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- A Kinrowan Estate story: puppeteers, and their puppets
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
Category Archives: Music
Various Artists’ Women of Rembetica
Brendan Foreman penned this review. Rembetica, the music of the Greek underground, has often been referred to as the “Greek blues.” With its sensual sounds and often unconventional, if not subversive, subject matters, including class struggle, forbidden love and drug use, … Continue reading
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Llan de Cubel’s IV
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. As the popularity of the music of Ireland and Scotland increases, there has been a renewed interest in similar traditional musics of Europe, particularly those areas which can be conceived as “Celtic” in any way. One … Continue reading
Kepa Junkera’s Bilbao 00:00h
Brendan Foreman penned this review. Throughout their history, the Basque people have steadfastly remained a vocal and major cultural force of the Iberian peninsula, despite centuries of abuse under Spanish rule. And, unfortunately, it seems that this abuse — like that … Continue reading
Hugh Shields’ Tunes of the Munster Pipers: Irish Traditional Music from the James Goodman Manuscripts
It isn’t often that a new book of tunes comes along that could successfully change the whole way we look at Irish music, but this book has that potential. Over 500 tunes are compiled in it, as recorded by James … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish piping music, Irish traditional music
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Inti-Illimani’s Amar de Nuevo
Brendan Foreman penned this review. Since the Sixties, when the original members met as students in Chile’s Santiago Technical University, Inti-Illimani (pronounced “intee-E-gee-mane”) has been one of the most widely known Chilean bands across the world. Throughout their long and fruitful … Continue reading
Inti-Illimani’s The Best of Inti-Illimani
Brendan Foreman penned this review. As I noted in my review of their fantastic 1999 release, Amar de Nuevo, Inti-Illimani is a veteran Chilean musical group who has managed to weather the severities of Chile’s politics since the late 1960s (being more … Continue reading
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Tagged Chilean traditional music
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Beginish’s Beginish
Naomi de Bruyn penned this review. Beginish is a potent Irish traditional group which was born from four musicians who are successful in their own right, and have a long history of collaborating with one another. This history of collaboration is … Continue reading
Kalman Balogh and the Gypsy Cimbalom Band’s Gypsy Jazz
Brendan Foreman penned this review. As played by this fine ensemble, gypsy jazz is an high-spirited, infectious conglomeration of swing, klezmer and assorted Eastern European traditional musics with ample room for jazzy soloing and even the odd scat here and there. … Continue reading
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Athenians’ Greek Songs, Dances and Rembetiko
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. This CD is one of the latest in Rounder’s economy label, EasyDisc.Consisting of several excellent examples of Greek traditional music sampled from several previous Arc recordings, it features the vastly proficient playing of The Athenians. This … Continue reading
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Allen Lowe’s American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893 to 1957
Brendan Foreman penned this review. Reading Allen Lowe’s book American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893 to 1957, I found myself agreeing with the late Tupac Shakur’s vision of the afterlife. Heaven would simply be a large night club filled … Continue reading
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Tagged American pop music, American popular music, blues, jazz, Ragtime
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