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- 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
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Music
Tsagaan Sar’s White Moon (Traditional and Popular Music from Mongolia)
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Often the term “world music” has been corrupted to encompass a small and narrow band of culturally “acceptable” music. A typical fan of this genre will have a fair-sized collection of Afro-pop, Latino popular … Continue reading
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Les Ross Sr.’s Hulivili Huuliharppu/Rollicking Harmonica
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Les Ross is a retired accountant from Marquette, Michigan who plays harmonica in traditional Finnish-American lumberjack style. This album was made when Ross was in his mid-seventies, but the playing is as wonderful and young … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Ten Years of Face Music
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Face Music is a Swiss record label, specializing in World and World fusion styles. This compilation comes after the release of their 22nd album, no mean feat for an independent label with such an … Continue reading
Nohon’s Altai Maktal
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. As I write this, the first snow of fall is drifting down. The chill of the coming six months is in the winds, and every face I see wears a frown, dreading what winter … Continue reading
The Klezmer Conservatory Band’s Dance Me To The End of Love
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. If one would consider the KlezRoym New School, then the Klezmer Conservatory Band is thoroughly Old School in their approach to the music. All of the usual forms of klezmer are here: the frenetic freylekhs, … Continue reading
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Various artists’ The Rough Guide To The Music Of Russia
Over the last decade or so the idea of music compilations has taken on a new face – thank goodness!! Compilations have become an art form and, fortunately for the music lover, a thoroughly enjoyable experience. The series of Rough … Continue reading
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A Latvian music UPE Records omnibus review
Various artists’ A Touch of Latvian Folk Music Skandinieki’s Skandinieki Valdis Muktupavels’s Valdis Muktupavels Marija Golubova’s Stasti Un Dziesmas Latvia is a small country located on the east side of the Baltic Sea, with Estonia to the north, Lithuania to … Continue reading
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Divanhana’s Zavrzlama
Divanhana is a Bosnian sevdah band founded in 2009 by a group of students from the Sarajevo Music Academy. Fronted by powerful and supple singer Šejla Grgić, they play folk and “urban traditional” music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well … Continue reading
Ritchie Valens’s The Complete Ritchie Valens, limited edition DVD
Tell me all you know about Ritchie Valens! … umh … “La Bamba” right? … Airplane crash … and that’s about it! Well, there is a story to tell about Ritchie Valens and a new DVD from Whirlwind Media tells … Continue reading
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Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Good and Green Again
New music from Jake Xerxes Fussell is always cause for celebration, and this one is very special. Good and Green Again is his fourth release and in some ways represents a bit of a departure. On his two previous albums … Continue reading