Text by Dawoud Kringle Not long ago, I had an interesting experience. Some time ago I attended a performance at The Stone in New York City with Steve Gorn and Curtis Bahn. Gorn played flute, bansuri, and percussion, and Bahn played electronic sitar, esraj, and laptop. As I sat on the floor in the uncomfortably […]
Artist: Tomas Doncker Title: Power of the Trinity Label: True Groove Records Genre: Global Soul/R&B/Soul/touch of Ethiopian music/dub Preview, buy and download CD here Review by Dawoud Kringle
Text by Bill McKormick On 12/21/12, the Mayan calendar came to an end. Many people thought the world would end on that day (and some made a pile of money from that fear). Some new age adherents interpreted the event (which was based on an actual astronomical phenomenon: the ancient Mayans were very good with […]
By Dawoud Kringle On December 11th, 2012 (the day before the arcane and mystically suggestive date of 12/12/12), the world lost a musical giant: Ravi Shankar. He was one of those unique people who single handedly changed musical history. Yet this was not confined within his culture and musical tradition: he changed it for the […]
Date: November 16, 2012 Venue: The New York Insight Meditation Center Review by Dawoud Kringle The New York Insight Meditation Center recently hosted a concert by sitar virtuoso Ikhlaq Hussain. Hussain is a musician of the Dehli gaharana (whose lineage dates back to Hazrat Amir Khousro), who plays in Gaykali Ang, a style wherein the […]
