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- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
Category Archives: Music
Shave the Monkey’s Good Luck Mr Gorsky
This is the fourth CD by Shave the Monkey, four years after its predecessor Mad Arthur, which I reviewed along with their first two recordings here. The lineup is the same, but this time they have left the traditional tunes … Continue reading
Shave the Monkey’s Dragonfly, Mad Arthur, and The Unseelie Court
Shave the Monkey is a six-member English group. They started out in 1988 as a five-piece, but added a drummer after their first CD. Since that time they’ve kept up a surprisingly stable membership consisting of Bryan Causton on various … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock
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Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton: Early recordings, 1987-1998
Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton’s The Gael Linn Barnes, Allison Hampton, Wendy Morrison, and Myron Bretholz’s The Celtic Consort Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton’s The Dark Island Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton’s The Spiral Castle Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music
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Aly Bain & Ale Möller’s Beyond the Stacks
One of the finest concerts my wife and I ever saw was Aly Bain and Ale Möller at the Center for Cultural Exchange in Portland, Maine, several years back. Like the music of Frifot, of which Ale is a member, … Continue reading
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Tagged Nordic music, Scottish music
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Aly Bain and Ale Möller at the Center for Cultural Exchange, Portland, Maine, May 12, 2005
Donna Bird and Cat Eldridge co-wrote this review. Maine-dwellers will remember May 2005 as the month of ceaseless rain, wind and unseasonably cold temperatures. The weather was at its worst on the weekends. Most of us were house-bound against our … Continue reading
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Tagged Nordic music, Scottish music
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Nightnoise’s The White Horse Sessions
I see a strange man running silently He never looks behind himself He has no time to see He makes no sound, he has no voice The ground he doesn’t feel But he’s always on the run And I wonder … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music, New Age music
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Buster Sledge’s Dreamer EP
American-Norwegian country band Buster Sledge released a well-received full-length album Call Home in mid-2022, and followed up with this EP of odds & ends and leftovers as the year was winding down. I hadn’t heard of Buster Sledge before, but … Continue reading
Buddy Tate & White Label’s Tate’s Delight
I was unfamiliar with American reed player Buddy Tate until this recording crossed my path, and now I know what I’ve been missing. This archival release from Storyville presents a superb live set recorded in Denmark in September 1982. It’s … Continue reading
Okra Playground’s Itku
Itku is an exciting new album by the Finnish folk pop group Okra Playground. Their third full-length, following their 2015 debut Turmio and 2018’s Ääneni yli vesien, it was released in late 2022. The three powerful singing women of Okra … Continue reading
Maria Kalaniemi and Aldergaz’s Ahma
Accordion fans, take note! This one’s for you. Accordionist Maria Kalaniemi and Aldergaz play some fine tunes on this album. It seems effortlessly delivered and should be a welcome acquisition fans of the squeeze box. All others, well … I … Continue reading