Bleep

Another brilliant bit of excavation from Death Is Not The End, a label rapidly becoming a crate-digging collective par excellence. Think Honest Jon’s with a particular focus on early-to-mid-20th-century folk musics of all strains. This particular release focuses on the career of Dolores Jiménez Alcántara, stage-name Nina de la Puebla, who was a prime exponent of the Flamenco and Andalusian Copla songbooks. As the fourteen songs here demonstrate, powerful alto was dexterous enough to encompass the great emotional sweep of these most hot-blooded of musical traditions. In addition to the tales of lost love and personal pain, songs like ‘En los pueblos de mi Andalusia’ are as much historical artefact as they are popular music.