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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
Tag Archives: world music
Various Artists (John Noise Manis, prod.): Gamelan of Java
Volume I: Kraton Kasunanan Volume II: Contemporary Composers Gamelan of Java is a new series from John Noise Manis, who produced the landmark series, Gamelan of Central Java. Volume I features two gamelans from the court of Surakarta, the Kyai … Continue reading
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Kodo’s Live at Symphony Center, 2/21/11
“Symphony Center” is what, after renovations and expansion, they now call Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. And it would seem an ideal venue for Kodo: a relatively intimate space (I said “relatively”), almost perfect acoustics, excellent sightlines from almost anywhere in the … Continue reading
Kodo’s Akatsuki
Once upon a time, when I was younger and lived, possibly, more completely in the world of art than I do now, I went with some friends to Chicago’s then newly refurbished Auditorium Theater to see the Kodo Drummers, as … Continue reading
Shujaat Husain Khan and Katayoun Goudarzi, Ruby
One of my favorite releases of 2013 was Spring, a beautiful and uplifting two-CD set by Katayoun Goudarzi and Shujaat Husain Khan. They have a new release out called Ruby, their fifth, and it’s definitely on my short list for … Continue reading
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Katayoun Goudarzi and Shujaat Husain Khan: Spring
It’s winter here in the Northern Hemisphere, but one of the most beautiful musical releases of the past few months is called Spring. It’s a collaboration between an Indian sitar master and a Persian-American singer that sets to music the … Continue reading
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Cesaria Évora’s Mae Carinhosa
Cesaria Évora died in 2011 at the age of 70, having spent most of her life singing. This posthumous release gathers a baker’s dozen tracks she recorded over her career but which never ended up on any of her 11 … Continue reading
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Johnny Clegg’s Human
Human is Johnny Clegg’s 20th studio album, not counting any best-of compilations. Clegg was born in England and grew up largely in South Africa. He caused a big stir in the ’70s and ’80s by fronting Juluka, a mixed-race band … Continue reading
Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon’s Soul Call (Om Namo Narayanaya)
It is tempting to lead with this release’s fascinating backstory. But the music is even better. I hope it was more the music than the story that led to its nomination for a 2010 Grammy in the Best Contemporary World … Continue reading
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Ilgi’s Isakas Nakts Dziesmas
A new CD from this Latvian folk-rock band is always a cause for celebration. This is the first release we’ve received from Ilgi since we wrote our omnibus review of the band’s rather extensive oeuvre two years ago. As was … Continue reading
Anatolia’s Folk Songs and Dance Music of Turkey and the Arab World, and Chicago Classical Oriental Ensemble’s Soul of a People: The Songs of Sheikh Sayyed Darweesh
These two CDs have been sitting in my “to review” pile for quite a few weeks. They made it to the top this time because the characters in Birds of Amber, which I just reviewed, refer to Darweesh’s music with … Continue reading
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