By Reynard, on May 17th, 2013 I’m playing recorded music this afternoon as the Neverending Session took advantage of this warm May day to decamp to the Courtyard to play among the gathering of punters who are enjoying the weather too. Yes, that’s Drive the Cold Winter Away by The Horslips, a group which most folks don’t realize did some rather superb trad music. And yes, I know an Englishman by the name of John Playford composed that piece but it’s been adopted by Irish musos as if one of their own was responsible for it!
The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour is the autobiography of Liam Clancy, the youngest member of the Irish folk music group, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. If you’ve any interest in Irish music, you need to read this.
A crack Irish album from a Breton native? Alan Stivell‘s Brian Boru proves you don’t have to be Irish to make a great Irish album! Of course, Irish music flows from Irish culture and history so reading R.F. Foster’s The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland is an excellent work for you to read.
Next up is the Bothy Band, a most outstanding Irish band, and I will lead off with ‘Old Hag You Have Killed Me’ from their appearance at the Lisdoonvarna Folk Festival in the summer of 1976, as I think it’s one of their best tunes. I’ll follow that up with ‘Music in the Glen’ from their appearance at 1977 Sidmouth Folk Festival.
Speaking of old hag tunes, here’s a quote about them:
She looks like the wizened old crone in that painting Jilly did for Geordie when he got into this kick of learning fiddle tunes with the word ‘hag’ in the title: ‘the Hag in the Kiln,’ ‘Old Hag You Have Killed Me,’ ‘The Hag With the Money,’ and god knows how many more. Just like in the painting, she’s wizened and small and bent over and … dry. Like kindling, like the pages of an old book. Like she’s almost all used up. Hair thin, body thinner. but then you look into her eyes and they’re so alive it makes you feel a little dizzy.
It’s excerpted from Charles de Lint‘s ‘The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep’ story which is collected in Dreams Underfoot.
Likewise I suggest knowing William Butler Yeats better is a good idea as well. Start off with John Unterecker’s A Reader’s Guide to William Butler Yeats which gives you a well-rounded look at his verse; after that, Eily Kilgannon’s Myths and Magic of the Yeats Country which she says is about ‘The beautiful region of Ireland that includes Sligo and northwest Leitrim is rightly called the Yeats Country because it was the source of some of W. B. Yeats’ finest verse. He may have brought fame to it, but it gave poetry to him.’
Bring this conversation full circle is my last reading recommendation, to wit Breandan Breathnach‘s Folk Music and Dances of Ireland which is a slim volume you can read over several pints in the evening and gain a full knowledge of this subject.
Now some music to finish off. Hmmm, what to play? Ahhh, how about A Jig of Sorts by Nightnoise? Yes, that’ll do nicely!
Another stout for you?
By Cat Eldridge, on May 17th, 2013  Shadows Fall is set in Simon R. Green’s multiverse. All of Green’s fiction, and I mean all of it, from the Deathstalker space opera series to the new Secret Histories series, takes palace in the same multiverse. So characters from the Drinking Midnight Wine one-off novel show up in the Nightside series; a character here will in a few brief comments explain how key players who are Rodents of an Unusual Size in Drinking Midnight Wine came to be in that strange town; Giles Deathstalker will play a role in the Secret Histories series; and the importance of werewolf blood will show in the multiple stories. (Don’t ask — it’s literally a bloody story.) It’s obvious to me that Green has had a great deal of fun writing his complicated, intertwined stories over the past few decades. And Shadows Fall allows him to make very, very good use of all of the stories which have come before in Green’s sprawling universe.
We’ve reviewed this novel a long, long time ago so I’ll let Michael Jones who reviewed it tell you about it: ‘Shadows Fall is definitely one of Simon Green’s odder, more ambitious done-in-one books. Released a good fourteen years ago at this point, it’s an odd beast, reflecting an earlier style that defies easy description. Present are characters and organizations and concepts that will come back in later books, such as the Warriors of the Light and Bruin Bear, and the idea of overlapping genres; fantasy, science fiction, comic books, and children’s cartoons all mingle and interact in Shadows Fall, giving it an epic feel of anything goes. Also present are the bizarre ideas, catchy names, and evocative descriptions that can be found in just about any Simon Green book you care to name, from Lester Gold the Mystery Avenger, to Jack Fetch the silent (yet deadly) scarecrow. However, in a distinct change from the norm, Shadows Fall lacks the over-the-top uber-characters that populate his Nightside, Deathstalker, and other series. For all that Leonard Ash cannot die because he’s already dead, the Fae are scarier and nastier than anything alive, and James Hart wields unimaginable power, there’s a very strong sense of most characters as, well, human and vulnerable. And that’s not a bad thing at all. It’s oddly refreshing to see such normal characters, and ironic that they should exist in a town populated by faded legends and forgotten heroes.’
Shadows Fall is, along with , oone of the only two works of fiction set in his multiverse that are not part of a series. And until now, they were the only two works not produced as audioworks. Now Audible, one of my favorite sources for good things to listen to, in the guise of Audible Frontiers has produced both.
I hadn’t read this book in I’d guess five years, so I was ready for another encounter with it and I generally find that listening to a work I’ve read several times gives me a fresh perspective on it. Shadows Fall proved to be true to this belief.
Kevin Stillwell is the narrator here. His first credited acting job is on Star Trek: Voyager in 1997 where he played Moklor, a holographic Klingon in a program run by B’Elanna Torres in the Day of Honor episode, so he has proper sf credits to his name as in addition, done Steven Brust’s The Phoenix Guards and the Viscount of Adrilankha series, and Fritz Leiber’s The Ghost Light (a novel I’ve never heard of to my surprise), to name but a few of the genre works he’s narrated.
So how does he do here? Quite magnificently. Audioworks always make me listen to everything in a way that reading never quite does. I was catching details here that I overlooked when reading the novels, including references to the rest of the multiverse that I missed when reading it. Certainly that is due in large part to Stillwell nicely voicing each character, and there’s myriad characters here!, in a manner that catches the essence of that character.
I particularly like the dry, flat voice given to Leonard Ash, the walking dead man, and the fussy Victorian feel to Father Time. Oh and the Sea Goat sounds like the drunken, offensive being that he certainly is. None of which will make any sense to you until you listen to Shadows Fall which you certainly should!
Go here to order this superb work of fantasy. And science fiction. And horror…
By Gus the Estate Head Gardener, on May 16th, 2013 Dear Anna,
Imagine an old forest witch, a crone with a cackle and gnarled hands. Well Justina did one of those when she was here the first time. Alas the Troll proved more elusive in design. Much more elusive. And of course, this troll was not the vision of just Justina, the potter, but instead was created on a collective basis.
There aren’t many descriptions of them in Old Norse and what exist are more intent on describing their personality as in the Prose Edda: ‘Troll kalla mik trungl sjǫtrungnis, auðsug jǫtuns, élsólar bǫl, vilsinn vǫlu, vǫrð nafjarðar, hvélsveg himins – hvat’s troll nema þat’ which roughly translates as ‘They call me a troll, moon of the earth-Hrungnir, wealth sucker of the giant, destroyer of the storm-sun, beloved follower of the seeress, guardian of the “nafjord”, swallower of the sun: What’s a troll if not that?’ Other Old Norse sources note they are magical creatures with special skills, but that doesn’t say if that was good or evil. In J. R. R. Tolkien’s universe, trolls are large humanoids of great strength and poor intellect.
What they found with the help of Iain, who called on what he calls L-Space to ask private estate librarians in Norway to dig deep into their archives for folk material not commonly accessed by folklorists, was that they are dark and slow of movement and covered with a tangle of foliage, like a forested mountain brought to life. Now this of course added a whole new level of complexity to this project as most trolls under the bridge projects use a smooth looking design with almost no fine work. Justina however noted this actually made the project easier as the leaves, moss and such would make hiding the seams easier.
The first step was what is called a one sixth scale model of the troll-to-be. Now keep in mind that no one expected Justina to work full-time on this so she danced a lot, gossiped in the Pub while listening to the Neverending Session, spent hours reading in the Library, taught the Several Annies (and anyone else interested) basic and advanced pottery, and indeed, as I noted she did the first time, had a torrid romantic encounter, this time with one of the Several Annies.
That model went through, I think, at least a dozen iterations before it was considered right by just about everyone present here this Winter. It was indeed leafy, mossy, and similar to what one of Tolkien’s Ents might have looked like if it was far more stocky and a great deal shorter. (One of the models now lives in a museum in the home city of the Norwegian Several Annie who got the project going; Justine took one with her; and four got sold by us on behalf of her.) And so the project stood until after Candlemas as we agreed no one should would work on it during the Winter Holidays.
And that’s where I’ll the tale for now, as Chasing Fireflies, the contradance band that I’m calling for this coming weekend, wants to go over the list of dances they’re considering. Gossip has it that they’ve been intensely interested with the dances of John Garden, the Australian composer and Jane Austen scholar, so it’ll be interesting to see what they’ve come up with!
Affectionately, Gus
By Robert M. Tilendis, on May 15th, 2013 OK, a little bit about myths. Perhaps not so strangely, we have a fair number of works on the mythology of various peoples. Equally unsurprising is the number of these works devoted to the myths and folklore of the British Isles.
For example, take W. Y. Evans-Wentz’ The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries. Although somewhat dated, it says here, it does pull together a lot of folklore from the Celtic lands.
And as long as we’re going all Celtic, let’s take a look at some of the Irish myths and folktales as related in Mary McGarry’s Great Folk Tales of Old Ireland. You’re never going to understand the Irish until you know their stories, we’re told.
Of course, no discussion of Irish myth and folklore would be complete without William Butler Yeats — or maybe not. See what you think after you read our comments on his Mythologies.
Let’s take a slight detour for a look at a story filtered through the great Welsh cycle, The Mabinogion, namely Louise Lawrence’s The Earth Witch. It’s about a boy.
Broadening our scope a bit, we have a short commentary on Jane Yolen’s collection, Favorite Folktales from Around the World, which is just what it says it is.
And finally, an attempt to fill the shoes of the late Joseph W. Campbell — J. F. Beirlein’s Parallel Myths. Is it successful? Read the review.
There’s lots more in the bin (someone’s been at the Archives again), so we’ll be back soon.
By Gus the Estate Head Gardener, on May 14th, 2013 Dear Anna,
There are everything from ashrays (sea ghosts) to wulvers, a sort of werewolf but, alas, no trolls in Scotland. There is however now a splendidly ugly and rather large troll under the bridge over the river below the Mill Pond. How it got there is a story worth knowing which is why I’m telling you in this letter.
Several years ago, we had a potter in residence here, Justina, for an entire winter, during which she built a most magnificent kiln of a rather frightening size as she was interested in creating life sized men, women, and other creatures. Most are now in museums and private collections around the world but we kept several including the one of Robert Graves that lives in the Reading Room named after him. More than one visitor has been startled by it late at night while doing research as it seems to shift location by itself when they’re not looking. Or someone has an odd sense of what’s funny. It’s very fast, and quite strong!
But nothing she did was on the scale of what was contemplated by the Several Annie from Norway that decided the area under the Mill Pond bridge needed a troll. A full-sized troll to be precise, which meant it had to be created in sections given it would be fourteen feet tall and ten feet across its shoulders. So I had the Steward contact Justina and ask her if she’d like to be here for an extended winter contract. Not surprisingly, she was delighted.
She arrived in late October and set up a studio in the cottage she used years back. The Troll Under the Bridge project she figured would take ’till Candlemas at least. (I think she was looking forward to a long winter of conversations, music, contradances, good food, and reading.) Though she could’ve lived in the cottage, she asked if she could have one of the third floor rooms and the Steward agreed with a note of amusement in his voice. Did I mention she had an affair with one of the musicians the year she spent here?
Iain lost his entire current crop of Several Annies for an entire fortnight while they met with Justina to brainstorm this project. We had the clay needed on the Estate but a considerable amount of other supplies were needed that caused the Steward to become a whiter shade of pale, as a fourteen foot troll is best constructed of solid weather proof pieces and that required an even bigger kiln. Justina’s stay would likely be through Beltaine, at least as she openly admitted that this was going to a trick project with likely several spectacular failures before she and her crew got it right as she has an idea for it that would nake it look truly living.
Ahhh that was a knock on the door… I see I’m needed in the apiary right now as the lads are moving the hives out to the gardens for the growing season and I need to check over their preparations. I’ll finish the story in the next letter.
With affection. Gus
PS: You’ll find the books on the history of ravens in our folklore you wanted enclosed with this letter. As always, Iain grumbled when I checked them out so please be careful with them!
By Cat Eldridge, on May 13th, 2013  The overarching premise in the All Souls trilogy is that there are four intelligent and separate species on Earth: Humans, Demons, and Witches are warm-bloods, Vampires are cold-bloods. Humans and Witches reproduce by the usual way, Demons appear to be the equivalent of the mythical Fey children who are placed in the cribs of Humans in English folklore in our world, and Vampires, well you know how they are created.
At the heart of this trilogy, which started off with A Discovery of Witches, are Diana Bishop, a Witch whose parents were murdered when she was young, and Matthew de Clairmont, a geneticist with a passion for Darwin who is a fifteen-hundred-year-old Vampire. Now, keep in mind that there is a very ancient concordance that prohibits on pain of death any romantic relationship among the species in order to keep Humans from getting restless. Or at least that’s the story told.
