Artist: Kenya Wilkins
Title: New York Sessions
Label: self-produced
Genre: improvised music/jazz/ambient/poetry/spoken word
CD Review: Keyna Wilkins “New York Sessions”
Tag Archives: Dawoud Kringle
CD Review: SoSaLa “1994 – Live at CBGB”
Artist: SoSaLa
Title: 1994-Live at CBGB
Format: CD (Limited edition of 100) and digital
Record label: DooBeeDoo Rec
Genre: NO WAVE
(Note: the CD is numbered, autographed, and 24bit fidelity)
Digital and International Releases: January 3, 2025
Distributed Worldwide by CD Baby
Counterculture? What Counterculture?
An Editorial by Dawoud Kringle
(Originally published in https://dawoudtherenegadesufi.substack.com/. Reprinted with Permission)
Music has always been a major part of any culture and counterculture. It always will be. This phenomenon is hard-wired into all human society. Music possesses the power to change a society’s character. The cultural upheavals of the United States during the 1960s are a perfect example of this.
CD Review: Banning Eyre “Bare Songs Vol. 1”
Album Review by Dawoud Kringle
Artist: Banning Eyre
Title: Bare Songs Vol. 1
Format: CD
Label: Lion Songs Records
Genre: African guitar music
Buy CD here: https://didier-garcia-x6sp.squarespace.com/store/bare-songs-vol-1
Banning Eyre requires no introduction for those of you who are regular readers of doobeedoobeedoo.info and members or friends of MFM.
An Editorial: The Future of Improvisational Music
Text by Dawoud Kringle
Andre Benjamin (a.k.a. Andre 3000) succeeded with the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo Outkast, collaborated with Beyonce and Erykah Badu, and made his mark as an actor. In 2023, he shocked the music world by releasing New Blue Sun, an all-instrumental collaboration with Carlos Nino, where he played flute. Nothing could have prepared audiences for one of the greatest rappers in hip hop making a bold move into ambient, flute based improvisational music. And against all odds, it was a great success.
Musicians have been improvising music for thousands of years. I could (and occasionally have) write about the musical traditions of ancient and classical cultures where musicians were expected to improvise. In the last several decades, jazz, some arcane offshoots of rock music, and all variations and subgenres have established improvisation as a mainstay in its canon.
