November 23rd, 2008

Commuters run up and down the escalators of the Foggy Bottom Metro station in Washington, D.C.—women in suits and sneakers, men with briefcases and security badges. Twenty feet to the left of the subway entrance is a little piece of solitude. Sweet, soaring notes perfume …
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June 15th, 2008

Norwegian folk singer Øyonn Groven Myhren’s newest album Gullveven (from the Etnisk Musikklubb label) is a collection of medieval Scandinavian ballads, sung in a straight-forward, traditional style. The sound is strange to the American ear, but …
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