At the end of A Discovery of Witches, Diana and Matthew are on the run from, well, just about everyone, save their families. So Matthew comes up with a clever solution: make use of Diana’s time-walking abilities as a Witch. So they walk back in time to 1590, landing first near Oxford before moving on to the de Clairmont estate in war-torn France.
The story really gets going when they settle into Elizabethan London, a world torn asunder by religion and sorcery. We also meet Matthew’s old friends, including Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh, and two characters named Gallowglass and Hamish. (Marlowe and Raleigh are part of the secretive School of Night.) Their mission in Elizabethan London is to locate an agreeable Witch to assist Diana in controlling her erratic but powerful talents, and to locate the much sought after Ashmole 782.
The real joy in hearing Shadow of Night is that Harkness has brought to vibrant life what London felt like in the age of Elizabeth the First in all its terrible beauty and overwhelming squalor, from the street markets to the houses of the powerful families who ruled society there. Interestingly, food and wine were the manner in which the setting was evoked, although food and wine are less important than historical features and characters are in this book. Harkness, like all writers, is less interested in the historical reality than she is in fleshing them out as characters, as you’ll discover with, say, Marlowe.
It’s a lovely, tale provided you’ve listened to the first book in the trilogy, and I’ll assume you have or you wouldn’t be reading these words. Jennifer Ikeda once again does a superb job of giving voice to each character here from the major characters down to minor ones that you would never notice if you passed them in the street in Elizabethan London.
And no, I won’t tell anymore about the story, as you don’t want me to do so! Suffice it to say that I’m very much looking forward to hearing the yet-to-be-released final novel, which apparently is still being written, to see how she wraps this fascinating story up, as true trilogies are rare indeed.
By Iain Nicholas Mackenzie, on May 12th, 2013 Ahhh, mannerpunk. It is combat with sharp but mannered words, not steel, but it still draws blood. The protagonists are not pitted against the usual monsters and invading armies that the reader finds in much fantasy, but rather their families and peers. The plot of a mannerpunk takes place within an insular society, and though duels may be fought over matters of honour, the chief weapons are one’s own words.
As Ellen Kushner said in an email, Mannerpunk is ‘A clever way of referring to Fantasy of Manners. FoM refers to work with roots in the social comedy of writers like Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and Georgette Heyer, rather than the heroic and mythic tales that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien and his followers. It is usually, though not always, urban rather than rural.’
Swordspoint, which starts with ‘Let the fairy-tale begin on a winter’s morning, then, with one drop of blood new-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as the single spot of claret on the lace cuff’, is the quintessential mannerpunk novel, and the one to start with if you want to see what mannerpunk is. As the reviewer notes: ‘Every once in a while, being a reviewer offers a special perk, whether it’s a new book by a favorite author, a new find who stands head and shoulders above the crowd, or the chance to take another look at an old favorite. So, when the Chief asked for a fresh look at Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint, I was more than happy to agree. Call it “mannerpunk,” call it “fantasy,” call it what you will, it is still one of the best examples of speculative fiction I’ve ever read.’
The Shadow of Albion, says our reviewer, ‘follows the adventures of Sarah Cunningham of nineteenth century Baltimore, Maryland who, while travelling to England, finds herself transported into an England with an alternative history and into the life of English socialite, the Marchioness of Roxbury. In this history, Charles II, rather than having been succeeded by his brother James, is succeeded by his son, the Duke of Monmouth, who has been proclaimed legitimate by Charles on his deathbed, as he confesses to marrying the Duke’s mother, Mistress Waters, while in exile. So the Stuart family rather than the Hanover hold the English throne. America is still a colony of England as there has never been any reason for a war, and magic still exists and is accepted by society. One element of history that has not changed is Napoleon Bonaparte still desires to take over the world.’
Next up is Steven Brust and Emma Bull”s Freedom & Necessity which, though not marketed as mannerpunk, has some of the best dialogue ever written involving manners and wit. Our reviewer notes ‘the book is that terror of English majors everywhere, an epistolary novel. Depending on how one classifies Bridget Jones’s Diary, the form hasn’t been used well in the genre since Stoker took it for a spin in Dracula, and the format itself is enough of a challenge for readers who were expecting a more straightforward narrative. On the other hand, the epistolary format allows for multiple perspectives on the events of the plot from all four of the main narrators, all of whom bring something unique to the table. A story told from any one of their viewpoints, or from an omniscient one, would take away much of the pleasure of unraveling the novel’s mysteries as the characters do so themselves. The joy of discovering what’s really going on is only part of the book’s enjoyment; the rest is in seeing how the characters do so in their own ways.’
My final recommendation is Susanna Clarke”s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, a book long enough to occupy you all summer. Once again, let’s listen to the reviewer: ‘Susanna Clarke’s novel is superb. There’s no other one-word summary for it. Much has been made already of the Austenesque aspects of her style, but it warrants saying again — the dialogue and the descriptors ring utterly, authentically Victorian. Much has also been made of the footnotes, some of which are short stories in their own right, and some running for several pages. (Not always, it should be noted, necessarily the same ones, though there is a strong correlation.) Both of these things are true, and bear repeating — as does the fact that Jane Austen is one of the bestselling authors of all time, and has not been out of print. One could do far worse than to borrow aspects from the best.’
Four mannerpunk novels, full of sharp wit, interesting characters, and fascinating settings. So brew up a pot of your favourite tea (mine is Lapsang souchong), settle into your favourite reading spot, and choose any of these wonderful reads. You won’t be disappointed!
By Cat Eldridge, on May 11th, 2013 Charles de Lint says, ‘It’s been another great year for readers and anyone who complains that there aren’t any good books out there anymore just isn’t paying attention. My problem is trying to find the time to read all the great titles I do want to read.
My favourite of the year has to be Alice Hoffman’s Green Angel (Scholastic), though her adult novel for this year, The Probable Future (Doubleday), is also a real winner. These are closely followed by The Parrot Trainer by Swain Wolfe (St. Martin’s Press) and The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Knopf).
I’ve also really been enjoying Holly Black’s collaboration with Tony DiTerlizzi on The Spiderwick Chronicles (Simon & Schuster) and Hannah’s Garden by Midori Snyder (Viking, 2002 — which, for those of you keeping track, is actually a somewhat different version of what would have been the fourth book in the Brian Froud Faerylands series).
What else? Well, Peter Straub and Dean Koontz showed us once again just how good they are with, respectively, lost boy lost girl (Random House) and Odd Thomas (Bantam). Greg Keyes reminded me why I can still enjoy high fantasy with The Briar King (Del Rey) and Charles Dickinson’s A Shortcut in Time (Forge) proved, as Niffenegger’s novel did, that there’s still innovation to be found in a time travel story.
And just to deviate from genre fiction for a moment, I have to thank Robert Crais and Andrew Vachss for so ably feeding my hardboiled fiction fix with their books The Last Detective (Doubleday), Only Child (Knopf), and The Getaway Man (Vintage Books); the latter two are by Vachss.
And finally, anyone who thinks YA fiction is too kiddie-lit for them, isn’t reading what’s out there. Many YA books are edgier and of far more interest (at least to me) than so-called adult fiction. These aren’t genre books either, but were particular favourites of mine for this year: Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn (Simon Pulse), Empress of the World by Sara Ryan (Speak), and Define ‘Normal’ by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown).
For more detailed descriptions of why these books appealed to me, many of them were discussed at longer length in my column Books to Look For which appears monthly in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It can be accessed on the Internet here.
Happy holidays folks.’
By Cat Eldridge, on May 10th, 2013  My absolute favorite series from GraphicAudio is Alex Archer’s Rogue Angel series. It’s fun, fast-paced, and based just enough on the real world to make me wonder if the story being told could have actually happened. Warning: spoilers, lots of them, are in this review.
Rogue Angel is an ongoing paperback series of pulp novels published every other month since July 2006 by Harlequin Publishing’s Gold Eagle division and written under the house name of Alex Archer, a practice used in pulp publishing since at least the 1920s! The first eight novels were written by Victor Milan and Mel Odom with new writers joining the series starting with book nine including Jon Merz and Joseph Nassise. As usual with pulp series, there are a lot of books and that has meant GraphicAudio has a lot of source material to work with — neatly explaining why there are thirty-six Rogue Angel audiobooks thus far!
Other than Annja, our globe trotting archaeologist, avenger of wrongs using the Sword of Joan of Arc, and, believe it or not, a host on TV’s Chasing History’s Monsters series (where she does not bare her tits, unlike the other hostess, who admittedly has much higher ratings that Annja), there are apparently only four ongoing characters — one is the five hundred year old immortal Roux, now somewhat reluctant mentor of Annja and a failed protector of Joan; fellow immortal Garin Braden, who was Roux’s apprentice five hundred years ago and now is his enemy more or less; the ever annoying Doug Morrell, Annja’s producer at Chasing History’s Monsters, and Bart McGilley, a NYPD detective and an old friend of Annja’s. (Not a love interest though. Though there is sex in her life, mostly offstage.) The voice characterization of the principal characters is excellent, as I expected from other GraphicAudio series I’ve listened to, and secondary characters are generally sketched out well too.
City of Swords is the most chilling of the adventures to date, as it centers on Christian terrorism. Dog-headed men are sighted by tourists and locals in the French city of Avignon. Annja Creed finds herself repeatedly and violently targeted by vicious mercenaries who want her sword. She eventually traces these attacks back to their source, which is self-professed descendant of King Charlemagne who is convinced that if he collects mankind’s most precious and holy swords, he can fulfill his medieval ancestor’s failed goal to build the City of God.
The swords are for his new crusaders, men and women, who will do what he wants up to and including mass murder. What he’s doing is far worse than merely collecting swords of long-dead Christian warriors because he’s intent, by means most foul, to build Charlemagne’s legendary, never-completed City of God. And he’s determined to purify the city of Avignon of all infidels, be they Muslims, Buddhists, Scientologists, or even Christians of sects that he disapproves of — which appears to be all of them.
City of Swords has a very high cringe factor as regards our heroine. In the process of stopping our mad Christian warrior, she will be hurt severely, imprisoned, and just plain tortured. All for the possession of a sword that she cannot give them.
The stakes are higher here than usual and I think this is the first Rogue Angel adventure where Annja Creed is truly a heroine fighting for justice against a truly evil person, as many of the previous adventures involve foes who are simply banal in their crimes. Not so here, and I’m very impressed by how the writer handled her in this outing. She was angry, frustrated, and genuinely scared. Damn fine writing.
Now I will turn to the audio production itself. This work was adapted, not abridged as audiobooks used to be, for GraphicAudio by Casey Jones, who has adapted quite a few of the works that this company has done. It is superbly directed by Nanette Savard. Nanette Savard also is a voice actor in many of the GraphicAudio works. City of Swords stars Colleen Delany, Richard Rohan, James Konicek, Kimberly Gilbert, Matthew Bassett, Steven Carpenter, Allison Thomas, Bradley Smith, Christopher Sheeren, Danny Gavigan, David Coyne, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eric Messner, Evan Casey, Jonathan Watkins, Ken Jackson, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Nick Depinto, Nora Achrati, Thomas Keegan, Tim Getman And Yasmin Tuazon. I remember those names from the GraphicAudio adaptations of Simon R. Green’s Deathstalker and Forest Kingdom series, two other excellent series.
As I expected, all the voice work here was spot-on, but I was really amazed once again by the scene-setting background noises, which allowed for a more nuanced, more intimate soundscape than one normally gets in an audio production. Sword fights, to give an obvious example, are hard to do right but here each fight has a different texture; likewise the sound of in-close fighting often falls flat, but here there is a properly claustrophobic feel to one of the more violent encounters which take place.
Go here to order this most superb production!
By Leona Wisoker, on May 10th, 2013 At times, sorting out the Archives here at Sleeping Hedgehog and Green Man Review can feel like a cross between an archeological endeavor and a whirlwind trip around the world. And of course, L-space is always a risky maze in and of itself; but that just makes the adventure all the more fun! A recent stroll through to brush off a few of our older reviews unearthed some wondrous gems: mainly music, but two book reviews were also found. Each one was gently cleaned and is now set in a more prominent spot for your enjoyment.
On the front shelf for our loyal patrons, then, is the following array:
Stemmenes Skygge, an album by Kirsten Braten Berg, Marilyn Mazur, and Lena Willemark. This album, “initially conceived as a project for Norway’s most prolific jazz festival in Molde,” features a huge whack of award-winning talent and struck the reviewer as both “terrifying” and “difficult”–but the skill of the performers pulls it together well.
An arguably easier title to pronounce sits beside it: Sceni, by KlezRoym. This one hops us from Norway to the Mediterranean, but never fear, there’s a link in that both albums involve jazz–as the reviewer notes, ”all klezmer, being the hybrid genre that it is, has a little Gypsy, a little jazz, and maybe a little Mediterranean harmony.” And what KlezRoym does with those ingredients is to “add their own mixture of moxy, imagination, and excellent improvisational skills to the music.” Sound interesting? Read the full review here.
Moving sideways from klezmer to Rom, we have Maskarada, by Taraf de Haidouks; the reviewer notes of this CD that “While most of their music is relentlessly upbeat to the point of being frenetic, Maskarada marks a slight departure from the Tarafs’ usual offerings.” Read on to find out more.
The last of the CDs on the shelf this time around involve, once more, jazz from Northern Europe; we have a double review of two CDs from the same producer, Amigo Musik. Of the first, the reviewer says, “Koyo is the sort of disk that makes me want to fly to Stockholm, find out where Oddjob is playing, and book a table near the stage for every night they’re booked.” If that isn’t high enough praise, we don’t know what is! And the second feature in this review covers an interesting take on jazz: an all-percussion band called Peaux that “ defies easy categorization.” Read the full review here to find out more.
