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Album reviews with Michal Boncza: October 19, 2020
Latest releases from Lucidvox, The Rheingans Sisters and Lizabett Russo
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Lucidvox
We Are
(Glitterbeat Records)
★★★★★
LUCIDVOX are one-offs. Although wedded to the rock idiom, they augment it by imaginatively borrowing from classical music and Russian folklore — a beguiling symbiosis.
The four Moscovites are consummate musicians and phenomenal instrumentalists — Galla Ghintoft plays guitar with mesmerising, elegant riffs, Alina Barsukova vocals sung in Russian are thrilling either solo solo and in choral combinations with others, while Nadezhda Samodurova’s jazz-influenced drumming and Anna Switchitout’s “wandering” bass combine in formidable, boundary- stretching orchestrations.
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