We humans love to label and categorize things. Be it animals, plants or historical periods, we like to see the world ordered and compartmentalized neatly into concepts that we can arrange and rearrange, that we can control. The same applies to arts where we slap labels of style and genre on to works whose creators … Continue reading Aoife Ní Bhriain & Cormac McCarthy’s “Cosán Casta”: two masters create a unique musical presence
Tag: album-reviews
Nigel Eaton’s “Lymington Fair”: the magic of the hurdy-gurdy
I'm absolutely fascinated by Old Music, have been ever since I was maybe 15-16 years old. Go figure…One Xmas in the early 1980's, I asked my mother for "something medieval" for a present, and she went to the biggest record store in Helsinki and got me, of all things, David Munrow's "Music of the Gothic … Continue reading Nigel Eaton’s “Lymington Fair”: the magic of the hurdy-gurdy
Countercurrent’s “Flow” brightens these dark times!
It must have been one of those Bandcamp recommendations... Because I have zero recollection of ever hearing or reading about the folk duo from the Northwestern corner of the US before I found myself pressing play on Flow, their brand new release, the third album in their discography. When you don't really know what's coming, … Continue reading Countercurrent’s “Flow” brightens these dark times!
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