Moving away from music now, we have two book reviews on display: both take us far from Northern Europe, deep into the Middle East. Cairo Modern, by Naguib Mahfouz, was first published in Arabic in 1945. How has it translated to English, and how “modern” does it seem today? Read on to find out.
Last of all we have another double review, and these books share not a publisher but something far more interesting: one book, The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, was written by a gentleman named James Morier. The other, Ottoman and Persian Odysseys, published considerably later, is a record of the correspondence between James and his two brothers, all of whom served as diplomats. Read the full review of these two volumes here, and follow the reviewer on a ”long literary journey that spans several centuries and traverses the Silk Road and a few more obscure routes”.
When you’re ready to come back and put your feet up in your own comfy chair again, check in to see what reviews we’ve posted since you left…we’re sure to have more journeys in store for you!
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- Anomynous, Seamus Heaney, translator, and Daniel Donoghue, editor: Beowulf: A Verse Translation
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- Carmen Blacker and Hilda Ellis Davidson, eds.: Women & Tradition: A Neglected Group of Folklorists
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- Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner (editors): Spectrum 12: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
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- Charles Ardai: Fifty-to-One
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- Charles de Lint (author) and Brian Froud (illustrator): The Wild Wood
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- Charlotte Crofts: Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter’s Writing for Radio, Film and Television
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- Chris D.: Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film
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- Christiane Bird: A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan / Kevin McKiernan: The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland
- Christopher Fowler: Bryant & May On The Loose
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- Christopher Fowler: Roofworld
- Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner and Stanley Wiater: The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King
- Christy Moore: One Voice: My Life in Song
- Clare Walker Leslie and Frank E. Gerace: The Ancient Celtic Festivals and How We Celebrate Them Today
- Clare Walker Leslie and Frank E. Gerace: The Ancient Celtic Festivals and How We Celebrate Them Today
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- Colin Woodard: The Republic of Pirates
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- Contemplating the Wizard of Oz
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- David Colbert: The Magical Worlds of The Lord of the Rings
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- David Gay and Stephen R. Reimer (eds.): Locating the Past/Discovering the Present: Perspectives on Religion, Culture, and Marginality
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- Deborah Grabien: The Haunted Ballad series
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- Donald E. Morese and Kalman Matolcsy (editors): The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock: Critical Essays on the Fiction
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- Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine: Last Chance to See
- Drew Friedman: Old Jewish Comedians
- Dune / Frank Herbert’s Dune
- Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales
- Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Other Poetry
- Dylan Thomas: Dylan Thomas Unabridged: The Caedmon Collection
- E. C. Segar: POPEYE: Volume One: “I Yam What I Yam!”
- Earl F. Bargainnier: The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie
- Ed Gorman and Martin Greenberg (editors): Once Upon a Crime
- Edmund de Waal: The Hare with Amber Eyes
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- Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (editors): Snow White, Blood Red
- Ellen Datlow (editor): Hauntings
- Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas: Haunted Legends
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- Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors): Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
- Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors): Silver Birch, Blood Moon
- Ellen Kushner: Swordspoint
- Ellen Kushner: Swordspoint audiobook
- Ellen Kushner: The Golden Dreydl
- Ellis Peters: Black Is the Colour of My True-love’s Heart
- Ellis Peters: The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
- Emily E. Auger: Tarot and Other Meditation Decks: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Typology
- Emma Bull and Susan Gaber: The Princess and the Lord of Night
- Emma Bull and Will Shetterly: War for the Oaks screenplay
- Emma Bull interview
- Emma Bull: War for the Oaks
- Erica Jong: Witches
- Erik Larson: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
- Erin Hart: Haunted Ground
- Ernest Hemingway (Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming, eds.): Under Kilimanjaro
- Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger: Travellers’ Songs From England and Scotland
- Farah Mendlesohn: Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition and Children’s Literature
- Farah Mendlesohn: Rhetorics of Fantasy
- Fernanda Eberstadt: Little Money Street
- Francis James Child (editor): The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
- Frank Gannon: Midlife Irish
- Frank Joseph (editor): Sacred Sites Of The West: A Guide To Mystical Centers
- Gage Averill: Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony
- Garry Freeman: The Bootleg Guide
- George Alec Effinger: When Gravity Fails / A Fire in the Sun / The Exile Kiss
- George Emmerson: A Social History of Scottish Dance / Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String: a history of Scottish dance music
- George Khoury and Friends: The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore
- Gerald MacLean: The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720 / Geoffrey Nash: From Empire to Orient: Travellers to the Middle East, 1830-1926
- Gianni Guadalupi: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
- Gillian Bradshaw: The Wolf Hunt
- Gils van Hensbergen: Guernica: the Biography of a Twentieth Century Icon
- Giorgia Grilli: Myth, Symbol and Meaning in Mary Poppins: the Governess as Provocateur/Valerie Lawson: Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers
- Glenn Yeffeth (editor): Farscape Forever!
- Gordon Hall Gerould: The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story
- Gordon Van Gelder (editor): Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction On Climate Change
- Graham Anderson: King Arthur in Antiquity
- Greg Boardman (editor): Here’s to Every Country Dancer: The Music Of Dudley Laufman / Richard Nevell: A Time To Dance: American Country Dancing From Hornpipes To Hot Hash
- H. P. Lovecraft and S. T. Joshi: The Annotated Supernatural Horror In Literature
- Hans Christian Andersen (writer) and Diana Crone and Jeffrey Frank (editors): The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen
- Hans Christian Andersen (writer) and Maria Tatar (editor): The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen
- Hans Christian Andersen, Jackie Wullschlager (ed.): Fairy Tales
- Harold Bloom: Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
- Haruki Murakami: 1Q84
- Heather O’Donoghue: From Asgard to Valhalla: The
Remarkable History of the Norse Myths
- Helen Litton: Irish Rebellions 1798 – 1916: An Illustrated History
- Helen Ward: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
- Henrietta Branford: Fire, Bed & Bone / Gordon Van Gelder (editor): One Lamp
- Henry Glassie: All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming
- Henry McKenzie Johnston: Ottoman and Persian Odysseys / James Morier: The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
- Hideo Nitta: The Manga Guide to Physics
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- Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
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- Ian McDonald: River of Gods
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- Ian Rankin: Exit Music
- Iona and Peter Opie (compilers): The Classic Fairy Tales
- J. F. Beirlein: Parallel Myths
- J. R. R. Tolkien (text) and Douglas Anderson (annotations): The Annotated Hobbit
- J. Sydney Jones: The Silence
- J.M. Bedell: Hildur, Queen of the Elves and Other Icelandic Legends
- J.R.R. Tolkien (ed. by Michael Drout): Beowulf and the Critics
- J.R.R. Tolkien (writer) and Christopher Tolkien (editor): The History of Middle-earth
- Jack McCarthy and Danis Rose: Joyce’s Dublin: A Walking Guide to Ulysses
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- Jack Vance: Dangerous Ways
- Jack Vance: Desperate Days
- Jack Zipes: Creative Storytelling: Building Community, Changing Lives
- Jack Zipes: Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller
- Jack Zipes: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry
- Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud (editors): A Dictionary of English Folklore
- Jacqueline Winspear: A Lesson in Secrets
- Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs / Birds of a Feather / Pardonable Lies
- James Fleming: White Blood
- James Fleming: White Blood
- James Frankel (editor) and Patti Perret (photographer): The Faces of Fantasy
- James G. Leyburn: The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
- James Gunn and Matthew Candelaria (editors): Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction
- James Hamilton: Arthur Rackham: a life with illustrations
- James Joyce: Dubliners Unabridged
- James Morrow: The Last Witchfinder: A Novel
- James P. Blaylock: The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs
- James P. Blaylock: The Aylesford Skull
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- James Stoddard: The Evenmere novels
- James Stoddard: The High House / The False House
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- Jane Louise Curry: Robin Hood and his Merry Men / Robin Hood in the Greenwood
- Jane Yolen and Susan Guevara: Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
- Jane Yolen, editor: Favorite Folktales From Around the World
- Jane Yolen: Once Upon a Time (She Said)
- Jane Yolen: Ring Out! A Book of Bells
- Jane Yolen: Take Joy: A Book for Writers
- Janet Catherine Berlo: Quilting Lessons
- Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny (editors): Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings Film Trilogy
- Jason Fisher (Ed): Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays
- Jason Goodwin: The Janissary Tree
- Jasper Fforde: One of Our Thursdays is Missing
- Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, John Scalzi, and Karl Schroeder (writers) and Michael Hogan, Scott Brick, Kandyse McClure, Alessandro Juliani, and Stefan Rudnicki (narrators), and John Scalzi (editor): METAtropolis
- Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, John Scalzi, and Karl Schroeder (writers) and John Scalzi (editor): METAtropolis
- Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Voices of Vision
- Jean A. Boyd: The Jazz of the Southwest
- Jean Markale: The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween
- Jean-Marie Déguignet, Bernez Rouz, and Linda Asher: Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
- Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson (editors): The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales
- Jeff Evans: Midsomer Murders: The Making of an English Crime Classic
- Jeff Rackham: The Rag & Bone Shop
- Jeff Siegel: The American Detective: An Illustrated History
- Jennifer Brozek: Industry Talk
- Jennifer Crusie (editor): Flirting With Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece
- Jennifer Roberson: Lady of Sherwood
- Jennifer Stevenson: Best of 2010: ZBS Media
- Jeri Westerson: Veil of Lies / Serpent in the Thorns
- Jerry Weist: Bradbury, An Illustrated Life: A Journey to Far Metaphor
- Jess Nevins: The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
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- Jo Walton: Ha’Penny
- Jo Walton: Half a Crown
- Joan Greene: A Chicago Tradition: Hotels and Hospitality / Marshall Field’s Food and Fashion
- Joan Hoff and Marian Yeates: The Cooper’s Wife is Missing
- Jody Rosen: White Christmas: The Story of an American Song
- Joe Nazarro: The Creatures of Farscape: Inside Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
- John Benson and Laura Ugolini (editors): A Nation of Shopkeepers:
Five Centuries of British Retailing
- John Berendt: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- John Berger: Into Their Labours trilogy
- John Clute and John Grant: The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
- John Clute: The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror
- John Fowles: The Collector
- John Gardner: Grendel
- John Garth: Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
- John Greenleigh and Rosalind Rosoff Beimler: The Days of the Dead: Mexico’s Festival of Communion with the Departed
- John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly (editors): Kafkaesque
- John Langstaff, George Emlen, and Patrick Swanson: Celebrate the Winter: Winter Solstice Celebrations for Schools & Communities
- John Loesberg: Traditional Folksongs & Ballads of Scotland, Vols. 1-3
- John Matthews and Caitlin Matthews: The Winter Solstice: The Sacred Traditions of Christmas
- John Matthews: The Summer Solstice
- John Miles Foley: Teaching Oral Traditions
- John Mortimer: A Rumpole Christmas
- John Unterecker: A Reader’s Guide to William Butler Yeats
- John W. Stamper: North Michigan Avenue / Jay Pridmore: Soldier Field
- Jonathan Lethem: Fear of Music
- Jonathan R. Eller and William F. Touponce: Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction
- Joseph McCabe: Hanging Out With the Dream King: Conversations with Neil Gaiman
- Joseph W. Campbell: The Hero With A Thousand Faces
- Judith Tick: Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer’s Search for American Music
- Judy K. Morris: Writing Fiction for Children: Stories Only You Can Tell
- Juha Y. Pentikainen: Kalevala Mythology: Expanded Edition
- Julian Dawson: and on piano… Nicky Hopkins: The Extraordinary Life of Rock’s Greatest Session Man
- Julian Fellows: The Shooting Script: Gosford Park
- Kage Baker (writer) and Kathleen Bartholomew (editor): Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Trainwrecks of the Silent Screen
- Kage Baker on Hans Christian Andersen
- Karen Desrosiers, Laurel Lloyd Earnshaw, Charlene Pollano, Deborah Regan, and Susan Wereska, (writers): A Group of One’s Own: Nurturing the Woman Writer
