjoy the track.
Jump into the fog
Rhaeadr Fawr, or Aber Falls if you're English, is a waterfall in Gwynedd North Wales and drains the Carneddau mountain range. It is formed as the Afon Goch plunges 120 feet over the igneous bedrock and quite an impressive waterfall it is too; although sadly you obviously can't appreciate it's height in this shot.
Swimming is possible in the plunge pools and as I was there relatively early and with a positively balmy 4 degrees, I thought, well, why not. I'd just taken the top 5 layers off and was down to the fleece when along came 2 walkers, such a shame, so not wanting to make these good folk revisit their breakfast or indeed be charged with indecent exposure, I got back to the job in hand, that being recording more 'water, rocks and ****.
Now for the music. Don't get me wrong, I do like Ed Sheeran. he is a very talented young man but like a disapproving prude in a nudist colony, you can have a bit of over-exposure! But throw Andrea Bocelli in there, (that's into the music, not the nudist colony), then the result is quite magical.
Isn't the Italian language wonderful and expressive, even simple things sound much more stylish. For instance:
'Adoro pulire la lettiera dei gatti e avere le mie gambe cerate', just sounds delightful, whatever it might mean. I just wish I wasn't such a philistine and could speak it!
Bocelli has such a rich, soulful voice and as the legendary darts commentator Sid Waddell one said, 'the man with a voice like an angel lovingly tap dancing on your ear drums'.
In actual fact, I don't think Sid Waddell ever said that, possibly just another figment of my imagination, but if he were around today I would like to think that maybe he just might.
Darts, what a spectator sport! Actually it's not really a sport, more like hunter gatherer training for Borrowers!
Anyway, that's more than enough nonsense for one day and I hope you enjoy the track.