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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
Mercedes Peon’s Isue
Tim Hoke penned this review. It came as no surprise to me that Mercedes Peon plays the gaita. I’ve heard enough good Galician pipers that I subconsciously assume that any Gallego is also a gaitero. However, if you listen to this … Continue reading
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble’s Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet, , Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon and New Impossibilities
Ordinarily, I run out of the room when someone tries to foist classical music on me. But these three CDs from Sony presented me with a dilemma. I have an abiding fascination with the Silk Road as a thread … Continue reading
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Lalezar’s Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio, Volume I, Sultan Composers and Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio, Volume II, Music of the Dancing Boys
The Lalezar Ensemble is part of a current revival of classical Ottoman music under way in Turkey. The group — four instrumentalists and three vocalists — have created four CDs that give a sampling of some of the best and … Continue reading
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Lalezar Ensemble’s Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio, Vol. III, Minority Composers and Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio, Vol. IV, Ottoman Suite
Turkey is strategically located at one of the world’s major crossroads. This applies to religion, culture, government and the arts as well as its physical location along trade routes. And for several hundred years ending in the early 20th Century, … Continue reading
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Ensemble Karot’s Traditional Songs of Armenia, Volume 1
Big Earl Sellar penned this review. Let us ponder Armenia for a moment, an ancient nation which once stretched its boundaries to include parts of modern Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Georgia. Right there you know that whatever musical tradition exists … Continue reading
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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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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