Artist: Magnetic Ear
Title: Alien of Extraordinary Ability
Label: self released
Genre: New Orleans style second line and funk, Eastern European brass band music and African music
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
Magnetic Ear is part of the new scene of music coming from New Orleans. An ensemble led by Martin Krusche. Born in Germany, and currently living in New Orleans, Krusche is in addition to being an accomplished musician/composer/band leader, he is also respected saxophone repair man.
Venue: Pianos (NY)
Date: December, 2013
Review by Dawoud Kringle
One December night, people jammed into the main room of the Lower East Side’s music venues Pianos NYC. The Kominas, a Pakistani/American/Muslim Taqwacore Punk group who’d come to national attention after the publication of Michael Muhammad Knight’s groundbreaking novel The Taqwacores were playing as part of South Asian Film Festival.
Artist: Kosi
Title: One More Cup of Coffee
Label: self-released
Genre: blues/jazz/soul
You can download or purchase the album on Amazon, BandCamp and kosi-sings.com.
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
Venue: Drom (NY)
Date: November 24, 2013
Concert review and photos by Matt Cole and Linda Boney
On Sunday, the 24th of November, I caught an enjoyable double bill of Dawoud Kringle‘s eclectic ensemble Renegade Sufi and Holly Cordero‘s jazzy project Truculently Audacious at Alphabet City’s Drom. Though different stylistically on the surface, these two bands nonetheless went quite well together.
Truculently Audacious
(Photo by Matt Cole)
Venue: Snug Harbor (New Orleans)
Date: November 29, 2013
Review and photo by DJ Ruby (DooBeeDoo’s New Orleans contributor)
Sublime may be the only appropriate way to describe B3 organ master Dr. Lonnie Smith’s November 29th performance for the small but packed room at Snug Harbor on bustling Frenchmen Street. With each key change the audience followed him eagerly through levels of exaltation in the music that seemed to ooze from his fingers.
