Just when you think that there are no more worlds to conquer, you get an album like this. How can you even begin to describe the result of two disparate forces such as Hungarian folk music and American acoustic blues? But, that is what you get here as the otherworldly voice of Eniko Szabo teams up with the Nashville skyline’d guitar of Gary Lucas and extra textures of toni Dezso’s sax on a wild and wooley take of Americana and Hungary-ana.
Lucas uses his acoustic guitar for rural folk blues on a piece like “My Sweet Mother’s Rosewood,” but Szabo’s Eastern European vocals take the melody and mood to another planet, if not dimension. Texas picking on “two Roads” and “I Dislike How Times Are Changing” are part dusty roads and The Road to Shanghai as Szabo’s voice delivers an Asian style of harmony. Twangy and jazzy pickingsaon “Those Beautiful Saxon Girls” or bluegrass strums from “My Snow White” create a sweet sauce for Szabo’s sour, creating a tang in your ear. Ominous and mystical moods are formed with “Over The Water” and “Sorrowful Is This World,” wondering how someone came up with this otherworldly idea. Wondrous and wonderful. Nothing to compare it to-like travelling to uncharted lands.