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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
The Necks’ Disquiet
I’ve been aware of The Necks for a while, but this is the first time I’ve really delved into their …what … their world, their ethos, their music. For a band that has been together for nearly 39 years and … Continue reading
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Tagged Avant garde music, experimental music, Jazz music, minimalism
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Duke Ellington & His Orchestra’s The Ellington Suites
The first thing you notice when you start up the first movement of Duke Ellington’s “The Queen’s Suite” is that you can’t tell if it’s “classical” or “jazz” or “pop” music. That, of course, is a hallmark of Ellington’s oeuvre, … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music
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Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, Mickey Roker’s Dizzy’s Big 4
Dizzy Gillespie is often referred to as one of the best jazz trumpeters of all time, and is credited along with Charlie Parker with being one of the most influential figures in the development of bebop. He was also known … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music
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Maras Sinemilli Deyisleri & Ulas Ozdemir’s Ummanda, Erkan Ogur & Ismail H. Demircioglu’s Gulun Kokusu Vardi, Kardes Turkuler’s Dogu, Yarkin Turk Ritm Grubu’s Ten/Skin, and Selim Sesler ve Grup Trakya’nin Sesi’s Kesan’a Giden Yollar
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Turkey is perhaps the oldest continuously inhabited region on this planet. With the Karain cave giving us evidence of Anatolian civilization beginning at least 10,000 years ago, the people of this corner of our … Continue reading
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Tagged Turkish music, world music
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Wah!’s Transformation, and CD Krishna
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Ummmmmmmmmmmm… Oh wait, that’s supposed to read “Om.” Wah! is a California based singer who writes and records music inspired by and for the New Age yoga movement. These two discs show two of … Continue reading
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Tagged New Age music, world music
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David Lyndon Huff’s Worldbeat: World Music for a New Millennium
This CD is the sort that one finds in the bookstores of retreat centers catering to middle aged, middle income, New Age types. It is a solo effort, where session musician Huff samples vocals from several traditions. Unfortunately, none of … Continue reading
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Tagged New Age music, world music
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Jack Hardy’s The Collected Works of Jack Hardy Sampler
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. This fifteen-song CD is a sampler of The Collected Works of Jack Hardy which was released in 1998 in two boxed sets of five CDs each. If you already know and love Hardy, you will … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music
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Alistair McCulloch’s Highly Strung
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. If you like fiddling and Celtic music, then you’ll like this first release by Alistair McCulloch, although the material is not all Celtic in origin and a great deal of it is original. Highly … Continue reading
Wes Corbett’s Drift
As I was giving Wes Corbett’s Drift a listen on my headphones — at the gym, as it happens — I thought the fiddler sounded familiar on one decidedly Celtic sounding track. Was that Brittany Haas? That track turns out … Continue reading
Shawn Camp’s The Ghost of Sis Draper
Fans of the late Guy Clark, and of top-notch acoustic Americana, rejoice! Shawn Camp, one of Guy’s long-time songwriting partners, has released a concept album of songs they wrote together over many years about the legendary Arkansas fiddler known as … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Bluegrass music
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