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Welsh record label to digitise entire catalogue of 26,000 recordings

Sain, co-founded by singer Dafydd Iwan, begins painstaking process of preserving tracks to inspire future artists

For 55 years, the record label Sain, which is based in the north-west Wales village of Llandwrog, has been behind some of the most important Welsh-language music, promoting genres as diverse as pop, hip-hop, folk and classical. Collaborations and new recordings have been inspired by the project, including a deep dive into the Sain archive on a forthcoming new album by the Cardiff-based artist Don Leisure. Tacsi I’r Tywyllwch (Taxi Into Darkness) A 1977 early release from Geraint Jarman, who was described by the Super Furry Animals singer Gruff Rhys as “serving as a bridge to a new wave of post-punk Welsh-language artists in the 1980s and beyond who had a less self-conscious relationship with their Welsh identity”.

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