LUCIA NIMCOVA & SHOLTO DOBIE - "DILO" LPLucia Nimcov & Sholto Dobie DILO LP (Mappa, 2021) "DILO is named after an important independent Ukrainian daily newspaper that was shut down when the Red Army entered Lviv in 1939. The four long tracks on DILO blur field recordings with song; an unpolished, privileged glimpse into a private world. We hear dogs barking and insects buzzing in the summer heat, then a blast of hurdy gurdy or violin will drift in, or a plaintive song soars softly over the

and deep bass melodies

each of which won him an Ivor Novello award

Field recordings bump up against back-porch guitar plucking that

desperately listening through the hiss

"Not far off two years from the day

saxophone : gwen jamois

The reverberant chime of a guitar

and this record appeared under many names

and dusty R&B records

Fight 2xLP (Black Acre

in his watercolors

Think early Royal Trux