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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
Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Live
Peter Gabriel’s so much an intrinsic aspect of the Green Man motif and of the interstitial arts movement in general that Terri Windling in The Essential Bordertown anthology uses his WOMAD festival as ‘Womad on the Border’. (Don’t ask me … Continue reading
Debashish Bhattacharya and Bob Brozman’s Mahima
Calcutta native Debashish Bhattacharya and American Bob Brozman, both slide guitar virtuosi in their own traditons, have joined forces to create a masterpiece. Mahima is a joyous marriage of two major world music forms into something new and beautiful. The … Continue reading
Dromedary’s Live From the Make Believe
Dromedary is an acoustic duo from Athens, Georgia, that mixes music from all over the world to create its own unique blend. Rob McMaken plays dulcimer, mandolin and guitar, and Andrew Reissiger plays charango (the Andean mandolin-like instrument) and guitar. … Continue reading
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Conjunto Jardín’s Floreando
Conjunto Jardin is a U.S.-based group that plays music in the “son jarocho” style of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Floreando means “flowering,” and refers to the efforts to preserve and revitalize this intriguing folk music. Floreando is a delightful … Continue reading
Various artists’ The Rough Guide to the Music of Mexico
Mexico is a huge country. It has an immensely varied geography and a multitude of facets to its culture, born of the interraction between numerous native and European societies. Small wonder, then, that its music is so varied. The Rough … Continue reading
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Sweet Honey in the Rock’s The Women Gather
Sweet Honey in the Rock celebrates its 30th anniversary with this disc, a dozen-and-a-half songs in their trademark style. Sweet Honey is a women’s vocal ensemble that draws from the full range of African-American music — rhythmic chants, field chants … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Rough Guide to the Music of the Himalayas, Rough Guide to the Music of the Alps, and Rough Guide to the Music of the Appalachians
“High lonesome” is a term coined to describe the bluegrass sound popularized by Bill Monroe, but it aptly describes the outlook of anyone who lives in the mountains. At first glance, the music of the Himalayas, Alps and Appalachians might … Continue reading
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Jaak Johanson & Mart Johanson’s Põhja Vahemäng/Nordic Interlude and Johanson & Vennad’s Päevakera/Globus Diei
The Johanson family of Talinn, Estonia, have been making music for more than two decades. In the tradition of singer-songwriters the world over, they combine traditional material with their own songs and tunes, often using poems from their own and … Continue reading
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Eliseo Parra’s Viva Quien Sabe Querer
Eliseo Parra is dedicated to preserving and bringing forward the various strains that make up Iberian music, and he does it admirably in this intriguing and compelling CD. Spain hasn’t yet made much of a splash on the World Music … Continue reading
Boris Grebenshikov’s Russian Songwriter: A Collection From Boris Grebenshikov
A long time ago in a mythical, long-forgotten land known as the Soviet Union, a young man named Boris decided to write and sing songs. A native of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Boris Grebenshikov became arguably the most renowned figure … Continue reading
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