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: World
FIRE TEMPLE – Amytis Dawning (2014) Strings from another world
My, what a dramatic title for a review. You try titling things if you don’t like it! Anyway, it’s not actually that far from reality in this case, as you […]
An unintimidating introduction to Early Music
It is possible that “early music” is the most neglected musical “genre” on Earth. I’m not kidding. I mean, some of you, educated listeners that you are, probably have little […]
EASTERN PROMISE: The worldly fusion ambient of David Parsons
Ever since humankind first started playing around with electronic synthesizers, back in the prehistoric dawn known as the 1960s, it has understood the possibilities for applying this wonderful technology to […]
January Netaudio Revue 2
As this bad blogger plays catchup for a while on his submissions, we will get some supplementary posts to tell you about some of the great stuff I’ve received in […]
Classics of 1970s Italian Progressive Rock
I had a bit of a layoff there… posting a couple of times a week all year sure takes the stuffing out of a fella, what with real life to […]
Exploring the mystical power of the voice with DAVID HYKES
I’ve come across a lot of very different and interesting music over the course of my explorations in search of spiritually satisfying tunes. Eventually this led me to things like […]
CENTRAL ASIAN FUSION – The modern meets the steppes
I’ve had a thing for Central Asia, which I’ve never visited, since I was a kid and my mother took me to the museum, where she said I could choose […]
STEELEYE SPAN – Below the Salt (1972) The pinnacle of British electric folk
Time to delve into another of my passions. My parents weren’t so into rock music when I was a kid (well, Mom wasn’t), but they did have quite a lot […]
STEPHAN MICUS – Darkness and Light (1990) The master of all instruments
I must point out from respect that an excellent and quite poetic review of this album also appears on the Between Sound and Space blog, so please read it as […]
Make Your Own Taste 