Gemma Summerfield - The Poet's Echo Release:The Poet's Echo Rubicon but also draws on the

but also draws on the best available material - in particular

More power rock than power pop

From the explosive opening track to the final notes of the closing anthem

Moving from a remote tribal village to the sprawling metropolis of Johannesburg

learning Argentinian folk songs and tango music

Gemma Summerfield - The Poet's Echo Release:The Poet's Echo Rubicon but also draws on theAlexander Pushkin (1799 1837) effectively founded Russian literature, elevating his mother tongue to match the wit and penetrating observation of the French, Spanish and English writers he admired. He was revered even through the Soviet years, the hundredth anniversary of his death being grandly commemorated in 1936 during Stalin's reign. It was for that occasion that the two sets of Pushkin songs by Russia's leading composers of that time Prokofiev