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- 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
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Music
Dave Evans’s The Words In Between
No’am Newman wrote this review. The year 1971 found me as a dewy-eyed teenager sitting agog at the Bristol Troubadour. I had just discovered that my adopted home city had a strong “folk scene,” and that good music was always … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk music, folk music
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Kristi Stassinopoulou’s Echotropia, and Ziroq’s Ziroq
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Mix Värttinä, Ofra Haza, and Manu Chao in a bucket and set it on an Athens street and what do you get? Kristi Stassinopoulou’s Echotropia. Released in Europe in 1999, it has gotten almost unanimously … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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De Amsterdam Klezmer Band’s Limonchiki
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Looking for a spicy klezmer band? From Holland, De Amsterdam Klezmer Band might be the band for you. Assigned to Knitting Factory’s alternative sub-label, their music is at times so spiced up with Eastern European … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkan music, Klezmer music, world music
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Romashka’s Romashka
In a little over a year, Romashka have built a reputation as one of the most exciting and energetic bands in New York City’s world music scene. Before converging on Brooklyn, the band’s eight members cut their musical teeth in … Continue reading
Adam Good’s Dances Of Macedonia and the Balkans
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Adam Good is a Berklee-educated tambura player living in New York City. “Dedicated entirely to the Macedonian Izvorno style,” Dances of Macedonia and the Balkans is just that: a CD spotlighting Balkan dance tunes. Good … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkan music, world music
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Anouar Brahem’s After The Last Sky
Each of Anouar Brahem’s albums, going back more than 30 years now, has a different feel, a different vibe. Although the Tunisian oud master and composer’s music is centered on Arabic folk music and classical maqams, since the early 1990s … Continue reading
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La Baula’s Cançons a l’Ombra
The new Catalonian roots music ensemble La Baula’s debut album Cançons a l’ombra (Songs in the Shadow) is a listener friendly collection of traditional songs collected from various sources. La Baula is a big group. Members include Roger Andorrà, Pau … Continue reading
Various artists’ Folk and Great Tunes from Belarus
Here is yet another outstanding release in CPL-Music’s Folk and Great Tunes series. This one brings us a variety of contemporary folk music from Belarus, which is, sad to say, one of those former Soviet republics that most of us … Continue reading
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Tagged Belarusian music, folk music, folk-rock, world music
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Various artists’ Nouse Luonto: Lauluja Monimuotoisuudestat
“The birds gifted us their song thousands of years ago. Now it is our responsibility to ensure the vitality of their song.” Those words from Heikki Laitinen, a musician, researcher, and emeritus professor of folk music, state the theme of … Continue reading
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Tagged Nordic music, world music
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Mathias Eick Quartet’s Lullaby
Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick has played on some of my favorite ECM titles of recent years, particularly Sinikka Langeland’s spine-tingling Wind And Sun and Manu Katché’s Playground, and he has quite an extensive discography as a leader as well as … Continue reading