Welsh-language electronica project
Prosiect electronica Cymraeg
About Us
CHWALAW is an electronica project FORMED BY Welsh singer-songwriter Efa Supertramp and CARDIFF-based producer Nick Ronin.
It started with ‘Diflanu’, a remote-collaboration Welsh-language electronica single released in August 2021 with harp and additional composition by Welsh musician Cerys Hafana. The single was voted number 4 on Siart Amgen (alternative chart) 2021 BBC Radio Cymru (Wales).
Chwalaw then embarked on a recording project with musicians in Germany who speak the minority-language Sorbian. Find out more about this project on our Blog page. This manifested as two songwriting residencies and gigs in the Sorbian region. The project birthed a single and music video for Dim Arwyr (No Heroes) that features Welsh-language rap-vocals from Izzy Rabey, harp from Cerys Hafana and violin from Berlin-based Paul Geigerzähler.
Amidst further collaborations that build towards a full album, a project for Tŷ Cerdd saw four new songs being produced in early 2026 with regular collaborators Cerys and Izzy along with Palestinian oud player Salih Hassan. With most of the team now resident in Splott, east Cardiff, the entire EP was recorded and mixed in the area and fuses Welsh triple-harp with oud and strains of hip-hop and electronica. The initial release is via Bandcamp but with most major streaming platforms coming shortly after. It’s already garnered radio play on BBC Radio Wales.
READ MORE ABOUT OUR PROJECTS ON OUR BLOG
releases
All our music is now on OUR BANDCAMP PAGE!
y goriad – 4 track ep FEATURING IZZY RABEY, CERYS HAFANA + OUD RESISTS
“Typically genre-melting, uncompromising, defiant, uncategorisable”
Adam Walton – BBC Radio Wales
OUT NOW ON BANDCAMP
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.