-
Meta
Editorial Staff
Cat Eldridge
Gary WhitehouseSearch
-
Recent Posts
- 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
Bobo Stenson and Lennart Åberg’s Bobo Stenson/Lennart Åberg
Christopher White contributed this review. Bobo Stenson and Lennart Åberg are among the best known Swedish jazz musicians, playing piano and saxophones respectively. I hear skeptics out there making cracks about “best known Icelandic blues musicians” and so on, but … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Jazz music, Nordic music
Comments Off on Bobo Stenson and Lennart Åberg’s Bobo Stenson/Lennart Åberg
Chava Alberstein’s End of the Holiday
This review was contributed by Kate Danemark. When I requested this CD of klezmer music I was expecting something totally different. Klezmer is upbeat, slightly discordant, generally obscure party-type music. Klezmer is “Hava Nagila.” This is, well, different from that, … Continue reading
Hoyt Axton’s Flashes of Fire: Hoyt’s Very Best 1962-1990
Hoyt Axton was that lovable bear of a father in The Black Stallion, and Gremlins too, as I recall. It seemed so cool to have Hoyt as a dad. He knew what kids wanted … even if it got them … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music, folk-rock, rock and roll
Comments Off on Hoyt Axton’s Flashes of Fire: Hoyt’s Very Best 1962-1990
Howe Gelb’s Ogle Some Piano
Tucson’s musical savant Howe Gelb has released an album of mostly instrumental keyboard music, Ogle Some Piano. It’s a curious disc, even by Gelb’s eccentric standards — 19 tracks of piano meanderings in a variety of styles: jazz, rock, pop, … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music, Jazz music, rock and roll
Comments Off on Howe Gelb’s Ogle Some Piano
Väsen’s Trio
Väsen is Olov Johansson on 3-row chromatic nyckelharpa and kontrabasharpa, Mikael Marin on viola, 5-string viola, and pomposa, and Roger Tallroth on 12-string guitar and bosoki. Having had the opportunity over the last few years to immerse myself in many … Continue reading
Jevan Cole and Jan Van Dijk’s Tunes of Curly Nature
This review was contributed by Alistair Brown. Very occasionally, those lucky enough to be wandering around the secret corners of some large summer festival will come across the kind of impromptu session where two musicians, apparently separated at birth, have … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged folk music
Comments Off on Jevan Cole and Jan Van Dijk’s Tunes of Curly Nature
Seán O’Driscoll and Larry Egan’s The Kitchen Recordings
Alistair Brown contributed this review. The title of the album says it all; this recording of Irish music on banjo or bouzouki and button accordion was recorded in the O’Driscoll kitchen on a Sony four-track recorder. That is not, I … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Irish music
Comments Off on Seán O’Driscoll and Larry Egan’s The Kitchen Recordings
Jason Whelan’s Blur, The Tim Malloys’ Wrecked, and various artists’ Shite ‘n’ Onions, Volume 1
Here at GMR we like the raucous music that builds on the Anglo-Celtic traditions; from the Oysterband to the Pogues, we’re there. And this omnibus review finds me with a nice collection of raucous artists, from St. John’s Newfoundland to … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Celtic music, rock and roll
Comments Off on Jason Whelan’s Blur, The Tim Malloys’ Wrecked, and various artists’ Shite ‘n’ Onions, Volume 1
5 Mile Chase’s 5 Mile Chase
Pat Simmonds submitted this review. Another record out of New England is the duo 5 Mile Chase, featuring fiddler Django Amerson and guitarist-singer Brian Miller, again trawling the rich Irish American heritage so abundant in the Northeast United States. What … Continue reading
Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer’s Music For Two and Obstinato
Banjo vertuoso Béla Fleck, having already pioneered and deeply explored the intersections of bluegrass, jazz and pop in a 20-year recording career, in 2001 recorded a double Grammy winning disc of “classical” music, Perpetual Motion. It leaned heavily to Baroque … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Bluegrass music, classical music, Jazz music
Comments Off on Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer’s Music For Two and Obstinato