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I originally reviewed this in Folk Roots issue 109, 1992, but I seem to have missed the point then, so it's re-assessed and rewritten here.

JABLKOŇ & SVĚCENÝ
Jablkoň & Svěcený
B+N 9101 (1991)

Czech band Jablkoň - classical guitars, voices, bass, percussion, panpipe and accordion, here joined by classical violinist Jaroslav Svěcený - has been around since 1977. The guitars scamper and thrum, voices and other sounds interject playfully, the violin saws and soars, in quirky, ingenious, direction-changing music by leader Ingo Bellmann and fellow-guitarist Michal Němec. A neat sleeve-note analogy describes it as "like a well-crafted building with a wild back-yard".


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