Bill Ryder-Jones

This show, originally scheduled for 17 May, has been postponed to this new date, Saturday, 15 November.

Born in a coastal town between North Wales and Liverpool – a frequent inspiration for his work and where he has his studio – Bill Ryder-Jones has been known to us since 1996, when he founded the band The Coral. In 2011, he released his debut solo album on Domino, followed by a handful of releases that balanced orchestral albums with song-oriented records, in more intimate and personal registers.

His latest album, Iechyd Da – a Welsh expression for good health – is his most elaborate production to date and also his most hopeful and optimistic, despite the underlying melancholy in all the songs on the album, as if, in the musician’s life, agony and ecstasy were inseparable.

Throughout the 13 tracks that make up the album he is now presenting at Theatro Circo, we hear samples of Gal Costa, a children’s choir and Mick Head reciting James Joyce’s Ulysses.