NAKED MUSIC (Moscodisc) 8/10 Eleanor McEvoy calls it Naked Music, most obviously because the band is gone, replaced by her sinewy acoustic guitar with its mix of gentleness and insistence, or occasionally by electric guitar or electric piano. The deeper nakedness lies in her singing and her lyrics. Heartfelt, raw…
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UNSONGS (Propeller/Caroline) 8.5/10 By the 1980s music largely ceased to be the voice of protest and the force for change that it had been in the ’60s. Now Norway’s Pal Moddi Knutson has gathered together 12 songs from across the years and around the world that were banned or censored,…
FRONTIER LULLABY (cdbaby.com/Artist/AlesaLajana) 7.5/10 This was eight years in the making, with Alesa Lajana wandering Australia, researching post-invasion interaction between blacks and whites. The lunar right and their shrill apologists will hate it. They prefer using terms like “black armband view of history” to sweep away inconvenient truths about atrocities.…