Separado! Gruff Rhys ac y gaucho cymraeg

I finally saw this film today. I’d wanted to see it since I’d heard of its exist­ence, but not got round to it, but it was defin­itely worth the wait. Gruff Rhys from the Super Furry Anim­als saw a sing­er on Welsh tv in the 70s who used to go onstage wear­ing a poncho and riding a horse, and then sing flamenco and samba songs in Welsh with an Argen­tini­an accent, and he was spell­bound. His grand­moth­er told him it was René Grif­fiths, a distant uncle of his from South Amer­ica. An ancest­or of his in the 1800s joined the Welsh colony in Patago­nia after acci­dent­ally killing his cous­in in a rigged horse race.

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