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Tincian is 9Bach's second album. It's an atmospheric, emotional record that reflects their home environment of Gerlan, North Wales. As Lisa Jen explains, 'Tincian can mean a lot of things, to move with a tinkling sound, to ring and make a clear sound. Depending on what area of Wales you are from, the meaning varies. It comes to life in dialogue when you use sentences like I gave him such a talking to, he didn't know what had hit him...he was 'tincian'. It's almost like a cartoon image of someone's head being hit by a hammer'.
Tincian can also mean 'To resonate... it's like the bell of your memories, the sound in your mind that awakens to things forgotten. It would have also been used in sentences like ma na rhyw dincian ymhlith y bobol . ( There is a murmur amongst the people ). That kind of whisper, that fear or excitement of a (bad) report amongst the people like a wave of noise.
The songs on the album are all stories: some of them autobiographical, some are other people's true stories and others imaginary. There are stories of the quarry men, of strong and brave women, of lost children, of foxes feasting near blood stained streams in areas of natural beauty, of forgotten derelict houses, of nature, of slate, of red dust, of family and of 'cariad' which means love. Sometimes there is pain, sometimes anger, a harshness that rings a heavy sound. But there is also a beauty and serenity, a light and gentle sound that resonates much further - TINCIAN.
9Bach aim to take the experience and the culture of North Wales out to a wider audience. Tincian is worked from the mountainous, mining landscape of Gerlan and Bethesda: the harshness and the beauty, its ever-changing moods and the solidarity of the people who live there.