Dave Howell

Reviews by Dave include:

CDs:

King Sunny Ade
Synchro Series

John McLean Allan & Stand Easy
Tainted

Aimee Allen
Dream

American Zen
Level 1

Jeff Ball
The Shape of Light

Keith Bear
Morning Star Whispered

Matt Belzer
Connections

Kristian Blak & Yggdrasil
Askur
Broytingar

Blue Stone
Breathe

Bonga
Kaxexe

The Carnivaleros
Lost in the Graveyard

Paul Carr
Just Noodlin'

Castles in Spain
Again

Cellar Funk
Down to the Bone

Stella Chiweshe
Double Check: Two Sides of Zimbabwe's Mbira Queen

Jessie Allen Cooper
Sound Travels

Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt, with Ramkumar Mishra
Slide to Freedom

Croft No. Five
Talk of the Future

Danaj
Janicku nas, Janku

Mercan Dede
Su

Carlos del Junco
Blues Mongrel

Lois Deloatch
Closure

Sandy Dennison
Jazzed

Grant Dermody
Crossing That River

Deuter
Tibet: Nada Himalaya 2

Paul Dooley
Music from the Robert ap Huw Manuscript, Vol. I

Druzina
Tragare

Mark Dunn
Return to Peace: A Celtic Journey Through Central America

Big Joe Duskin
Big Joe Jumps Again: Cincinnati Blues Session

Ken Emerson
Hawaiian Tangos, Hulas & Blues

Ensemble Pesnokhorki
Traditional Songs of Cossacks, Vol. 1

Rusty Evans & Ring of Fire
Burning Man

Sara Gazarek
Return to You

Dobet Gnahore
Na Afriki

Boris Grebenshikov
Russian Songwriter

Euge Groove
Just Feels Right

Marc Gunn
Soul of a Harper

Lennart Gybrant & Anders Norudde
Bondernas Underverk

Harp 46
self-titled

Glen Helgeson
Distant Borders Revisited

Mark Holdaway
Between the Light & the Dark

Dave Hole
The Live One

Mark Hummel
Ain't Easy No More
Blowin' My Horn

James Hunter
People Gonna Talk

Imaginary Homeland
Jump for George

Brandur Jacobsen
A Wizard's Journey

Jiggernaut
Evolution

KastningSiegfried
Scalar Fields

Sharon Katz & the Peace Train
Imbizo

Ken Kaufman
Rhythms of the World

Al Gromer Khan & Emin Corrado
Tantra Electronica

Craig King
Breakthrough

Tomas Kocko & Orchestr
Poplor

David Krakauer & Socalled with Klezmer Madness
Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me

Kvonn
Hvonn

La Balteuband
La Balteuband

Mahanada
Taranta's Circles

Kazu Matsui
The Stone Monkey

The Maxwell Project
Jamaphonic

Giancarlo Mazzu & Luciano Troja
Seven Tales About Standards

Guy Mendilow
Live

Metropolitan Klezmer
Live: Traveling Show

Jason Miles
Cozmopolitan

Shunsuke Mizuno
Slow Time

Modern Groove Syndicate
Vessel

Chieko Mori
Katyou Fuugetsu

Mohamed Naiem
Master of the Arabian Flute

New Harmony Indiana
Parlour Music

Chris Norman
Man with the Wooden Flute

The Optina Pustyn Male Choir of St. Petersburg
Orthodox Chants from Russia

Paris Combo
Motifs

Joel Penner Sextet
The Church of the Little Black Dog

Mattias Perez Trio
mp3

Phishbacher
Infinity Ltd.

Mylene Pires
Mylene

Terry Plumeri
Blue in Green

Postmodern Jazz, featuring Roy Ayers
Love Not Truth

Posmrtne Zkusenosti
Aither

Edward Powell
Spiritdance

Romica Puceanu & the Gore Brothers
Sounds from a Bygone Age, Vol. 2

Ian Rapien
Spectrums

Rathkeltair
Everybody

Ravi
The Afro-Brazilian Project

Monica Salmaso
Iaia

Samite
Embalasasa

SAVAE
La Noche Buena: Christmas Music of Colonial Latin America

Stanley Schumacher & the Music Now Ensemble
Sound Textures

Marilyn Scott
Innocent of Nothing

Jim Self
My America

The Seventh Triangle
TOWA

Rob Silvan
The Breathing of the World

Moira Smiley & VOCO
Blink

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
Way Back

Sylvain St-Amour
Cafe des Solitudes

String Planet
self-titled

Anders Svensson
Bara for Ros Skull

SwingBridge
The Early Years

Taxi Chain
Smarten Up

Terre Differenti
Cities of Dreams

Eric Tingstad
Southwest

Tingstad & Rumbel
A Moment's Peace

Tonic
Vintage Vocals

Nestor Torres
Sin Palabras (Without Words)

Dan Treanor & African Wind
Mercy

Samson Trinh
Very Strange Night

Tuatara
The Loading Program

Ivan Tucakov & the Tambura Rasa
Viaje

Paul Tynan
Radio Infrequency

various artists
Gamelan of Central Java I: Classical Gendings
Gamelan of Central Java II: Ceremonial Music
Gamelan of Central Java VIII: Court Music Treasures
Gamelan of Central Java IX: Songs of Wisdom & Love
The Pulse of Brazil
Sound of the World

Andrew Vasquez
Togo

Johnny Whitehorse
Johnny Whitehorse

Robert WindPony
Moon Rider
Sky Blue

Bernard Woma, with Mark Stone & Kofi Ameyaw
In Concert

Les Yeux Noirs
tChorba

Bob Zander
Skyline to the Sea

Zemog el Gallo Bueno
Cama de le Conga

Alexander Zonjic
Seldom Blues


Books:

Bob Brunning
Blues: The British Connection

Peter Cannon
The Lovecraft Chronicles

Loren L. Coleman
By Temptations & By War

Jean Davison
The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles for Change in Highland Kenya

Dennis P. Eichhorn & J.R. Williams
The Legend of Wild Man Fischer

Todd & Jedd Hafer
Mischief from the Back Pew

T.C.F. Hopkins
Empires, Wars, & Battles

Faye Kellerman
Straight into Darkness

John Leake
Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer

John Richard Lindermuth
Schlussel's Woman

Craig Rondinone
Ten Tales to Make Your Head Explode

Bob Snider
On Songwriting

Phyllis Strupp
The Richest of Fare: Seeking Spiritual Security in the Sonoran Desert

Lawrence Sutin
Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick

Michael E. Veal
Dub: Soundscapes & Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae


Concerts:

Celtic Classic '04

Tempest (Lief Sorbye): turning over a new Lief

Wolfstone (Stuart Eaglesham): a carving on the rock


Gardiner's Forbidden Knowledge: Secret Societies

Nick Pope, The Man Who Left the MOD: The UFO Phenomenon Unveiled