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon: Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide
- Karen Harper: The Queene’s Christmas
- Karen Wynn Fonstad: The Atlas of Middle-Earth
- Kate Bernheimer: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
- Kate Flora: Playing God
- Kate Wilhelm: Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop
- Katharine Briggs: The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
- Kazuhiro Fujitaki: The Manga Guide to Electricity
- Kenneth J. Bindas: All of This Music Belongs to the Nation
- Kevin Binfield (editor): Writings of the Luddites
- Kevin R. Kosar: Whiskey: A Global History
- Kinuko Craft (illustrator and commentary): Kinuko Craft: Drawings & Paintings
- L. Frank Baum: The Complete Wizard of Oz
- Lajos Zilahy: The Dukays
- Larry Tye: Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Superhero
- Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate — A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
- Laura Miller: Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
- Laura Shamas: We Three — The Mythology of Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: The Age of Homespun
- Lawrence Block and Donald E. Westlake: Hellcats and Honeygirls
- Lawrence Schimel: Fairy Tales for Writers/Charles Ardai: The Good-Neighbor Policy: A Double-Cross in Double Dactyls
- Leon Carre: Tarot of the Thousand and One Nights
- Leonard Marcus (editor): The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy
- Leslie Alcock: Arthur’s Britain
- Leslie Dunton-Downer and Alan Riding: Essential Shakespeare Handbook
- Linda Bank Downs: Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals
- Lisa Croll Di Dio: Sherwood Forest
- Liza Chu: Dim Sum: A Survival Guide
- Liza Dalby: East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons
- Lonely Planet’s 1000 Ultimate Sights
- Lonely Planet: Great Journeys: Travel the World’s Most Spectacular Routes
- Lord Dunsany: The Collected Jorkens
- Loren D. Estleman: Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula
- Lorraine Janzen Kooistra: Christina Rossetti and Illustration
- Louis de Bernières: Birds without Wings
- Louise Borden: The Journey that Saved Curious George
- Louise Lawrence: The Earth Witch
- Lynn Rubright: Beyond the Beanstalk: Interdisciplinary Learning through Storytelling
- Lynn Sheene: The Last Time I Saw Paris
- Maartin Allcock (transcriber): The Complete Sandy Denny Songbook
- Manly Wade Wellman: After Dark
- Marc Aronson: John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise
- Margaret Atwood: In Other Worlds – SF and the Human Imagination
- Margaret Lane: The Tale of Beatrix Potter
- Margaret Wurtele: The Golden Hour
- Margery Allingham: The Tiger in the Smoke
- Maria Tatar (editor and translator): The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
- Maria Tatar, ed.: The Annotated Brothers Grimm
- Maria Tatar: Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
- Marina Warner: Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Doubling the Self
- Marina Warner: The Leto Bundle
- Marion Dane Bauer (text) and Trina Schart Hyman (illustration): Ghost Eye
- Mark Helprin: Freddy and Fredericka
- Mark I. West: A Children’s Literature Tour of Great Britain
- Mark Kurlansky: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
- Mark Wilkinson: Shadowplay
- Martin Greenberg and Ed Gorman (editors): The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction
- Mary McGarry, editor: Great Folk Tales of Old Ireland
- Mary Renault: Fire from Heaven/The Persian Boy/Funeral Games
- Mary Renault: The Last of the Wine
- Masaharu Takemura: The Manga Guide to Biochemistry
- Matt Warner: Horror Isn’t a Four-Letter Word
- Maureen F. McHugh: After the Apocalypse
- Maureen Waller: London 1945: Life in the Debris of War
- Maurice Sendak (illustrations): The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present
- Meinrad Craighead: Crow Mother and the Dog God, a Retrospective
- Meinrad Craighead: Meinrad Craighead: Crow Mother and the Dog God, a Retrospective
- Melanie Rehak: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew And The Women Who Created Her
- Melissa Croteau and Carolyn Jess-Cooke (editors): Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations
- Mercedes Lackey (editor): Mapping the World of Harry Potter
- Mervyn Peake: The Gormenghast Trilogy
- Michael Babcock: Susan Seddon Boulet: A Retrospective
- Michael Brander (musical arrangements by Jimmie Macgregor): Scottish & Border Battles & Ballads
- Michael Brocken: The British Folk Revival, 1944-2002
- Michael Chabon: Summerland
- Michael Gruber: The Book of Air & Shadows / The Forgery of Venus
- Michael J. King: Lobster
- Michael Pearce: The Mamur Zapt & The Return of the Carpet /mThe Night of the Dog: A Mamur Zapt Mystery / The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous / The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind / The Girl in the Nile: A Mamur Zapt Mystery
- Michael Streissguth: Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece
- Michelle Lovric: The Floating Book
- Michio Kaku: Physics of the Future
- Mick Moloney: Far from the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish-American Immigration through Song
- Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden: Baltimore: or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire)
- Mike Resnick: Dog in the Manger
- Miklos Vamos: The Book of Fathers
- Monique Charlesworth: The Children’s War
- Morgan Llywellyn: 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion
- Mort Castle (editor): On Writing Horror: A Handbook by The Horror Writers Association
- Muriel Rukeyser: The Orgy
- Murray L. Eiland, Jr. and Murray Eiland, III: Oriental Carpets: A Complete Guide
- Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo Modern
- Nancy Springer: Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest / Lionclaw: A Tale of Rowan Hood
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- On The Mabinogion and Welsh Stories
- Orlando Figes: Natasa’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
- Otto Penzler (editor): The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
- Otto Penzler (editor): The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
- Owen Sheers: Resistance
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- Pamela S. Gates, Susan B. Steffel, and Francis J. Molson (editors): Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults
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- Patricia Friedberg: 21 Aldgate / Evelyn Toynton: The Oriental Wife
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- Phil Hornshaw & Nick Hurwitch: So You Created A Wormhole: The Time Traveler’s Guide To Time Travel
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- R. F. Foster: Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000
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- Robin Hood: Two Studies of the English Outlaw
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- ▶Edibles
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- Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations: Iceland Special Edition
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- Bali’s Best Candies: Latte, Espresso, and Tea
- Barbara Ketcham Wheaton: Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789
- Barbara Swell: The Lost Art of Pie Making Made Easy
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- Betina J. Wittels and Robert Hermesch: Absinthe: Sip of Seduction: a Contemporary Guide
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- Chocolove: A Three Bar Review
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- Col. Joe Nickell: The Kentucky Mint Julep / David W. Maurer: Kentucky Moonshine
- Dagoba Chocolates: A Review
- Daniel Karaczun: Out of This Kitchen: a History of the Ethnic Groups and Their Foods in Steel Valley
- David Ingle: The Bacchanalian Tradition in British Isles Songs, 1600-1900
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- Divine Chocolate – Morally superior, epicurially average.
- E. Guittard Chocolates
- Elevenses
- Elizabeth Andoh: Kansha: Celebrating Japan’s Vegan and Vegetarian Traditions
- Elizabeth Bear and the Stockpot
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- Equal Exchange: Three Chocolates
- Evan McHugh: Pint-Sized Ireland
- Fearless Chocolate
- Fruit for Breakfast (with chocolate)
- Garrett Oliver: The Brewmaster’s Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food
- Good eating on the Fourth of July
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- Gwyneth Jones on chestnuts
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- Ivan Day: Ice Cream
- Jane Yolen, Heidi E.Y. Stemple, and Philippe Béha: Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters
- Jennifer Stevenson’s Comfort Food
- Jennifer Stevenson’s St. Gildas Day breakfast
- Jeremy Jackson: The Cornbread Book
- Jessica Warner: Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
- Judie Spours: Cakes and Ales
- Judith M. Bennett: Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England
- Kage Baker on soul cakes
- Ken Wells: Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture in America
- Kicking Horse Coffee
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- Kopali Organics: Chocolate Covered Bananas
- Laura Calder: French Food at Home
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- Lesley Chamberlain: The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe
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- Lindt Excellence: Three Chocolates
- Lojo Russo’s cocoa recipe
- Louise DeSalvo and Edvige Giunta ( editors): The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture
- Madeleine Pelner Cosman: Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony
- Magpie Lane: A Taste of Ale
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- Max McCalman and David Gibbons: Mastering Cheese
- Mrs. Ware prepares a eventide meal
- Mushroom hunting
- Nancy Griffin: Making Whoopies: The Official Whoopie Pie Book
- Nancy Harmon Jenkins: The Essential Mediterranean
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- Nicolle Aimee Meyer and Amanda Pilar Smith: Paris in a Basket: Markets — the Food, the People
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- Nordic Chocolates: Two Chocolate Candies from Scandinavia
- Novare Res Bier Café / Nøgne Ø Imperial Stout
- Ococoa Butter Cups – 9 Piece Box
- Of Winter Breakfast We Speak
- OR Melling as GMR barkeep: part 1
- OR Melling as GMR barkeep: part 2
- Out On a Limb Community-Supported Agriculture: Apples!!
- Patricia Wells: The Paris Cookbook
- Pliny the Elder – Russian River Brewing Company
- Poppy Z. Brite: Liquor
- R. Winston Guthrie and James F. Thompson: A Taste For Absinthe
- Read Them and Eat: A Food Porn Site Worth Visiting. Really. Truly.
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Candy: A Guilty Pleasure
- Ritter Sport: Three Chocolates
- Rowan Jacobsen: American Terroir
- Sara Perry: The Tea Deck
- Scharffen Berger Chocolates
- Seasonal musings by a number of folk
- Simon McKie: Making Craft Cider: A Ciderist’s Guide
- Starbucks Chocolate: Milk, Dark, & Dark with VIA
- Strawberries! More strawberries!
- Summer ales: Some opinions
- Suzanne Rodriguez-Hunter: Found Meals of the Lost Generation
- Taza Chocolate: Chocolate Mexicano Discs
- The Two Fat Ladies: The Complete Series Collection
- Three Varieties of Kettle Cuisine Soup
- Trader’s Joe’s Organic Chocolates
- Turkish coffee
- Turkish Coffee (A Culinary Tale)
- Virginia Scott Jenkins: Bananas: An American History
- Virginia Scott Jenkins: Bananas: An American History
- Vosges Haut-Chocolat
- W. Scott Haine: The World of the Paris Cafe: Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914
- Xocolatl de David
- ▶Film
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- A Holiday Hamper
- Action figures: Roald Dahl: The Gremlins: The Lost Walt Disney Production
- All in the Cards: The Unpredictable History of Tarot and Cartomancy
- Anerca: Figures of Speech Theatre: St. Lawrence Arts & Community Center, Portland, Maine, USA, October 27, 2005
- Apple: iPad 2010
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- Brian Froud and Jessica Macbeth: The Faeries’ Oracle
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- Folkmanis Puppets: Little Hedgehog
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- Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood (editors): Slightly Foxed, Vol. 1-4
- Guido Zibordi Marchesi: Bruegel Tarot
- I-Con 30
- Johnny Cunningham and others: peter & wendy
- Jonna Carter Fonda: Gemavie and the Sky Dragon
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- Knit one, purl two…
- Local 564 of the Ancient and Venerable Guild of St. Nicholas
- Maine Festival
- My Top Ten Tarot Decks
- Neverwhere: The Play
- New Writings 2011: Elizabeth Bear
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- New York Comic Con 2011
- Piggery Jokery / Punch & Judy
- Robert M. Tilendis on Reviewing
- Tam Lin: The Producers Club, New York, New York, USA
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- ▶Graphic Lit
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- Adam Beechen, Ryan Benjamin, and John Stanisci: Batman Beyond: Industrial Revolution
- Adam Glass, et al.: Suicide Squad, Volume 1: Kicked in the Teeth
- Alan Moore and David Lloyd: V for Vendetta
- Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell: From Hell
- Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume II
- Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
- Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / Jess Nevins: Heroes and Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie: Lost Girls
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- Alan Moore, Kevin O’Neill: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen — Century: 1910
- Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben, Dan Day, and Rick Veitch: Saga of the Swamp Thing — Book One
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- Andy Diggle and Jock: Green Arrow: Year One
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- Art Spiegelman: Maus II, And Here My Troubles Began
- Art Spiegelman: Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Vol. I, My Father Bleeds History
- Bill Willingham and Charles Vess, et al.: Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
- Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham: Fables: Witches
- Bill Willingham and Paul Guinan: Proposition Player
- Bill Willingham and Steve Leialoha: Fables: The Dark Ages
- Bill Willingham et alia: Fables: Cubs in Toyland
- Bill Willingham, Charles Vess, et al.: Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
- Bill Willingham, et al.: Fables 100
- Bill Willingham, et al.: Fables 15: Rose Red
- Bill Willingham, et al.: Fables: Homelands/Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days)
- Bill Willingham, et al.: Fables: Legends in Exile/Legends: Animal Farm
