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Jake Xerxes Fussel - Out of Sight (2019)

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Jewel of an album - beautiful, natural, melodic, accessible and chamber. It is album of covers picked wisely and with great taste and one can be thankful for Jake, a folklorist connoisseur to have picked these gems and played them for us with his smallest of ensembles.  

75 Dollar Bill - I was real (2019)

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A guitar and percussion, with guests (viola, baritone saxophone...) are enough to create a wonderful, magical and uber-curious album of non compromising, experimental and very courageous music. Repetitive phrases, seemingly monotonous rhythms and ubiquious drones are whirling inside your head and suck you into eye of a hurricane which slams you all over, from kraut-modernist to African latitudes and back, and unexpectedly leave you craving for more of this wondrous ride...