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Musicians For Musicians
Musicians For Musicians is the musicians' advocacy foundation that engages in the fight for your rights as a musician. We are a collective of freelance music professionals uniting to advocate for FAIR PAY, respect, and equitable treatment for all musicians. MFM supports political actions leading to the amendment of the “Safe Harbor” provision (section 512) of the DMCA. And it backs the American Music Fairness Act, which demands that musicians be paid for AM/FM radio airplay.
In 2015, saxophonist Sohrab Sadaat Ladjevardi (a.k.a. SoSaLa) approached me with the idea of a musicians' rights activist foundation. After much discussion, planning, and trial and error, MFM was founded. I am the first member, a former board member, former host and co-producer of MFM's podcasts MFM Speaks Out, and a main contributor of ideas and literary visions to doobeedoobeedoo.info, the flagship online magazine for MFM.
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Spaghetti Eastern Electro-Dub - SEED
Founded by Saugerties-based guitarist, iconoclast, and polymath Sal Cataldi, Spaghetti Eastern Electro Dub manifests in many forms: Sal's upstate New York ensembles, solo performances, film soundtracks, and.... the New York City area SEED.
It began on the night of Eid-ul Fitr (Thursday, April 20th, 2023, for all you "normies"). Musicians For Musicians was hosting a performance by Australian composer/multi-instrumentalist Keyna Wilkins, in the People's Republic of Brooklyn. Sal Cataldi and Dawoud the Renegade Sufi were guests. It was the first time they'd played together, and it clicked. Not long afterward, Sal asked Dawoud to join a new incarnation of Spaghetti Eastern for a performance. The rest is history.
Noteworthy is the live album of Spaghetti Eastern Electro-Dub's performance at Green Kill Gallery in Kingston, NY. Featuring Sal Cataldi (guitar), Dirk Drazen (drums), Tom "Spontaneous" Semioli (bass), and Dawoud Kringle (dautar), Live at Green Kill Gallery is a magical moment where improvisation produces the most delightfully unexpected results.
“A great sound.” Jah Wobble, Dub Bass Pioneer, Public Image Ltd.
“Kilimanjaro” captures the essence of a jam that blends elements of dub, Indian raga, and psychedelic improvisation into a textured and evolving instrumental piece... The track opens with a downtempo dub-inspired groove, anchored by Tom “Spontaneous” Semioli’s bass lines and propelled by Dirk Drazen’s steady drumming. Cataldi and Dawoud “The Renegade Sufi” Kringle add melodic improvisations on guitar and the Dautar—a custom hybrid of sitar, cello, and guitar. Loops, delays, and analog effects shape the evolving sound, which fuses retro psychedelia with modal improvisation... Kilimanjaro (Radio Edit) clearly exemplifies Cataldi’s collaborative, improvisatory method and highlights his ongoing interest in fusing Eastern modal approaches with electric jazz and psychedelic textures." Electronica UK
"With grooves that switch mid-song between swing and straight rhythms, this is a fantastic album to sink your teeth into — whether you’re zoning out on heady instrumentals or looking for inspiration as a fellow musician." Daily Gazette/Nippertown.com
New York Composers Circle
The NEW YORK COMPOSERS CIRCLE is an artistic and educational organization dedicated to new music — its creation, its performance, and the development of new audiences. Jacob Goodman founded it in the spring of 2002 as an association of composers meeting regularly to play their music for one another. It soon became apparent that we had the artistry and commitment to present our music before an audience. In May 2003, the NYCC produced its first public concert at Saint Peter’s Church, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici and eleven of the NYCC’s original members. Its activities include concerts of new music (currently as many as eight each season), monthly salons at which composers play and discuss new works and works in progress for fellow members and guests and hear talks by various members of the new-music community, an annual competition open only to nonmembers, and a program of outreach concerts to benefit the broader community and to attract new concert audiences.
In 2019, Dawoud applied for membership and submitted his orchestral fantasia and two string quartets for consideration. He was accepted and has been a member ever since.
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