Lizabett Russo: Something- in- movement

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As things intensify in the opening

Ocean Frequency, you enter the weird and wonderful sound world of Lizabett Russo. This Scottish- based Romanian singer- songwriter is a vocalist of extraordinary range, her voice soaring and quavering with nervy urgency, and she couldn’t be better matched on this third album by a potent grouping of electric guitar wizard Graeme Stephen, violinist Tim Vincent- Smith, cellist Pete Harvey and Tim Lane on percussion. Her songs are by turns invocative, accusatory and plaintive. Superficial comparisons to Kate Bush are perhaps inevitable, as in Birds, where her voice hovers and swoops against gentle guitar and cello, but Russo is a one- off. Darkly dramatic strings transcend the slightly faux- folk folde- rols of Penumbra and there’s a rocked up Eastern European vibe to The Hunter and the Prey. It ends with

the charm of the Danube Song, which her grandfather used to sing.