Welsh-language electronica project
Prosiect electronica Cymraeg
About Us
CHWALAW is an electronica project FORMED BY Welsh singer-songwriter Efa Supertramp and London-based producer Nick Ronin.
It started with ‘Diflanu’, a collaborative Welsh-language electronica single released in August 2021 – that also featured harp and additional composition by mid-Wales based Cerys Hafana. The single was voted number 4 on Siart Amgen (alternative chart) 2021 BBC Radio Cymru (Wales).
Since then Chwalaw has started work on a recording project with musicians in Germany who speak the minority-language Sorbian. Find out more about this project on our Blog page.
As a development of this Arts Council Wales funded project we created a single and music video for the track Dim Arwyr (No Heroes) that features Welsh-language rap-vocals from Izzy Rabey, harp from Cerys Hafana and violin from Paul Geigerzähler.
READ MORE ABOUT OUR PROJECTS ON OUR BLOG
gigs
WE ARE BASED IN CARDIFF, WALES – MESSAGE US if you can offer us a gig
16.05.25 – Hoyerswerda, GERMANY
At the end of a second music-making residency in the Sorbian region of Gemany we performed a showcase concert
with our friends from Kollektiv Wakkum and other local musicians.
01.10.22 – CARDIFF, UK
For what is a welsh language project, we finally had our first gig in Wales – supporting NoGood Boyo in Cardiff.
7-11.09.22 – SORBIAN SPEAKING REGION OF GERMANY + BERLIN
As the continuation of our Arts Council Wales funded residency, we returned to the Sorbian speaking region of Germany for five nights of gigs, finishing up in Berlin.
30.04.22 – COTTBUS, GERMANY
22.04.22 – BERLIN, GERMANY
Whilst in Germany for our artist residency in the Sorbian region’s capital Cottbus, we played some more shows with our violinst Geigerzähler.
16.04.22 at Crux – in London, UK
As part of our new project (funded by Arts Council Wales) that fuses the sounds, ideas and artistry of contemporary Welsh and Sorbian language musicians we created some initial songs with virtuoso punk-violinist Paul Geigerzähler whilst we were temporarily living in Berlin. Paul joined us in London for the first ever live performance from Chwalaw.