GWENNO
Tresor
HEAVENLY
9/10
“IF we opened people up, we’d find landscapes,” said the French director Agnes Varda in 2009. Varda is one of many artists, musicians and filmmakers from around the world who inspired Tresor, the third album by the Cornish-speaking Welsh psychonaut Gwenno Saunders – and that quote is particularly beloved to a musician dedicated to mapping out the intersection of land, heritage, identity and potential.
Like Gwenno’s last album, , is written mostly in Cornish – a language she learned as an infant from her father, the Cornish poet Tim Saunders; her socialist-choir-singing mother made sure she was equally imagined a cosmopolitan city of modern-day myth, raised from beneath the waves like the revived Cornish tongue itself; now journeys inward, into an inner life lived through Cornish.
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