Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: October 19, 2020
Latest releases from Lucidvox, The Rheingans Sisters and Lizabett Russo
Album reviews: Oct 19, 2020
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
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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