Text by Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery, Friday May 13th, 2022)
“Funny Freak Parade” by Ultimate Spinach. From their debut album, released in 1968
Homage to ULTIMATE SPINACH
Author Archives: Adam Reifsteck
MFM “Speaks Out” Podcast EP 37: Neel Murgai on Brooklyn Raga Massive and the New Raga Renaissance
“We’re Creating New Musical Art Forms Indigenous to Brooklyn.”
In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, Dawoud Kringle interviews Neel Murgai. Neel is a sitarist, overtone singer, percussionist, composer, teacher, and Co-Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Raga Massive, a raga inspired musician’s collective.
Music on this episode:
“Bagheshri Unbound” (live recorded improvisation by Neel Murgai using sitar, vocals and loops)
Report: MFM ZOOM Webinar #9 w. Banning Eyre
MFM Presents Music Is Essential Webinar #9 with Banning Eyre – Expanding Our Conception of the Guitar in Africa
Report by Dawoud Kringle
Bruce Gallanter Speaking of the BLUES…“Sitting on Top of the World”
Text by Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery, April 22nd, 2022)
“Sitting on Top of the World” written by Walter Vinson & Lonnie Chatmon, rearranged by Howlin’ Wolf – Covered by Cream (1968) and The Grateful Dead (1967)
MFM “Speaks Out” EP 36: Ariel Hyatt on New Ways to Monetize Music
“The Old Ways of Music Monetization are Gone, and We Have to Think of Other Ways of Monetization” – Ariel Hyatt
In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, Dawoud Kringle interviews Ariel Hyatt. Ariel is a digital marketer, writer, and teacher who assists independent musicians in career development. She is the author of Music Success in 9 Weeks (2009), Cyber PR For Musicians (2013), Crowdstart (2016), and other books. Hyatt worked at New York City’s WNEW-FM, and the What Are Records? record label. She moved to Boulder CO, where she managed and handled publicity for the funk band, Lord of Word. She is also the founder and owner of the New York-based public relations firm Cyber PR. Her clients included the Toasters and George Clinton.
