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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Category Archives: Music
Zoe Muth’s World of Strangers
It’s been three years since I saw Seattle’s Zoe Muth and her band the Lost High Rollers at a little festival on the northern Puget Sound. I liked her sound and thought she had a lot of potential. In the … Continue reading
Last Train Home’s Last Good Kiss
Last Train Home has taken several major steps forward with its eighth release Last Good Kiss. Not least among the positive changes are a relocation from Washington, D.C., to Nashville, and some lineup adjustments. And for the first time, all … Continue reading
Hook & Anchor’s Hook & Anchor
The song “Concerning Spectral Pinching” off of the debut self-titled album from Portland’s Hook & Anchor became one of my favorite songs of the summer. It neatly shows off the band’s chops at both country and rock, and showcases Kati … Continue reading
Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstøl’s Langeleik
An instrument that had its genesis in Hawaii a century and a half ago, the pedal steel guitar has reached into many corners of the world’s music scene. Two of the leading players of alternative pedal steel from Norway and … Continue reading
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Tagged ambient music, world music
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Martin Wind’s Stars, Dave Pietro’s The Butterfly Effect, and John McNeil & Tom Harrell’s Look To The Sky
What an absolute treasure this album is! If Martin Wind’s Stars is not on my jazz top 10 for 2026 I’ll eat my hat. With my favorite clarinetist Anat Cohen on the front line and the legendary pianist Kenny Barron … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music
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Tuuletar’s Maammo
“Ancient heritage meets global influences, contemporary expression and modern production.” That’s a pretty good description for a lot of the music we review here at GMR, but it applies particularly well to the Finnish vocal quartet Tuuletar. Maamo (Mother Earth) … Continue reading
Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz’s Circle and Square
Eric Brace and I go back a ways — I think to about 2001 when I reviewed an Americana compilation that included a track by his Washington, D.C. band Last Train Home. I helped bring him and his longtime musical … Continue reading
Monastery Of Gyütö’s Tibet: The Voice Of The Tantra
A certain number of films have brought the tantric chanting of Tibetan Buddhist monks to the attention of American and European movie goers. I’m think especially of Martin Scorsese’s 1997 film Kundun about the Dalai Lama, 2001’s narrative film Samsara … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley’s Mither o’the Sea
Richard wrote this for Folk Tales. I have been interested in the traditional music of the British Isles for more than 35 years and have grown older listening to the work of musicians who were already well known to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, orkney islands
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Ceili Rain’s Say ‘KAY-Lee’
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. I like this Christian Celtic album very much (it is also available under the name Ceili Rain.) It is cheerful, enthusiastic, and well-crafted. Those people who are more comfortable with a bleak, cynical view of … Continue reading