- Bill Willingham, et al.: Fables: Storybook Love/Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers/Fables:The Mean Seasons
- Bill Willingham, Fables, The Deluxe Edition: Book One
- Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Aaron Alexovich, and Andrew Pepoy: Fables: The Good Prince
- Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, and James Jean: Fables Seventy-Five
- Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Michael Allred, and Andrew Pepoy: Fables: Sons of Empire
- Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Niko Henrichon, and Andrew Pepoy: Fables: War and Pieces
- Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Shawn McManus, and Andrew Pepoy: Fables: Wolves
- Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Mark Buckingham, et al, Fables: The Great Fables Crossover
- Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins and Andrew Pepoy: Jack of Fables: The (Nearly) Great Escape/Jack of Fables: Jack of Hearts
- Bill Willingham: Fables
- Bill Willingham: Bad Doings & Big Ideas
- Bill Willingham: Fables: Inherit the Wind
- Bill Willingham: Fables: Super Team
- Bill Willingham: Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland
- Brad Meltzer, Rags Morales, and Michael Bair: Identity Crisis
- Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso: 100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call
- Brian Wood and David Gianfelice: Northlanders, Book One: Sven the Returned
- Charles Vess: The Book of Ballads
- Chip Kidd (writer) and Dave Taylor (artist): Batman: Death By Design
- Chris Roberson and Chrissie Zullo: Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love
- Christopher Fowler and Keith Page): The Casebook of Bryant & May
- Christopher Moore, Ian Corson, and Jennyson Rosero: The Griff
- Craig Thompson: Habibi
- Dan Curtis Johnson and JH Williams III: Chase
- Danny Brilson, et al.: Red Menace
- David Petersen: Mouse Guard: Fall 1152
- David Wohl, Christina Z, and Paul Jenkins (writers) and Michael Turner, Randy Green, and Keu Cha (artists): Tomb Raider Compendium
- David Wohl, Christina Z, Paul Jenkins (writers); Michael Turner, Randy Green, Keu Cha (artists): Tomb Raider Compendium
- Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso: A Sickness in the Family
- Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams: Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Vols. One and Two
- Duncan Rouleau: Metal Men
- Ed Brubaker, Bryan Talbot, and Steve Leialoha: The Dead Boy Detectives
- Eddie Campbell: The Black Diamond Detective Agency
- Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá: Daytripper
- Fred Van Lente and Dennis Calero: X-Men Noir: Mark of Cain
- Futaro Yamada and Masaki Segawa: Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls, Vols. 1-5
- Fuyumi Ono: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow
- G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker: Cairo
- Gail Simone and J. Calafiore: Secret Six: The Darkest House
- Gail Simone and Neil Googe: Welcome to Tranquility — Volume One and Volume Two
- Gail Simone, Dale Eaglesham, and Val Seimeks: Villains United
- Gail Simone, et al.: Secret Six
- Gail Simone, et al.: Secret Six: Cats in the Cradle/Secret Six: The Reptile Brain
- Gail Simone, et al.: Secret Six: Depths
- Gail Simone, John Ostrander, and J. Calafiore: Secret Six: Danse Macabre
- Gareth Hinds: Beowulf
- Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon: Preacher: All Hell’s A-Coming (with John McCrea)/Alamo
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- Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis, et al.: Blackest Night/Geoff Johns, Peter J. Tomasi, et al.: Brightest Day, Vol. 1
- George Herriman: Krazy & Ignatz: The Kat Who Walked In Beauty
- George O’Connor: Olympians: Zeus, King of the Gods/Olympians: Athena, Grey-Eyed Goddess
- Glenn Fabry: Preacher: Dead or Alive
- Grant Morrison, et al.: Batman & Robin: Batman vs. Robin
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- Hergé: The Adventures of Tintin, Reporter for “Le Petit Vingtieme”: In The Land Of The Soviets
- Hinako Takanaga: You Will Fall in Love/You Will Drown in Love
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- Ice Cream & Sadness: More Comics from Cyanide & Happiness
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- James Jean (art and text) and Bill Willingham (afterword): Fables Covers — The Art of James Jean
- James Sturm: James Sturm’s America: God, Gold and Golems
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- Keith Giffen, et al.: Lobo: 100 Page Spectacular
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- Mike Mignola, et al.: B.P.R.D.: A Plague of Frogs, Vol. 2
- Mike Mignola, et al.: B.P.R.D.: Being Human
- Mike Mignola, et al.: B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs
- Mike Mignola, et al.: Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder / BPRD: War on Frogs
- Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and Guy Davis: B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs, Vol. 3
- Mike Mignola: Hellboy: Monsters and Masks
- Momoko Tenzen: Seven
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- Nate Cosby, ed.: Jim Henson’s The Storyteller
- Neal Adams: Batman: Odyssey
- Neil Gaiman and John Bolton: Harlequin Valentine
- Neil Gaiman and many others: The Sandman
- Neil Gaiman, John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess, Paul Johnson, The Books of Magic
- Paul Dini and Carlos D’Anda, et al.: Batman: Arkham City
- Paul Dini and Guillem March: Gotham City Sirens: Union
- Paul Dini, Dustin Nguyen, and Derek Fridolfs: Batman: Streets of Gotham: Hush Money
- Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen and Larry Mahlstedt: Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga
- Peter Bagge: Other Lives
- Peter David, et al: Young Justice: A League of Their Own/Sins of Youth
- Peter Milligan and Davide Gianfelice: Greek Street: Blood Calls for Blood
- Peter Milligan and Davide Gianfelice: Greek Street: Cassandra Complex
- Peter Milligan and Guiseppe Camuncoli & Stephano Landini: John Constantine, Hellblazer: The Devil’s Trenchcoat
- Peter Milligan and Mikel Janin: Justice League Dark: In The Dark
- Peter Milligan, et al, Hellblazer: India
- Peter Milligan, et al: John Constantine Hellblazer: Hooked
- Peter Milligan: Hellblazer: Bloody Carnations
- Peter Milligan: Phantom Pains
- Peter Straub, Michael Easton and John Bolton: The Green Woman
- Phil and Kaja Foglio: Girl Genius: Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank
- Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz: Kafka
- Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith: The Chronicles of Conan, Vol. 1/The Barry Windsor-Smith Archive — Conan, Volume 1
- Roy Thomas, et al.: The Chronicles of Kull, Volume 1 — A King Comes Riding and Other Stories
- Satoru Ishihara: Kimi Shiruya — Dost Thou Know?
- Scott McCloud: Zot! 1987-1991: The Complete Black and White Collection
- Scott Morse: The Barefoot Serpent
- Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Glapion: Batman, Vol. 1: The Court of Owls
- Sheldon Stark and Jerry Robinson: Jet Scott
- Si Spencer, Dean Ormiston, The Books of Magick — Life During Wartime: Book One
- Si Spencer: Hellblazer: City of Demons
- Stuart Moore and C. P. Smith: Wolverine Noir
- Studio CLAMP: Legal Drug, Vols. 1-3
- Susan Kim, Laurence Klavan and Faith Erin Hicks: Brain Camp
- Tim Eldred: Grease Monkey
- Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak: Brundibar
- Tony Lee, Sam Hart, and Artur Fujita: Outlaw — The Legend of Robin Hood
- Various Artists, The Saga of Solomon Kane/Roy Thomas, Ralph Macchio, et al., The Chronicles of Solomon Kane
- Various Artists: Vertigo Resurrected: Winter’s Edge
- Various Artists: Will Eisner’s “The Spirit” — The New Adventures
- Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson: Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street
- Warren Ellis and Gianluca Pagliarani: Ignition City, Vol. 1
- Warren Ellis and J. H. Williams III: Desolation Jones
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- Will Eisner: The Best of The Spirit
- Will Pfeifer and Jill Thompson: Vertigo Resurrected: Finals
- Yoshitaka Amano (illustrations) Anri Itoh & Junichi Mimura (text): The Tale of Genji
- Yugi Yamada: Close the Last Door!
- ▶Music
- Christos Govetas: Pasatempo: Rebetika with Christos Govetas
- David Gilmour concert
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide To Bhangra
- “Trad Boys, Trad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do….?” Liege & Lief remembered.
- 1651: Cast A Bell
- 3 Mustaphas 3: Play Musty for Me
- A Charles Ives story
- A Christmas Carol for Homeless Children
- A Latvian Folk Music Omnibus
- A Mixed Bag from Borealis Records
- Aaron Copland: A Copland Celebration
- Aaron Copland: Music for the Theatre
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- Aaron Copland: The Copland Collection
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- Abigail Washburn, Calico Rose, Casey Neill: Mississippi Studios, Portland, Oregon, April 1, 2012
- Alan Stivell: Brian Boru
- Alan Trist and David Dodd (editors), David Dodd (annotations), Robert Hunter (foreword), and Jim Carpenter (illustrations): The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
- Alasdair Fraser: Dawn Dance
- All the Apparatus CD release at Someday Lounge
- Allen Lowe: American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo: On Record 1893 to 1957
- Allison Thompson: Lighting the Fire: Elsie J. Oxenham, The Abbey Girls, and the English Folk Dance Revival
- Altramar: Celtic Wanderers
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- Altramar: Iberian Garden
- Amarillis: Waltzing in the Trees
- An Interview with John Convertino of Calexico
- Andrea Hoag, Loretta Kelley, and Charlie Pilzer: Hambo in the Snow
- Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production of Eggs
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- Anthanor: Anthanor
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- Apocalyptica: Apocalyptica Plays Metallica By Four Cellos / Inquisition Symphony
- Arabesque Music Ensemble: The Music of the Three Musketeers
- Arsis Hand Bell Ensemble: Awake, my heart!
- Arvo Pärt, Da Pacem
- Arvo Pärt: In Principio
- Arvo Pärt: Passio
- Ashia Grzesik: Bison Rouge EP release show
- Asleep at the Wheel and Leon Rausch: It’s A Good Day!
- Ass Ponys: Some Stupid With a Flare Gun
- Assembly Players: A Kynaston Ball
- Athenians: Greek Songs, Dances and Rembetiko
- Auktyon
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- Bad Shepherds: Yan, Tyan, Tethera, Methera!
- Balkan Cabaret: Nostalgic Cafe Songs From the Balkans
- Balkanarama: Balkanarama Live
- Baltimore Consort: The Ladyes Delight
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- Barachois
- Barry Foy: A Field Guide to the Irish Music Session
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- BeauSoleil
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- Béla Bartók: Bartók (Sonata for Solo Violin, Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano)
- Béla Bartók: Selected Works
- Ben Sands: Take My Love With You
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- Bert Jansch: Heartbreak
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- Bert Jansch: Moonshine
- Beverly and East Riding Folk Festival
- Bill Frisell and Vinicius Cantuaria: Lagrimas Mexicanas
- Billy Bragg: The Internationale
- billy libby: The Little Bird EP
- Billy Pigg: The Border Minstrel
- Black Lion Festival
- Blind Faith: Blind Faith (Deluxe Edition)
- Blowzabella: Blowzabella: New Tunes for Dancing
- Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
- Bob Dylan: Together Through Life
- Bob Johnson and Peter Knight: The King of Elfland’s Daughter
- Boban & Marko Marković Orchestra vs. Fanfare Ciocărlia: Balkan Brass Battle
- Boban Markovic Orkestar: Boban i Marko
- Boiled in Lead: 17 March 2001
- Boiled in Lead: Alloy
- Boiled in Lead: Alloy 2
- Boiled in Lead: Silver
- Boiled in Lead: Songs from The Gypsy
- Boiled in Lead: The Almost Complete Recordings
- Boiled in Lead: The Well Below EP
- Bollywood Brass Band: Rahmania
- Bonnie Rideout: A Scottish Fiddle Collection
- Bonnie Rideout: Celtic Circles
- Bonnie Rideout: Scottish Reflections
- Boris Grebenshikov: Russian Songwriter: A Collection of Songs from Boris Grebenshikov
- Bothy Band: Old Hag You Have Killed Me
- Bowerbirds: The Clearing
- Brave Old World, Klezmatics, Andy Statmand Klezmer Orchestra, Klezmer Conservatory Band, and Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler’s House
- Breandan Breathnach: Folk Music and Dances of Ireland
- Brenda Lewis: jazzlike
- Bretagne Corse: Polyphonies Corses et Chants Bretons
- Brian Hinton & Geoff Wall: Ashley Hutchings: Always Chasing Rainbows
- Brian Hinton and Geoff Wall: Ashley Hutchings: The Guv’nor and the Rise of Folk Rock
- Brian McNeill and Dick Gaughan in concert
- Bruce Cockburn Announces Fall U.S. Tour (Press Release)
- Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run: 30th Anniversary Edition
- Buck Owens: Honkytonk Man/Don Rich: Don Rich Sings George Jones
- Budapest West: Letters From Afar
- Byrds: There is A Season
- Calexico: Aladdin Theater, Portland, Oregon, July 1, 2004
- Calexico: Convict Pool EP
- Calexico: Feast of Wire
- Calexico: World Drifts In: Live at the Barbican London
- Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Grow Fins
- Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica
- Casey Neill and the Norway Rats set West Coast barnstorming tour
- Casey Neill and the Norway Rats: live at Dante’s
- Casey Neill Band: Live on 11th Street
- Cass Meurig: Crwth
- Catherine Irwin: Little Heater
- Cats Laughing: Bootleg / Another Way to Travel
- Celtarabia: Arabic-Celtic Fusion Music
- Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon: Soul Call (Om Namo Narayanaya)
- Chieftains
- Childsplay Live
- Childsplay: The Great Waltz
- Childsplay: Waiting for the Dawn
- Chloe & Jason Roweth: The Riderless Horse (An Australian impression of World War 1)
- Choban Elektrik: self-titled
- Chris Marshall: Live CD release: August Light
- Christmas Revels: Rose and Thistle: English and Scottish Music from the Christmas Revels
- Christopher Conder and Anaïs Mitchell on Hadestown
- Christy Moore: Smoke And Strong Whiskey
- Chuck Brodsky: Baseball Ballads
- Chuck Leavell: Back To The Woods: A tribute to the pioneers of blues piano
- Ciaran Carson: Last Night’s Fun: In and Out of Time with Irish Music
- Cicely Fox Smith (writer), Charlie Ipcar and James Saville (editors): The Complete Poetry of Cicely Fox Smith
- City of Washington Pipe Band: Scottish Rant
- City Waites: Thomas D’Urfey’s Pills to Purge Melancholy / Baltimore Consort and Merry Companions: The Art of The Bawdy Song
- Clannad: Landmarks
- Clannad: An Diolaim
- Clannad: Clannad
- Clannad: The Best of Clannad: In a Lifetime
- Clatterbone: With A Twisted Grin
- Club d’Elf on Tour
- Clumsy Lovers: Under The Covers with The Clumsy Lovers
- Cocksucker Blues
- Cocktail Diatonique: Accordion based Breton music!
