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, which was followed by a handful of editions in which he balanced between orchestral albums and 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 the most hopeful and optimistic, despite the underlying melancholy in all the album's themes, as if, in the musician's life, agony and ecstasy were inseparable. 

Throughout the 13 songs that make up the album he is now presenting at Theatro Circo, we hear samples of Gal Costa, a children's choir or a recitation by Mick Head of Ulysses, by James Joyce.