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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
Neck’s here’s mud in yer eye: a Psycho-Ceilídh retrospective
Barkeep, another Guinness please, with a chaser of Irish if you will. Yes, I’ve just listened to far too much really bad Irish and Irish-American music this afternoon while attempting to find one or two discs which our readers won’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music, rock and roll
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Various artists’ Cropredy Capers
This review was contributed by Paul Brandon. “This is the story of the twenty-five August weekends which led me there — the story of a band falling apart and coming together, of miracles and mishaps, of weather from the sublime … Continue reading
Lhasa’s The Living Road
Lhasa de Sela is a Canadian singer who performs a unique blend of acoustic folk and electronica, sung in the three major languages of the North America: French, Spanish and English. This CD is brimming with passionate melody and rhythm … Continue reading
Amelia’s After All
Amelia is a four-piece combo based in Portland, Oregon, that rose from the ashes of the late-’90s alt-country band the Flatirons, which made one critically lauded album before splitting apart. Guitarist Scott Weddle, drummer Richard Cuellar Jr., and bassist and … Continue reading
Tres Chicas’ Sweetwater
Duos are common in country music, but trios are less so. These three chicas have all made varying marks on the folk and alt-country scenes, and have been getting together for a while to sing and play. Finally this year … Continue reading
K. Sridhar, et al., Raga Madhukauns, Raga Piloo; Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, et al., Raga Piloo
The Indian raga, which has enjoyed variable popularity in the West since the 1970s under the influence of a number of musicians from various backgrounds and, if we may speak of such a thing, “schools” (George Harrison and Terry Riley … Continue reading
Väsen’s Keyed Up, and live at Portland, Maine, September 23, 2004
Reviewing a group more than once always presents the danger of repeating oneself, especially if the group isn’t known for taking extreme left turns with each release. With Väsen, it seems that each recording reveals music that just gets deeper … Continue reading
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Tagged Nordic music
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Alamaailman Vasarat’s Käärmelautakunta
Alamaailman Vasarat is, according to their website, “a Finnish group playing horny and punky secret agent brass music.” While I don’t think that description does the band sufficient justice, coming up with a better one isn’t necessarily easy. Jarno Sarkula … Continue reading
A Nordic fiddle omni: Alicia Björnsdotter Abrams’ Live at Stallet, Marianne Maans’ Marianne Maans, Majorstuen’s Jorun Jogga, Jan Beitohaugen Granli’s Lite Nemmar, and Kristine Heebøll’s Trio Mio
There is probably no culture on the planet that is without some kind of bowed instrument in its traditional practices. From a simple spike fiddle to the violin family, humans have been fascinated by the sound of dragging a bow … Continue reading
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Tagged Nordic music
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Robyn Hitchcock’s Spooked
Here’s one that nobody saw coming. English psychedelic folkie Robyn Hitchcock’s latest album is a collaboration with American alt-oldtime darlings Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Hitchcock, who has been making his own idiosyncratic brand of music since 1977, when he … Continue reading