- Cocktail Diatonique: Cocktail Diatonique
- Colin McPhee, Lou Harrison and Chinary Ung: A Double Whammy
- Concert Memories: Skyedance Live
- Conjunto Casino: Montuno en Neptuno #960 / Julio Padron Y Los Amigos De Sta. Amalia: Descarga Santa
- Cordelia’s Dad: What it is
- Corvus Corax: The Best of Corvus Corax
- Cosmic Voices of Bulgaria: Mechmetio
- Country Joe McDonald: Viet Nam Experience / I Fell Like I’m Fixin’ To Sing Some Songs / www.countryjoe.com / Crossing Borders: poetry of M.L. Liebler and the music of Country Joe McDonald
- Crazy Horse: Gone Dead Train: the Best of 1971-1989
- Crystal Zevon: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
- Çudamani: Çudamani: The Seven-Tone Gamelan Orchestra from the Village of Pengosekan, Bali
- Cuillin: Cuillin
- Dalla: A Richer Vein
- Dan Ar Braz: Made In Breizh / Various Artists: Fest Vraz
- Dan ar Braz: more Breton music
- Darol Anger and the American Fiddle Ensemble: Republic of Strings
- Dave Brubeck Quartet: Original Album Classics (Time Out, Time Further Out, Time Changes, Time In, and Countdown — Time in Outer Space)
- Dave Brubeck: Original Album Classics (Jazz Goes To College, Brubeck Plays Brubeck, Gone With The Wind, Brandenberg Gate: Revisited, Jazz Impressions Of New York)
- Dave Shepherd and Becky Price: Ashburnham
- Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nicol: When We Were Very Young
- Dave Swarbrick: raison d’etre
- David Bowie: Rare And Unseen
- David Faulkner and Steve Turner: English and Border Music for Pipes
- David Quantick: The Clash
- David Rees: Minstrels in the Gallery: a history of Jethro Tull
- Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: What The Brothers Sang
- Dead Can Dance: Wake: The Best of Dead Can Dance
- Dear Richard, Please Will You Play…? Three shows, three settings, one happy woman
- Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
- Depeche Mode: Delta Machine [Deluxe Edition]
- Derek Schofield: The First Week in August, Fifty Years of the Sidmouth Festival
- Dervish live
- Dex Romweber Duo: Is That You In The Blue tour, free MP3 download
- Dex Romweber Duo: Is That You In The Blue?
- Diana Boullier: Exploring Irish Music and Dance
- Dion: The Complete Laurie Singles
- Doc Dailey and Magnolia Devil: Victims, Enemies and Old Friends
- Dominig Bouchaud: L’Ancre d’argent: Harpe en Bretagne
- Don Nix: Living By The Days
- Don Sebesky: Giant Box
- Donald Davidson: The Big Ballad Jamboree
- Donovan: Try For The Sun: the Journey of Donovan
- Doors: Best of The Doors
- Doug Carter: Cool Fool: Blues Rockin’ in the Hammer
- Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: I Got Stoned and I Missed It: The Best from Shel Silverstein, 1971-1979
- Dr. N. Ramani and Hariprasad Chaurasia: Together: Raga Hindolam/Malkauns, Raga Pahadi (“Dhum”)
- Dropkick Murphys: Live on St. Patrick’s Day
- Dropkick Murphys: The Warrior’s Code
- Dubl Handi: Up Like The Clouds
- Earthly Delights Band: The Lost Dances of Earthly Delights
- Ed Cray: The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs
- Eddie and Frank Thomas: Maggie’s House
- Edward D. (Sandy) Ives: The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad
- Eivør Pálsdóttir: Eivør
- Elana James: Elana James
- Eliseo Parra: Viva Quien Sabe Querer
- Ellen Kushner and Shirim Klezmer Orchestra: The Golden Dreydl
- Emanuel Ax: Brahms: Piano Concertos, Works for Solo Piano
- Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel
- Ensemble Hayrik Mouradian: Traditional Children’s Songs of Armenia, Vol. I
- Ensemble Khan Bogd: Mongolian Impressions: Ayalguu, Vol. I/Magtaal-Höömij, Vol. II
- Ensemble Melpomen: Melpomen — Ancient Greek Music for an Athenian Symposium of ca. 450 BC
- Ensemble Polaris: Midnight Sun: Traditional Nordic Melodies
- Ensemble Üch-Süme-R: Traditional songs of the Khakass and the Altai people
- Erdem Helvacıoğlu and Ros Bandt: Black Falcon / Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal: Chamber Music
- Eric Brace and Peter Cooper: An Omnibus Review
- Eric Burdon’s I Band: The Official Live Bootleg #1 / Eric Burdon and the New Animals: The Official Live Bootleg #2
- Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Moment’s Energy
- Fairport Convention and Assorted Guests: Cropredy Capers
- Fairport Convention: 4Play 76/79
- Fairport Convention: A Reading List
- Fairport Convention: By Popular Request / Babbacombe Lee Live Again
- Fairport Convention: Fairport @ Forty DVD
- Fairport Convention: XXXV
- Fairport Conventions news!
- Fairport’s Cropredy Convention
- Family: Anyway / Fearless / Bandstand / It’s Only A Movie / Live
- Feast of Fiddles: Live ’01
- Festival Express
- Festival memories: 50th Annual Portland Scottish Highland Games
- Fintan Vallely (editor): The Companion to Irish Traditional Music
- Fiona Mackenzie: Duan Nollaig: A Gaelic Christmas
- Fiona Ritchie: The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Celtic Music
- Flash Girls: Maurice & I
- Flash Girls: Play Each Morning Wild Queen
- Flash Girls: The Return of Pansy Smith and Violet Jones
- Flight Plan: A look back at Jefferson Airplane
- FLK: Re Noir
- Flogging Molly: Float
- Flogging Molly: Swagger
- Folk Underground: Buried Things
- Fotheringay: Fotheringay / Fotheringay 2
- Francis Edward Abernathy and Dan Beaty: Singing Texas
- Francis James Child (collector and editor) & Mark Heiman and Laura Saxton Heiman (editors, corrected text): The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume One
- Franco: Rough Guide to Franco
- Frankie Armstrong: A Selected Retrospective
- Freakwater: Thinking of You
- Gaate: Jygri
- Gabriel Yacoub: The Simple Things We Said
- Gail Holst-Warhaft: Road To Rembetika
- Garth Cartwright: Princes Amongst Men
- Gary Whitehouse: Sound Bites
- Gary Whitehouse: Sound Bites
- Gary Whitehouse: Sound Bites
- Gearoid O hAllmhurain: A Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music
- Genticorum: La Bibournoise
- Genticorum: Nagez Rameurs
- Geoff Wallis and Sue Wilson: The Rough Guide to Irish Music
- George Benson: Beyond the Blue Horizon/Freddie Hubbard: First Light
- George Berger: Dance Before the Storm: The Official Story of the Levellers
- George R. R. Martin: The Armageddon Rag
- Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Vassilis Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances
- Ghazal: Moon Rise Over the Silk Road
- Gillian Welch: Soul Journey
- Gjallarhorn: Grimborg
- Gjallarhorn: Ranarop: Call of the Sea Witch
- Gjallarhorn: Sjofn
- Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session
- Gordon Lightfoot: Songbook
- Gothard Sisters: Christmas
- Gothard Sisters: Story Girl
- Graham Seal and Rob Willis (editors): Verandah Music: Roots of Australian Tradition
- Grateful Dead: So Many Roads (1965-1995)
- Greg Russo: Flying Colours: The Jethro Tull Reference Manual
- Gwazigan: Y’Vait du monde
- Gwerinos: Lleuadllawn
- Hariprasad Chaurasia & Kumar Bose: Flute Deity / Purbayan Chatterjee: New Dawn Mind / Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Salil Bhatt & Sandeep Das: Mohan’s Veena
- Hector Berlioz, trans. Jacques Barzun: Evenings with the Orchestra
- Hedgepig: Second Sight / Third Rock
- Heisei Nakamura-za Kabuki Troupe concert
- Hello Morning: A Fiction CD release show
- Henrik Bech Poulsen: 77: The Year of Punk & New Wave
- Hindu Love Gods: Hindu Love Gods EP
- Horslips: Drive the Cold Winter Away
- Horslips: Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part
- Horslips: Horslips Greatest Hits
- Horslips: Horslips Greatest Hits
- Horslips: Roll Back
- House Band: The Almost Complete Recordings
- House Band: The Complete Recordings
- Howard Pollack: Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
- Howe Gelb: The Listener / The Band of Blacky Ranchette: Still Lookin’ Good To Me
- Hubert Laws: In The Beginning
- Hugh Shields, (editor): Tunes of the Munster Pipers: Irish Traditional Music from the James Goodman Manuscripts
- Ian Anderson in concert at the Beacon Theater
- Ian Anderson: Rupi’s Dance
- Ian Anderson: Rupi’s Dance
- If I Should Fall From Grace: The Shane McGowan Story
- Ilgi: Ej tu dejot
- Ilgi: Ej tu dejot
- Ilgi: Isakas Nakts Dziesmas
- Ilgi: Kaza Kapa Debesis / Laimas Muzykanti: Orkla Bolss
- Inanna: Jewel in the Heart
- Interview with Bill O’Toole, founding member of Blowzabella
- Interview with Josh Malm of Redwood Son
- Interview with Nathan Salsburg, producer of Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard
- Interview with Värttinä’s Janne Lappalainen
- Interview with Värttinä’s Mari Kaasinen
- Interview with Värttinä’s Matti Kallio
- Interview: Nick Burbridge of McDermott’s Two Hours and other endeavors
- Iren Lovasz: Rosebuds In A Stoneyard / Wide Is The Danube
- Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler’s House
- J.R.R. Tolkien (poems) and Donald Swann (music): The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle
- Jaak Johanson & Mart Johanson: Nordic Interlude / Johanson & Vennad: Globus Diei
- Jack Loeffler, Katherine Loeffler and Enrique R. LaMadrid, Ph.D. (writers) and Jack Parsons (photographer: La Música de los Viejitos
- Jackalope: Dances with Rabbits
- James D. Houston and Eddie Kamae (writers): Hawaiian Son: the Life and Music of Eddie Kamae
- Janis Joplin: Pearl
- Jascha Heifetz: Brahms/Tchaikovsky, Violin Concertos
- Jay Ungar and Molly Mason: Harvest Home: Music For All Seasons
- Jean-Pierre Lécuyer: Matin 1 – Vielles à roue
- Jefferson Airplane: The Essential Jefferson Airplane / Jefferson Starship: Red Octopus / Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship: Blows Against the Empire
- Jeffrey T. Roesgen: Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
- Jenn Rawling & Basho Parks: Take The Air
- Jennifer Cutting: Song of Solstice
- Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
- Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick 2: Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?
- Jethro Tull: Aqualung
- Jethro Tull: Aqualung Live
- Jethro Tull: Aqualung Live
- Jethro Tull: Jones Beach concert
- Jethro Tull: Live at Montreux 2003
- Jethro Tull: Merry Christmas from Ian Anderson & Jethro Tull
- Jethro Tull: Songs from The Wood
- Jethro Tull: The Early Recordings
- Jethro Tull: The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
- Jimmy Guterman: Runaway American Dream: Listening to Bruce Springsteen
- Jodie Holland: Catalpa
- Joe Merrick: London Irish Punk Life and Music: Shane MacGowan
- Joep Bor (editor): The Raga Guide
- Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77; Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 102
- Johannes Brahms: Orchestral Works/Piano Works
- Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor
- Johannes Brahms: Works for Violin, Cello and Piano
- John Denver: Rocky Mountain Christmas
- John Doe: A Year in the Wilderness
- John Doe: Forever Hasn’t Happened Yet
- John Dowland: Seven Teares: Music of John Dowland/The York Waites: Fortune My Foe: Popular Music from the Period of the Gunpowder Plot
- John G. Gibson: Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 – 1945
- John G. Gibson: Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 – 1945
- John Gay: The Beggar’s Opera
- John Gay: The Beggar’s Opera / Edward German: Excerpts from Tom Jones
- John Luther Adams: The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
- John Noise Manis, producer: Trance Gamelan in Bali
- Johnny Clegg (with Savuka and Juluka): Live! And More…
- Johnny Clegg: Human
- Joji Hirota: The Gate
- Jon Bream: Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of All Time
- Josepha Sherman and T.K.F. Weisskopf: Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood
- Judit Frigyesi: Béla Bartók and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest / Peter Laki: Bartók and His World
- June Tabor & Oysterband: Ragged Kingdom
- June Tabor and The Oysterband in Concert
- June Tabor at the Minnemeers Theater in Ghent, Belgium
- June Tabor: A Quiet Eye
- June Tabor: An Echo of Hooves
- June Tabor: Rosa Mundi
- June Tabor: The First Twenty Years of Recordings
- K. Sridhar, et al.: Raga Madhukauns, Raga Piloo/Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, et al.: Raga Piloo
- Kaivama: Kaivama
- Kalman Balogh and the Gypsy Cimbalom Band: Gypsy Jazz
- Kalman Balogh and the Gypsy Cimbalom Band: Gypsy Jazz
- Kathryn Tickell and Friends: The Northumberland Collection
- Kathryn Tickell: Debateable Lands
- Kathryn Tickell: Kathryn Tickell & Ensemble Mystical
- Kaushiki Chakrabarty: Pure
- Keith Shadwick: Jimi Hendrix: Musician
- Kelly Hogan: I Like To Keep Myself In Pain
- Kelly Joe Phelps: Brother Sinner And The Whale
- Ken Brooks: The Incredible String Band, Gently Tender
- Ken Caillat: Making Rumours: the Inside Story
- Kepa Junkera: Bilbao 00:00h
- Kevin Courrier: Trout Mask Replica
- KGB: In From the Cold
- Kim Bates on Winter Holiday music
- Kingston Trio: Once Upon a Time / Twice Upon a Time
- Kirsten Bråten Berg, Marilyn Mazur and Lena Willemark: Stemmenes Skygge
- KlezRoym: Sceni
- Kodo: Akatsuki
- Kodo: Live at Symphony Center, 2/21/11
- Kornog: Three Recordings
- Kubasonics: Giants Of the Prairies
- Kyle Alden: Songs from Yeats’ Bee-Loud Glade
- La Bottine Souriante: Appelation d’Origine Contrôlée
- La Musgaña: Lubicán / Las Seis Tentaciones / En Concierto / Temas Profanos / 20
- La Nef: Perceval, La quete du Graal, Vol. 1 and 2
- Ladies and Gentlemen: the Rolling Stones
- Lais: Dorothea
- Lalezar Ensemble: Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio: Vol. III, Minority Composers / Vol. IV, Ottoman Suite
- Lalezar Ensemble: Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio: Volume I, Sultan Composers / Volume II, Music of the Dancing Boys
- Larry Kane: Ticket To Ride
- Laura Risk: The Merry Making
- Laurie Anderson: Life on a String / Live at Town Hall
- Le Trio Joubran: Majaz
- Le Vent Du Nord: Les Amants Du Saint-Laurent
- Le Vent Du Nord: Les Amants Du Saint-Laurent / La Volute: Descendez A Gaspé
- Le Vent du Nord: Mesdames et messieurs!
