CONCERT REVIEW: Huun-Huur-Tu in Toronto, November 20, 2014
by Allister Thompson I have a thing for Central Asian music, which I wrote about in this piece, so I won’t recap here why it’s so appealing to me. This […]
Category Archives: Acoustic
Five Classic Albums by Female Solo Artists That Deserve Your Attention
by Simon Slator A few months ago, while collecting my son from his swimming lesson, I found myself walking along the school’s corridors and looking at photos of their students’ […]
The Music of Middle-Earth, part 2
by Thomas Mathie About a month back I wrote of my love of music connected with the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien. I finished the article by stating my intention of […]
Fall 2014 Netaudio Revue 1
Make Your Own Taste’s submissions processes went into full crisis mode during the summer of 2014; success is hard to handle sometimes, and this site getting onto the radars of […]
MARC STAPLEFORD – EIGHT DREAMS (2014)
It’s about time I reviewed something from Happy Puppy Records. It’s a true netlabel pioneer; it’s Canadian, like moi; and its proprietor is a fine gentleman. This new release is […]
TESS SAID SO – I Did That Tomorrow (2014)
by Allister Thompson Preserved Sound is a label filling an important role in the online music world. There are myriad labels putting out electronic or “experimental” music, and let’s be […]
The GENESIS top-5 album panel convenes
Genesis is one of the most popular progressive rock bands of all time. Actually, one of the most popular bands, period. The band released a lot of albums in very […]
An Appreciation of BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST
This page contained a long article praising the discography of Barclay James Harvest. I received an email from a guy who apparently had some association with them, correcting factual errors […]
Fela Kuti and the Fall of the Kalakuta Republic
by Simon Slator There’s something about African music I find quite satisfying, whether it’s drumming from Burundi, Senegalese Mbalax or South African Mbube … I love it. A couple of […]
ALI MURRAY – Further Still (2014) Ethereal folk from the edge of the world
by Allister Thompson If you have poked around this blog a lot, you’ll know that ambient and prog-rock are not my only two musical passions; I also love folk music […]
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