Fflach is a Welsh Record Label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 and Recording Studio. It was founded in 1981 in Cardigan, Ceredigion

Cardigan, Ceredigion

Cardigan is a town in the county of Ceredigion in Mid Wales. It lies on the estuary of the River Teifi at the point where Ceredigion meets Pembrokeshire. It was the county town of the pre-1974 county of Cardiganshire. It is the second largest town in Ceredigion. The town's population was 4,203...

, Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 by brothers Richard and Wyn Jones who are members of Welsh New Wave music

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

 group Ail Symudiad. The label gave an opportunity to record more New Wave music in Wales, for bands such as Y Ficar, Eryr Wen, Malcolm Neon, Angylion Stanley, Y Diawled, Rocyn and Maffia Mr. Huws.

Fflach has two subsidiary labels: Rasp, formed in 2000, which records and releases music by new, young Rock and Pop bands; and fflach:tradd, formed in 1997, which records and releases traditional music, specialising in indigenous musical instruments such as triple harp

Triple Harp

The triple harp, often referred to as the Welsh triple harp , is a type of harp employing three rows of strings instead of the more common single row...

, crwth

Crwth

The crwth is an archaic stringed musical instrument, associated particularly with Welsh music, once widely-played in Europe.-Origin of the name:...

, pibgorn

Pibgorn (instrument)

The pibgorn is a Welsh species of idioglot reed aerophone. The name translates literally as "pipe-horn". It is also historically known as cornicyll. It utilises a single reed , cut from elder or reed , like that found in the drone of a bagpipe, being the ancestor of the modern clarinet reed...

 and Welsh bagpipes gaining the label an internationally respected reputation.

Subsidiary labels

• Fflach – Main label
• Rasp – Rock and pop label
• fflach:tradd – Traditional Welsh music, world music, and jazz

Some Artists

On Fflach

• Ail Symudiad
• Dom
  Dom
  - People :* Dom people, an ethnic group in the Middle East* Doms, people of indigenous origin found in the Indian state of West Bengal* Domba or Dom, an ethnic group of India...
  
  
• Malcolm Neon

On Rasp

• Mattoidz
• Lowri Evans
• Garej Dolwen

On fflach:tradd

• Llio Rhydderch
• Julie Murphy
  Julie Murphy
  Julie Murphy is a singer who sings in Welsh and English. She sings in the Welsh band Fernhill, as well as performing and recording as a solo artist.She has also collaborated musically with John Cale , and Afro Celt Sound System .-Biography:Murphy was born in Highgate, London,...
  
   and Dylan Fowler
• Ceri Rhys Matthews
  Ceri Rhys Matthews
  Ceri Rhys Matthews is a Welsh traditional musician, record producer, and teacher.-Biography:Matthews was born in Swansea, Wales...
  
  
• Cass Meurig
• Sild