- Le Vent du Nord: Tromper le Temps
- Lena Hughes: Queen of The Flat Top Guitar
- Lenahan: Brand New Bag!
- Leon Fleisher: “An American Anthology”: Copland, Sessions, Kirchner, Rorem
- Leoned Fall: The complete recordings
- Les Barker: The Stones Of Callanish
- Les Witches: Five Views of the Northern Renaissance
- Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman
- Liam Clancy: The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour
- Lindsey Buckingham: Songs from the Small Machine
- Linkin Park: A Thousand Suns
- Loreena McKennitt: A Midwinter Night’s Dream
- Loreena McKennitt: An Ancient Muse
- Loreena McKennitt: An Interview
- Loreena McKennitt: Live in Paris and Toronto
- Loreena McKennitt: The Early Years, 1985 to 1996
- Los Lobos: Acoustic En Vivo
- Lost Bayou Ramblers: Mammoth Waltz
- Louth Mouths from Drogheda
- Lunasa: Lunasa / Otherworld / The Merry Sisters of Fate
- Lura: Di Korpu Ku Alma
- Lynyrd Skynyrd: Live from Freedom Hall / Los Lobos: Tin Can Trust
- MacKeel: Plaid
- Maddy Prior and June Tabor: Silly Sisters / No More to the Dance
- Maddy Prior: Arthur The King
- Maddy Prior: Collections / Under The Covers
- Maddy Prior: Flesh & Blood
- Maddy Prior: Memento: The Best of Maddy Prior
- Maddy Prior: Ravenchild
- Maddy Prior: Woman in the Wings
- Madrigaia: Live at The Bhigg House
- Maggie Björklund: Coming Home
- Magnolia Mountain: Town and Country
- Mahavishnu Orchestra: Live at Montreux, 1984 & 1974
- Mahmoud Fadl: The Drummers of the Nile in Town: Cairosonic
- Maire Brennan: The Other Side Of The Rainbow
- Maire Nic Domhnaill Gairbhi: A Traditional Music Journey 1600 – 2000: From Erris to Mullaghban
- Makam: Almanach
- Marcel Khalifé: Fall of the Moon
- Mark Lindsay: The complete Columbia singles
- Mark O’Connor, Matt Haimovitz, Paul Neubauer, and Ida Kavafian: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 3
- Martha Tilston: Machines Of Love And Grace
- Martin Scorsese’s…The Blues
- Masters of Persian Music: Without You
- Matapat: Petit Fou
- Matt Bauer: The Jessamine County Book Of The Living
- McDermott’s 2 Hours v Levellers: Claws and Wings
- McDermott’s 2 Hours vs Levellers: World Turned Upside Down / All Kinds of Disorder
- McDermott’s 2 Hours: The Enemy Within
- McDermott’s Two Hours: Goodbye to the Madhouse
- McDermotts 2 Hours: Live at Ferneham Hall
- Meat Puppets: You Love Me EP
- Mediaeval Baebes: The Rose
- Medieval Baebes: Worldes Blysse
- Mediæval Bæbes: Illumination
- Melody Gardot at the Aladdin Theater
- Memorial Concert for Johnny Cunningham
- Metallica: ‘Whiskey in the Jar’ EP
- Methera Quartet: Methera
- Michael Kamen: The Raggedy Rawney soundtrack
- Michael Nyman: Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs
- Mícheál Ó Domhnaill: A Rememberence
- Mícheál Ó’Domhnaill: 1951-2006
- Mike Barnes: Captain Beefheart
- Mike Scott: Adventures of a Waterboy
- Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l’echafaud
- Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
- Miles Davis: That’s What Happened: Live in Germany 1987
- Mollys: this is my round
- Monsieur Pantin: Ma Rosalie
- More STAX Re-issues
- Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel and Why Patterns?
- Morton Feldman: The Viola In My Life
- Mucca Pazza: Safety Fifth
- Music to Look For
- Muzsikas and Marta Sebestyen: Live at Liszt Academy
- My Cousin, The Emperor: The Subway EPs
- N. Rajam: Radiant
- National Lights: The Dead Will Walk, Dear
- Ned Ludd: A Zero Ore
- Ned Ludd: Lavord e Dignita
- Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
- Neko Case: The Tigers Have Spoken
- New Budapest Orpheum Society: Dancing On the Edge Of A Volcano: Jewish Cabaret and Political Songs 1900-1945
- New Budapest Orpheum Society: Dancing On the Edge Of A Volcano: Jewish Cabaret and Political Songs 1900-1945
- Nick Jaina: The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone
- Nickelback: The Band Everyone Loves to Hate
- Nigel Eaton et al: Ancient Beatbox / Nigel Eaton and Andy Cutting: Panic at the Cafe / Duellists: English Hurdy Gurdy Music
- Nightnoise: A Retrospective
- Nightnoise: The White Horse Sessions
- Nightwatch: Dusk Till Dawn
- Nils Lofgren: Cry Tough
- No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded
- Novalia: Arkeo / Agricantus: Faiddi / Tanca Ruja: in terra e in chelu
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Rough Guide to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Oddjob: Koyo / Peaux: Peaux
- Okros Ensemble: Transylvanian Village Music
- Old Blind Dogs: Whatever Yet May Be
- One Trick Pony
- Orlando Consort: The Rose, the Lily and the Whortleberry — Medieval Gardens
- Oysterband: Gawsworth Hall Open Air Theatre, North Maccelesfield, Cheshire
- Oysterband: Oyster Origins 2: Twenty Golden Tie-Slackeners Plus
- Oysterband: The Early Years
- Oysterband: The Shouting End of Life
- Padraig Lalor: Ismay’s Dream: An Evocative Journey through Ireland’s Titanic history
- Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma: Sampradaya
- Pangéo: Northern Borders
- Pat Gilbert: Passion is a Fashion: The Real Story of The Clash
- Patricia Kennealy: Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison
- Paul James & Mark Hawkins: Horse
- Paul M. Gifford: The Hammered Dulcimer: A History
- Paul McCartney: Each One Believing: On Stage, Off Stage, and Backstage
- Paul McCartney: McCartney / McCartney II
- Paul Simon: Live From Philadelphia
- Peatbog Faeries: Faerie Stories
- Peatbog Faeries: Mellowosity
- Peatbog Faeries: Welcome to Dun Vegas / Shooglenifty: Arms Dealer’s Daughter
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra (music) and Robert Sandall (words): The Penguin Café Orchestra: A History
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Concert Program
- Pentangle: The Time Has Come: 1967-1973
- Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live
- Peter S. Beagle (libretto) and David Carlson (music): The Midnight Angel: An Opera in Two Acts
- Peter Stampfel & The Ether Frolic Mob: The Sound of America
- Philip Glass and Beni Montresor: The Witches of Venice
- Philip Glass and Constance DeJong: Satyagraha
- Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet: Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass
- Philip Glass and Lauri Otonkoski: A Madrigal Opera/Cameo — A Symphonic Poem
- Philip Glass and Martina Winkel: Kepler
- Philip Glass and Robert Wilson: Einstein on the Beach
- Philip Glass and Wendy Sutter: Songs and Poems for Solo Cello
- Philip Glass et al: The Juniper Tree Opera
- Philip Glass: Akhnaten
- Philip Glass: In the Penal Colony
- Philip Glass: Symphony No. 7, “Toltec”
- Philip Pickett: The Bones of All Men
- Philip Pickett: The Bones of All Men
- Piffaro: Music from the Odhecaton
- Po’ Girl: Home to You
- Poco: Live at Columbia Studios, Hollywood 9/30/71
- Pogues: Folk Rock with an Irish Twist
- Pogues: Rum Sodomy & the Lash
- Pogues: Streams of Whiskey
- Pogues: The Ultimate Collection
- Poor Man’s Fortune: Blow Hard
- Popcorn Behavior: Journeywork / Hot Contra Dance Tunes / Strangest Dream
- Popes: Holloway Boulevard
- Popes: Holloway Boulevard
- Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op.71
- Qntal: Qntal III: Tristan und Isolde
- Randy Armstrong: Dining on the Diner
- Rare Air: Hard to Beat / Space Piper
- Rattlers: Weightless
- Ravi Shankar: The Essential Ravi Shankar
- Ravi Shankar: Vision of Peace: The Art of Ravi Shankar
- Ravishers CD release: live at the Doug Fir Lounge
- Recent CDs in the mail
- Red Dog Green Dog: Good Afternoon, This is Roughly Speaking
- Red Priest: The Four Seasons (Vivaldi and Corelli)
- Red: End of Silence / Innocence and Instinct
- Redwood Son CD Release Show: The Lion’s Inside
- Reptile Palace Orchestra: Iguana Iguana
- Rev Hammer: Freeborn John “Live”
- Reveillons: Quiquequoidontou? / Belzébuth: Les Péches du Diable
- Richard & Linda Thompson: Hokey Pokey
- Richard & Linda Thompson: Shoot Out The Lights (Deluxe Edition)
- Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
- Richard Thompson Band
- Richard Thompson: Dream Attic
- Richard Thompson: “RT” The life and music of Richard Thompson
- Richard Thompson: 1000 Years Of Popular Music / Ducknapped!
- Richard Thompson: Electric
- Richard Thompson: Live at the BBC
- Richard Thompson: Live Warrior
- Richard Thompson: South Bank Centre, London, England
- Richard Thompson: Strict Tempo!
