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A blue-and-white Earth framed by laurel branches above a crowd, with centred white lettering across the top.

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Sain (Recordiau) Cyf. · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Dros Blant Y Byd

Twm Morys

Album artwork for Twm Morys, provided through the SAIN Records collection on Wikimedia Commons.

A CLOSER LOOK / 01

Inside the image.

A square album cover built around a large, nearly centred image of the Earth. The globe fills much of the middle and lower half, with the Atlantic and the outlines of the Americas visible amid bright white cloud formations. It appears against a deep navy and black background. The upper edge of the image fades into a band of vivid blue, while the bottom of the globe meets a curved, pale blue-white horizon above a densely packed crowd that runs along the lower edge.

A pair of blue-and-white laurel branches curves up on either side of the planet, enclosing it like a wreath. Their pointed leaves alternate between pale blue and white, with darker blue areas giving them a cut-out, layered appearance. The branches meet in a broad blue ribbon or flourish beneath the globe; small white shapes and star-like marks decorate this junction. The crowd below is rendered in pale, high-contrast tones, its many heads and raised shapes compressed into a narrow strip beneath the sweeping horizon.

Several centred lines of white lettering occupy the top portion. The largest line, “DROS BLANT Y BYD”, stretches across the upper blue band in ornate, high-contrast serif capitals with pronounced curves and shadowing. Below it are smaller lines, “Caneuon i Unicef” and “Yn cynnwys • Featuring”. A further line reads “GERFYDD YN Y NWYLO GWYN • THE ROAD”, followed by several tightly spaced lines of smaller names. The lettering sits above the globe and leaves a clear gap between the credits and the wreath’s upper leaves. The image combines a photographic-looking Earth and crowd with highly stylised, symmetrical graphic branches and decorative typography. Strong contrast between the luminous planet and the dark ground makes the globe the focal point.

ASSOCIATIONS & IMPRESSIONS / 02

What the image evokes.

The Earth is presented as both a vast object in darkness and the centrepiece of a civic emblem. The wreath gives the composition a ceremonial, almost medal-like quality, while the crowd at the bottom brings the distant planet back to human scale. Together they suggest a public gathering viewed beneath a shared world: solemn, but also collective and hopeful.

The blue palette helps the image hold two moods at once. The deep background feels spacious and cold, like night or outer space; the brighter blue at the top and the pale leaves bring a more celebratory, pageant-like note. The globe’s turbulent clouds make it feel active rather than still, whereas the balanced wreath and centred lettering impose order. That contrast lends the cover a formal, commemorative air without making it entirely serene.

Associations are subjective readings, rather than documented influences or statements of the artist’s intention.

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Lettering & observation notes
  • DROS BLANT Y BYD — Large centred title at the top
  • Caneuon i Unicef — Centred below the title
  • Yn cynnwys • Featuring — Centred below “Caneuon i Unicef”
  • GERFYDD YN Y NWYLO GWYN • THE ROAD — Centred below “Yn cynnwys • Featuring”
  • TWM MORYS • CARYL PARRY JONES • BRYN FÔN — First small credits line beneath the song title
  • DAFYDD DAI • SIAN JAMES • GERAINT GRIFFITHS — Second small credits line beneath the song title
  • STEVE EAVES A RHAI POBL • LLIO MILLIWARD — Third small credits line beneath the song title
  • STIFYN PARRI • Y MONIARS • DAFYDD IWAN — Fourth small credits line beneath the song title
BACK TO THE SOURCE / 03

Artwork sources & licence.

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Source year
1995
Source author field
Sain (Records) Ltd
Attribution
Sain (Recordiau) Cyf.
Collection
SAIN / Wikimedia Commons
Catalogue number
Sain SCD2113
Source
Wikimedia Commons file page ↗
Permission evidence
Public VRT notice: 2017050910011681
Source checked
20 October 2026

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