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- 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
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- 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
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- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
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- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
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- 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
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Tag Archives: world music
Various artists’ Rough Guide to the Cuban Music Story
Q. Does the world really need yet another “various artists” collection of Cuban music? A. If it’s as good as this one, yes. I didn’t expect to like this, one of dozens of similar CDs to hit the market since … Continue reading
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Cosmic Voices of Bulgaria’s Mechmetio
A women’s Bulgarian choral group was one of the major phenomena of world music in the 1990s. Cosmic Voices of Bulgaria is a similar group, with a fresh recording of lively and varied choral music as it’s only made in … Continue reading
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Abdouli Diakite and Mamadou Sidibe’s Jebebara: The Bamana Djembe; and various artists’ Tambacounda Senegal: Live Sogoni
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. It’s always an embarrassing enterprise for me, reviewing audio discs. I mean, how does one convey in words the music of an artist? Or, in the case of these two, how do I write … Continue reading
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Beyond the Pale’s Routes
Beyond the Pale, formed in 1998 in Toronto, is a young quintet making lively klezmer-based music. The fact that they’ve played more than 200 gigs in their three years together has paid off in a top-notch debut recording. Routes is … Continue reading
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Maria Kalaniemi & Sven Ahlbäck’s Ilmajousi / Luftstråk
Two musical innovators, Finnish accordionist Maria Kalaniemi and Swedish fiddler Sven Ahlbäck, have pooled their considerable talents to produce a recording of subtle delights. The 36-year-old Kalaniemi, who has top billing here, has rapidly risen to the top ranks of … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Rough Guide to Samba and Rough Guide to Merengue & Bachata
I have yet to encounter a Rough Guide collection that is less than excellent in terms of selection, production and presentation, and these two new CDs maintain the series’ tradition of quality music. Rough Guide to Samba Samba is subtitled … Continue reading
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Ardavan Kamkar’s Over the Wind
Ardavan Kamkar is a member of a large Iranian Kurdish musical family. In his early 30s, he has risen to prominence as a soloist on the santur, a Persian hammer dulcimer. Over the Wind, recorded in 1998 in Teheran, is … Continue reading
Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman’s Nankuru Naisa
Since Jin Jin, the previous project by Hirayasu and Brozman, was one of my favorite recordings of 2000, it was difficult to not approach their second release with too-high expectations. Jin Jin had a fresh, spontaneous and utterly charming aura … Continue reading
Cándido Fabré y su Banda’s La Habana Quiere Guarachar Contigo and Jóvenes Clasicos del Son’s Fruta Bomba
It’s not just veterans and pensioners like the Buena Vista Social Club and Los Jubilados who are making excellent Cuban music these days, as these two recordings from Tumi Music attest. Cándido Fabré is widely recognized from Latin America to … Continue reading
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Bag o’ Cats’ Out of the Bag
Out of the Bag is a mixed bag of loosely Celtic-based instrumental World music. This Scottish quintet blends a number of disparate musical elements into an effective musical melange. Elements in the mix include Indian strings and percussion, Scottish pipes, … Continue reading