Text By Dawoud Kringle Music Venue Trust is a UK based network of grassroots music venues and their supporters. Their base concept, Agent of Change, was first introduced into the music scene in Australia, and then, three years ago, into the UK. Agent of Change is a term that is used to describe various approaches to […]
Text by Dawoud Kringle On Tuesday, January 21st, 2018, the music world was saddened to hear that legendary trumpet player, composer, and music activist Hugh Masekela passed away from pancreatic cancer. Thus ended a career of over half a century. He was 79. Masekela began playing trumpet in his teens (an apocrypha of his biography holds […]
Commentary by Dawoud Kringle In a recent article on ReverbNation’s website, musician, blogger, and educator Patrick McGuire espoused the idea that streaming services such as Spotify are a “gift” to musicians. According to McGuire, “Companies like Spotify have invested an insane amount of time and money into finding ways to help connect artists with the […]
“I went to see the musician, Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi of SoSaLa a few nights ago, and I must say, that I was totally impressed by his honesty and sincerity. That’s perhaps one of the things that is missing in many practitioners of the music. It was quite refreshing to experience his concert presentation. Billy Harper […]
Artist: George Crotty and Kirk Starkey Title: Vidi Aquam Label: self produced Genre: electronica/nu music CD Review by Dawoud Kringle Vidi Aquam is the name of an antiphon (a short Psalm-texted chant), which is sung during the Roman Catholic Mass. It is also the tiltel of the recent release of the collaborative project between George Crotty and Kirk Starkey.