- Richard Thompson: Sweet Warrior
- Richard Thompson: The Old Kit Bag
- Richard Thompson: Walking On A Wire, 1968-2009
- Richard Thompson: Watching the Dark
- Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, Metropolitan Opera
- Rick Cutler: First Melancholy, Then the Night Stretch
- Robert Green: The Hurdy Gurdy in Eighteenth-Centure France
- Robert Greenfield: Dark Star: an Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia / Blair Jackson: Garcia: An American Life
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
- ▶Robert Plant: Band of Joy
- Robin Laing: The Water of Life
- Robin Laing: The Water Of Life
- Robin Laing: Whisky for Breakfast
- Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer
- Rockin’ The Halls At TRI: Two Days In the Studio With The Fall Risk
- Roger Knox: Stranger In My Land
- Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
- Rolling Stones: Forty Licks
- Rolling Stones: The Early Years
- Rondellus: Sabbatum
- Ronnie Penque: Only Road Home
- Rook: C’mon EP
- Roots-rock omnibus: Cordero, Wussy, Archer Avenue
- Rosie Flores: Working Girl’s Guitar
- Ruth MacKenzie: Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden
- S.J. Tucker and Gaia Consort in Concert
- S.J. Tucker: For the Girl in the Garden / Solace and Sorrow
- S.J. Tucker: Haphazard
- Sandra Layman: Little Blackbird
- Sandy Denny
- Santana: Hymns for Peace: Live at Montreux, 2004
- Sarah McQuaid: The Plum Tree and the Rose
- Scott Allen Nollen: Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968-2001
- Scrod Pudding: Food For Your Feet
- Sean Rowe: Magic
- Sean Wilentz & Greil Marcus (editors): The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad
- Selim Sesler: The Road to Kesan: Turkish Rom and Regional Music of Thrace
- Sequentia and Dialogos: Chant Wars
- Sergei Prokofiev, Gavin Friday & The Friday-Seezer Ensemble, Bono: Peter and the Wolf
- Seven Nations: The Factory
- Shane MacGowan’s Popes: Across The Broad Atlantic
- Sharon Lawrence: Jimi Hendrix: The Man, The Magic, The Truth
- Shooglenifty: A Whisky Kiss / Venus in Tweeds
- Shubhendra Rao and Partha Sarothy: Ancient Weave
- Silly Wizard: The Best of Silly Wizard
- Sinfonye: red iris / Trois Soeurs
- Sivan Perwer: Sivan Perwer
- Skolvan: The complete recordings
- Skyedance: Labyrinth
- Solas in Concert
- Solas: For Love And Laughter
- Solas: Live
- Solas: Reunion
- Solas: The Edge of Silence
- Solas: The Hour before Dawn
- Solas: The Words that Remain
- Sound Bites: Cleaning the 2011 Slate
- Sound Bites: Serving up the leftovers, Part 1
- Sound bites: Serving up the leftovers, part 2
- St. Agnes Fountain: Comfort and Joy
- Stan Rogers returns…
- Stan Rogers: The Very Best of…
- Stanley Turrentine: Don’t Mess With Mister T
- Stanley Turrentine: Salt Song
- Stax Re-issues
- Steeleye Span: Now We Are Six Again
- Steeleye Span: Present: The Very Best of Steeleye Span
- Steindór Andersen: Rímur: A Collection From Steindór Andersen
- Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, Grand Isle
- Stian Carstensen: Backwards Into the Backwoods
- Storvan: Breton music done right
- Strangelings: Season of the Witch
- Strangled Darlings: Live at the Alberta St. Pub
- Susan McKeown and the Chanting House with Kíla opening
- Susana Seivane: Alma De Buxo
- Suzanne Vega: Live At Montreux 2004
- Tab Benoit: Medicine
- Taberna Mylaensis: L’anima du munnu
- Talisman: Music of Russian Princesses: the Great
- Talisman: Music of Russian Princesses: From the Court of Catherine the Great
- Taraf de Haidouks: Maskarada
- Telling the Bees: Untie the wind / An English Arcanum
- Telling the Bees: Untie The Wind/An English Arcanum
- Tempest: 15th Anniversary Collection
- Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet: Kronos Quarter Plays Terry Riley: Salome Dances for Peace
- Terry Riley: The Lisbon Concert
- Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air
- The Band: Americana meets Rock and Roll
- The Beatles: Let It Be… Naked
- The Crossing: The Court of a King: A Celtic Christmas Celebration
- The Decemberists: Live At Bull Moose
- The Decemberists: The King Is Dead
- The Doors
- The Doors: The Best of The Doors
- The Dufay Collective, Music for Alfonso the Wise
- The Flatlanders at B.B. King’s
- The Grateful Dead: An Omnibus Review
- The Handsome Family: At the Doug Fir Lounge
- The Handsome Family: Scattered West Coast tour
- The Handsome Family: Wilderness
- The Hot Club Of Cowtown: What Makes Bob Holler
- The Ivory Consort: Music from the Land of Three Faiths
- The Men They Couldn’t Hang: Demos & Rarities, Vol. 1
- The Moaners: Live 2010
- The Mollys: Moon over The Interstate
- The Mollys: Hat Trick
- The Morrigan: The Spirit of the Soup
- The Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective
- The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
- The Rum Store: Carnglaze Caverns, St Neot, Cornwall
- The Tallis Scholars: The Tallis Scholars Sing Josqin
- The Ukrainians: The Ukrainians / Respublika
- The Waterboys & Andy Dinan & Friends: Fernham Hall, March 30, 2002, The Eleventh Annual Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival, Fareham, Hampshire, England
- The Wicker Man Soundtrack
- Theatre of Voices: Street Cries
- The Mollys: Wankin’ Out West / Only a Story
- Thin Lizzy in concert
- Three Metre Day: Coasting Notes
- Three Nordic neo-traditional albums
- Tim Eriksen: Josh Billings Voyage
- Tim Hart & Friends: My Very Favourite Nursery Rhyme Record
- Timothy Rice: May It Fill Your Soul: Experiencing Bulgarian Music
- Tina K. Ramnarine: Ilmatar’s Inspirations: Nationalization, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music
- Tom Lehrer: The Remains of Tom Lehrer
- Tom Waits: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
- Tomas Michaud: Beauty and Fire
- Tommy James & the Shondells: 40 Years: the Complete Singles Collection 1966-2006
- Tony Bacon: London Live
- Tori Amos: Live at Montreux, 1991-1992
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Beethoven’s Last Night
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Beethoven’s Last Night
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Night Castle
- Triakel: Wintersongs
- Trio Mediaeval: A Worcester Ladymass
- Troissoeur: Trah Njim
- Tsagaan Sar: White Moon (Traditional and Popular Music from Mongolia)
- Tummel: Payback Time
- Turbonegro: Retox
- Turbonegro: Retox
- Twist & Shout: a tribute to the Beatles
- Ukrainians: Diaspora
- Ukrainians: Istoriya: The Best of The Ukrainians
- Uun Budiman and the Jugala Gamelan Orchestra: Banondari: New Directions in Jaipongan
- Valentin Clastrier: Hérésie / Le Bûcher des Silences: Le Bûcher Des Silences
- Van Cliburn, et al.: The Two Sergeis
- Van Morrison & the Chieftains: Irish Heartbeat
- Various Artists: Gamelan of Central Java XI: Returning Minimalism: In Nem
- Various Artists: Gamelan of Central Java XII: Pangkur One / XIII: Pangkur Two
- Various Artists: Gamelan of Central Java XIV: Ritual Sounds of Sekaten
- Various Artists: Gamelan of Central Java, Vol. VIII: Court Music Treasures/Volume IX: Songs of Wisdom and Love
- Various Artists: Gamelan of Central Java, Vols. I-IV
- Various Artists: Gamelan of Central Java, Vols. V-VII
- Various Artists: Gamelan of Central Java, X: Sindhen Trio
- Various Artists: Gamelan of Central Java, XI: Music of Remembrance.
- Various Artists: Gamelan of Java: Volume I: Kraton Kasunanan / Volume II: Contemporary Composers
- Various Artists: Hail Be You Sovereigns, Lief and Dear
- Various Artists: Italia 4: Atlante di Musica Tradizionale
- Various Artists: Johnny Boy Would Love This… A Tribute to John Martyn
- Various Artists: MidWinter: A Celebration of the Folk Music and Traditions of Christmas and the Turning of the Year
- Various Artists: Rough Guide to Klezmer Jewish traditions: Shtetl Roots and New World Revival
- Various Artists: To What Strange Place: Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929
- Various artists: Unwired: Acoustic Music from Around the World
- Various Artists: 1920: Even Water’s Getting Weaker
- Various Artists: Accordeon
- Various Artists: Acoustic Folk Box
- Various Artists: American Pop: An Audio History
- Various Artists: Balkans without Borders
- Various Artists: Beautiful: a Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot
- Various Artists: Black Sabbath
- Various Artists: Calypso At Midnight / Calypso After Midnight
- Various Artists: Deadicated: Songs of the Grateful Dead
- Various Artists: Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia
- Various artists: Endless Highway: the Music of The Band
- Various Artists: Far, Far from Ypres
- Various Artists: Fest Vraz
- Various artists: From The Land of Ice And Snow: The Songs of Led Zeppelin
- Various Artists: Heroes & Horses: Corridos from the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands
- Various Artists: Indonesia: Music from the Nonesuch Explorer Series
- Various artists: Jazz Roots – The Music Of The Americas
- Various Artists: Lagaan: Once upon a time in India
- Various artists: Moody Bluegrass Two … Much Love
- Various artists: Music from Montenegro
- Various Artists: Music From Vietnam / Music From Vietnam 2, The City of Huê / Music From Vietnam 3, Ethnic Minorities nKim Sinh: Music From Vietnam 4, The Artistry of Kim Sinh / Music From Vietnam 5 – Minorities From The Central Highland and Coast
- Various artists: No One Got Hurt: Bloodshot Record’s 15th Anniversary @ The Hideout
- Various Artists: Nordic Roots series
- Various artists: North African Groove
- Various Artists: People On The Highway: A Bert Jansch Encomium
- Various artists: Progressions: 100 Years of Jazz Guitar
- Various Artists: Real Ragtime
- Various artists: Riga Dimd
- Various Artists: Rough Guide to Cumbia
- Various Artists: Rough Guide to Hungarian Music
- Various Artists: Rough Guide to the Music of Central Asia
- Various Artists: Rough Guide to the Music of Turkey
- Various Artists: Rough Guide to the Music of Wales
- Various Artists: Stolen Roses: Songs of the Grateful Dead
- Various artists: The Appalachians / Jim Watson, Tommy Thompson & Mike Craver: Meeting in the Air
- Various Artists: The Kilmartin Sessions: The Sounds of Ancient Scotland
- Various Artists: The Medieval Experience / Venere Lute Quartet: Sweet Division
- Various Artists: The Music of Nubenegra
- Various artists: The Rose & The Briar
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Arabesque
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide to English Roots Music / A.D. Schofield and J. Say: Billy Pigg: The Border Minstrel
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Raï
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide to the Music of Brazil
- Various artists: The Rough Guide to the Music of Central Asia
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide to the Music Of China
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide to The Music of Eastern Europe
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide to the Music of India
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide to the Music of Indonesia
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide to the Music of Mexico
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide To The Music Of Russia
- Various Artists: The Rough Guide: Irish Music / The Rough Guide: Irish Folk
- Various Artists: The Sandinista Project: A Tribute to the Clash
- Various artists: This Bird Has Flown
- Various Artists: This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark
- Various Artists: Where Will You Be Christmas Day?
- Various Artists: Women of Rembetica
- Värttinä: Utu
- Vernel Bagneris (writer) & Leo Touchet (photographer): Rejoice When You Die: The New Orleans Jazz Funeral
- Victoria Mary Clarke & Shane MacGowan: A Drink with Shane MacGowan
- Victory Mary Clarke: A Drink with Shane MacGowan
- Vishten: Vishten / Matapat: Que de Peine et d’Amour / Schlorff: Schway and Curley: l’Orage (The Storm)
- Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Sandeep Das: Indian Delta
- Voice of the Turtle concert
- Waifs: Up All Night
- Warren Zevon: Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
- Warren Zevon: The Wind
- Warren Zevon: Warren Zevon
- Warsaw Village Band: People’s Spring
- Waterboys: A Journey Beneath the Skin
- Watermelon Slim & the Workers: LIVE at Ground Zero
- Wayne Hancock: Ride
- When the Pipers Play
- Whirligig: Spin
- Wild Asparagus: Best of Wild Asparagus
- Wimme: Gierran
- Wirral Folk On The Coast Festival
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute
- WOMADelaide, Botanic Park, Adelaide, Australia
- WOMADelaide: Botanic Park, Adelaide, Australia, March 8-11 2013
- Woods Band: Music From The Four Corners of Hell
- Woodstock: The 25th Anniversary Director’s Cut Edition
- Xicro: Xicro
- Y La Bamba: Court the Storm
- Yat-Kha: Yenisei-Punk
- Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with Ton Koopman and The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra: Simply Baroque
- York Waites: Fortune My Foe: Popular Music from the Period of the Gunpowder Plot
- Yothu Yindi: Tribal Voice
- Young Rascals: The Complete Recordings
- Zabe i Babe: Drumovi
- Altramar: Celtic Wanderers: The Pilgrim’s Road
- Chulrua: Barefoot on the Altar
- Muzsikás: The Bartók Album
- Smithfield Fair: The Winter Kirk
- Tommy Sands: To Shorten The Winter
- ▶Stories
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Time For A Journey…
At times, sorting out the Archives here at Sleeping Hedgehog and Green Man Review can feel like a cross between an archeological endeavor and a whirlwind trip around the world. And of course, L-space is always a risky maze in and of itself; but that just makes the adventure all the more fun! A recent stroll through to brush off a few of our older reviews unearthed some wondrous gems: mainly music, but two book reviews were also found. Each one was gently cleaned and is now set in a more prominent spot for your enjoyment.
On the front shelf for our loyal patrons, then, is the following array:
Stemmenes Skygge, an album by Kirsten Braten Berg, Marilyn Mazur, and Lena Willemark. This album, “initially conceived as a project for Norway’s most prolific jazz festival in Molde,” features a huge whack of award-winning talent and struck the reviewer as both “terrifying” and “difficult”–but the skill of the performers pulls it together well.
An arguably easier title to pronounce sits beside it: Sceni, by KlezRoym. This one hops us from Norway to the Mediterranean, but never fear, there’s a link in that both albums involve jazz–as the reviewer notes, ”all klezmer, being the hybrid genre that it is, has a little Gypsy, a little jazz, and maybe a little Mediterranean harmony.” And what KlezRoym does with those ingredients is to “add their own mixture of moxy, imagination, and excellent improvisational skills to the music.” Sound interesting? Read the full review here.
Moving sideways from klezmer to Rom, we have Maskarada, by Taraf de Haidouks; the reviewer notes of this CD that “While most of their music is relentlessly upbeat to the point of being frenetic, Maskarada marks a slight departure from the Tarafs’ usual offerings.” Read on to find out more.
The last of the CDs on the shelf this time around involve, once more, jazz from Northern Europe; we have a double review of two CDs from the same producer, Amigo Musik. Of the first, the reviewer says, “Koyo is the sort of disk that makes me want to fly to Stockholm, find out where Oddjob is playing, and book a table near the stage for every night they’re booked.” If that isn’t high enough praise, we don’t know what is! And the second feature in this review covers an interesting take on jazz: an all-percussion band called Peaux that “ defies easy categorization.” Read the full review here to find out more.
Moving away from music now, we have two book reviews on display: both take us far from Northern Europe, deep into the Middle East. Cairo Modern, by Naguib Mahfouz, was first published in Arabic in 1945. How has it translated to English, and how “modern” does it seem today? Read on to find out.
Last of all we have another double review, and these books share not a publisher but something far more interesting: one book, The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, was written by a gentleman named James Morier. The other, Ottoman and Persian Odysseys, published considerably later, is a record of the correspondence between James and his two brothers, all of whom served as diplomats. Read the full review of these two volumes here, and follow the reviewer on a ”long literary journey that spans several centuries and traverses the Silk Road and a few more obscure routes”.
When you’re ready to come back and put your feet up in your own comfy chair again, check in to see what reviews we’ve posted since you left…we’re sure to have more journeys in store for you!