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- What’s New for the 25th of October: Some Autumnal Matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for 11th of October: Music reviews picked by Gary for you to consider, ‘Hotel California’ live by the Eagles for you to listen to, and a biography of the Eagles for you to read. So isn’t that enough for one edition here? I think so.
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Getting Ready for All Hallows Eve
- What’s New for the 27th of September: A tribute to Cape Breton music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 14th of September: books and music to see summer out
- What’s New for the 10th of September: It’s Definitely Late Summer!
- What’s New for the 30th of August: Dolly Pardon
- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
Category Archives: Music
Mary Ann Harris’ Crow Girls
Having heard Mary Ann Harris’ backup vocals on husband Charles de Lint’s Old Blue Truck, I still wasn’t prepared for her singing on her own EP, Crow Girls. The element of surprise seems to be something the two have in … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s Old Blue Truck
I’m not sure what I expected Charles de Lint to sound like as a singer. Whatever it was I expected, it wasn’t what I got. We’re calling it folk/trad-singer/songwriter music, and I suppose that’s as good a description as any. … Continue reading
Kjell-Erik Arnesen and Jrgen Larsen’s Calls, and Frydis Ree Wekre’s Ceros
Both of these albums are horn-based. The horn is much less popular, it seems, than its cousins in the brass family. Most jazz bands have saxophone, trombone, and trumpet sections (in order of decreasing size), but no horns. I haven’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Nordic music, Norwegian music
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Maria Kalaniemi and Timo Alakotila’s Ambra
Maria Kalaniemi is perhaps the best known and certainly one of the most prolific of the new school of Finnish folk musicians who are pushing the boundaries of their music. The accordionist, a graduate of the prestigious Sebelius Academy, combines … Continue reading
Väsen’s Linnaeus Väsen
According to the Väsen Web site, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin fame said in Dagens Industri Weekend (May 19-20 2006), ‘In Sweden you have Väsen. It’s a traditional folk band based on the Nyckelharpa, and it’s really good music, … Continue reading
Svobsk’s En Klang af Tidloshed (A Sound of Timelessness)
En Klang af Tidloshed is the second CD from this Danish neo-traditional band. Their first outing, Sig Mig (Tell Me), was issued in 2005. Back then, the band was a duet, with Maren Hallberg on accordion and Jorgen Dickmeiss on stringed instruments … Continue reading
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Tagged Danish music, Nordic music
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Frifot’s Flyt
We have been fans of the Swedish folk-jazz ensemble Frifot for as long as I can remember. We have all of their CDs, as well as quite a few CDs on which one or more members of the group perform including Agram, Enteli, Nordan and Reisaren). … Continue reading
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A Nordic Roots Omni: Ragnhild Furholt’s Lån Meg Vengjene; Ragnhild Furebotten’s Edelig Vals; Kristine Heebøll’s 10 Point; Svend-Erik Pedersen’s Selsølåter — Låter fra Selsø; Eskil Romme’s Himmerlandsmelodier
Nordic roots. That’s what this review is about. We tend to refer to “Nordic trad” a lot around here at GMR, but it strikes me, surveying these CDs, that “traditional” is going to get bent badly out of shape, perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged Nordic music, traditional music
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John Jacob Niles’ I Wonder as I Wander: Carols and Love Songs
Lory Hess penned this review. If John Jacob Niles is just a name to you–perhaps most famously attached to the haunting carol “I Wonder as I Wander”–then listening to this recording will make him into a Voice. And I mean … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachian music., Child Ballads, John Jacod Niles
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Dàimh’s Moidart to Mabou
Pat Simmonds penned this review I first heard about this band through a bit of buzz that was coming out of Cape Breton a few years ago. I suppose that it was only a matter of time before the concept of … Continue reading