Category Archives: CD Reviews

CD Review: “Nu-Bossa Elixir’s” by Future350 Feat. Vanessa Falabella (Brazil)

Nu-Bossa Elixir’s by Future350, Stephen Johnson with Vanessa Falabella

A Music Review by Dawoud Kringle

Artist: Future350 Feat. Vanessa Falabella
Titel: Nu-Bossa Elixir’s. Stephen R Johnson with Vanessa Falabella
Label: Movita Records
Genre: Nu Bossa

Stephen Johnson (guitarist, vocalist, Polydor recording artist, head of the MFM Hudson Valley Chapter, founder of Edge, Vienna, Victorian Parents, Son of John, Island of Men, ‘luckymission’ (Green) and Future350) has just released a new album called Nu-Bossa Elixir’s, a collaboration with MFM member Brazilian vocalist Venessa Falabella.

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Lonnie Harrington

Single Review: Lonnie Harrington “Such a Groove”

Review by Dawoud Kringle

Lonnie HarringtonLonnie Harrington (guitarist, percussionist, singer, songwriter, and MFM member) recently announced the release of the single “Such A Groove.” This is his first release since his 2018 instrumental single “I Wonder.” “Such a Groove” features Sean Dixon on drums, and Ruben Gonzalez on bass.

Both of the aforementioned singles will be part of nine songs on his next album Part II, scheduled for release in 2024. As of the writing, the single is only available on all digital platforms.

Harrington has been performing as a funk, samba, Soul, R&B, and rock guitarist throughout the U.S. and Canada for more than 45 years. He’s appeared in venues such as SOB’s, The Blue Note, The Village Gate, Tramps, Cornelia Street Café, The Shrine, Bostons’ Summerthing and The Sugar Shack, Summerstage, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Symphony Space, and many others.

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CD Review: SoSaLa “1993” – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

SArtist: SoSaLa
Title: 1993
Formats: CD and digital
Cat.#: DBDCD003
Label: DooBeeDoo Rec
Genre: NO WAVE
Stream and purchase CD here: https://sosala.hearnow.com/1993

Album Review by Dawoud Kringle

Retrospectives are a double edged sword. They threaten to over-glorify a past that is gone and will never return. At the same time, they perform an essential service by providing something many people sorely lack: historical perspective (not to mention preserving music that needs to be preserved). Especially in a retrospective recording which looks back to a time when music was made at a special time and with special musicians.

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Review: Live Skull “Party Zero”…every punk is a legend!

“Getting in a room and being really noisy is just a natural response to what’s going on right now, because otherwise you’ll just go crazy. That gave Live Skull a reason to exist again.” – Mark C

Artist: Live Skull
Title: Party Zero
Formats: CD/LP/digital
Label: Bronson Records
Genre: No Wave, Experimental, Noise Rock, Alternative Rock
Stream and buy here: https://liveskull.bandcamp.com/album/party-zero

Review by Dawoud Kringle

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Fula Flute

LP + Digital Album Review: Sylvain Leroux “Qromatica” – the Evolution of the Fula Flute

Fula FluteArtist: Sylvain Leroux
Title: Qromatica
Formats: Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Labels: Fula Flute & Meta Dash
Genre: African Jazz
Release date: May 4, 2023
Buy and stream here: https://sylvainleroux.bandcamp.com/album/qromatica

Album Review by Dawoud Kringle

Sylvain Leroux is a unique musician. He devoted years to the study and mastery of the Fula flute, the traditional flute from Guinea, West Africa. He founded a music school, L’ecole Fula Flute; a music literacy project that teaches this endangered flute tradition. He is one of those people who successfully – and respectfully – adapts a foreign musical tradition, and then expands upon it.

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