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Digital Single Review: Peterpeter’s “Heavy Traffic”

Review by Dawoud Kringle

PeterpeterArtist: Peterpeter
Title: Heavy Traffic
Format: single (digital)
Label: self-produced
Genre: experimental/electronics/improv/progressive rock

MFM members Peter Wetzler and Peter Einhorn from Kingston (NY) have teamed up to bring us some very fascinating music.

Keyboardist, composer, and writer Peter Wetzler is not sure how he became interested in music. He relates the story his mother told him of when he was five, she brought him near a beehive to hear the “music of the bees.” With a background in classical piano and an eclectic spectrum of musical influences, he has worked extensively in film, television, theater, dance, and music education. He was quoted as saying “My music merges emotion and intuition.”

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Kaveh Haghtalab

Kaveh Haghtalab, A Closer Look at an Iranian Musician in New York

Interview by Dawoud Kringle (DK)

Kaveh Haghtalab

Photo by Yasi Omrani

DooBeeDooBeeDoo NY interviewed Iranian musician Kaveh Haghtalab (KH) (https://doobeedoobeedoo.info/kaveh-haghtalab-an-iranian-musicians-perspective-of-nys-music-scene/). This is part two of that interview, where we delve deeper into Kaveh’s experiences and work as a musician.

DK: You’ve been involved with several bands in New York since you moved here in 2012, one of which is SoSaLa. How did you become involved with them?

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Peter Gordon

Two New Digital Releases by Sax Maestro Peter Gordon

Wow…Gordon made friends with Captain Beefheart and spent time at Beefheart’s home studio while he was recording Trout Mask Replica!

Reviews by Dawoud Kringle

Peter Gordon Artist: Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra
Title: Piety Street Adjacent
Format: album
Label: Adjacent Records
Genre: Downtown Music/NO WAVE/electronic funky music
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MFM Supports Ongoing Strikes by Writers and Actors Unions!

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) expired on May 1, 2023, and the union struck on May 2.

Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) agreement with the AMPTP expired June 30, 2023, and they struck on July 14.

AMPTP includes Amazon/MGM, Apple, Disney/ABC/Fox, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount/CBS, Sony, Warner Bros. Discovery (HBO), among others.

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