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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
Various artists’ Putumayo World Music Presents: Mali and Afro-Latin Party
The Putumayo label — along with various ventures by Peter Gabriel and Ry Cooder, the Rough Guide recordings and broacasts on BBC World Service by Andy Kershaw and Charlie Gillett, to name some of the most prominent influences — has … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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The Sadies’ In Concert Vol. One
The Sadies’ In Concert Vol. One is my feel-good disc of the summer. But then I’m one of the lucky souls who got a promo copy about the time the summer began. The rest of you who’ve had to wait … Continue reading
Shigeru Umebayashi’s House of Flying Daggers and Tan Dun’s Hero
Recent years have witnessed a major resurgence of interest in Asian culture in the West, as anime and manga become more and more popular, and as Asian martial-arts epics receive major releases in American movie houses. The first real mainstream … Continue reading
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Tagged classical music, soundtrack
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Reveillons!’s Quiquequoidontou? and Belzébuth’s Les Péchés du Diable
Quebecois traditional music combines the jigs and reels of Celtic music with some French folksong elements, plus its own particular style of foot percussion, nearly always done by someone seated in a chair and tapping their feet on a resonant … Continue reading
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Tagged Quebec folk music
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Crazy Horse’s Gone Dead Train: The Best of 1971-1989
The first time Crazy Horse’s name appeared on a record was on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere billed as Neil Young and Crazy Horse. The record was a dramatic change for Neil Young from his heavily produced solo album. This … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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The Association’s And Then…Along Comes The Association
On the original vinyl album from which this Collectors’ Choice CD hails, there are notes from Phyllis Burgess of TEEN magazine. These notes begin, “Some people think musicians are weird, and many would think The Association weird.” Her reasoning is … Continue reading
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Tagged folk-rock, rock and roll
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Efkar’s Back to Anatolia
Efkar is a six-person ensemble, featuring two female vocalists, as well as four men who play various traditional percussion, string and wind instruments. One of the vocalists, Sabahat Akkiraz, has six solo CDs to her credit. It looks as though … Continue reading
Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete and Local Gentry
James Dickey wrote the classic novel of survival, Deliverance. You’ll recall the importance folk music (and especially a guitar and banjo duet) played in the film. Dickey was an amateur guitar picker himself, and in his followup book Sorties (a … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Richard Thompson’s ‘RT’ The life and music of Richard Thompson
“It’s good to be able to choose to look back.” — Richard Thompson, as quoted by Nigel Schofield in ‘RT’ A celebration of the life and music of Richard Thompson, the book accompanying the box set of the same name. … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock, Richard Thompson
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Balkanarama’s Balkanarama Live
Seattle band Balkanarama plays mostly Rom or Gypsy music, largely dance music of the type you’d hear at wedding celebrations in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania and Greece. In addition to traditional instruments like violin (Matty Noble), saxophone (Ferko Saxmanov) … Continue reading