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EP 21: Karl Evangelista on the Bay Area Improvised Music Scene
MFM SPEAKS OUT
English - December 11, 2020 14:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBMusic Interviews Music Business Entrepreneurship adam reifsteck dawoud kringle mfm music activism musician interview musicians for musicians musicians rights professional musicians Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
"An Alternative (music business) infrastructure is one of the things that helps us keep this sustainable."
In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, Dawoud Kringle interviews Oakland, California based guitarist Karl Evangelista is among the new wave of 21st century experimental / improvisational musicians. His work blends contemporary improvised music with popular song, 20th century composition, psychedelic rock, free jazz, and multicultural concepts. The topics discussed include his beginnings and inspiration as a professional improvisational / experimental musician, his work with Oliver Lake, Fred Frith, Eddie Gale, Trevor Watts, Hafiz Modizradeh, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell and many others, his involvement in music education (including lecturing at UC Berkeley and directed guitar ensembles at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts and San Francisco Waldorf High School, and as a licensed instructor in the Kinderguitar method), his prolific recording output, his GREX project with Rei Scampavia, his iconoclastic interpretation of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, his approach to the music business, the production of four "Lockdown Festivals" during the coronavirus pandemic, music activism, and his involvement with MFM.
Visit Karl Evangelista at grexsounds.com
The following music featured in this episode are
Opening track: "Apura!" by Karl Evangelista w/Alexander Hawkins, Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Trevor Watts
Middle track: "The Other Mouses: by Grex
Ending track: "Acknowledgement: A Love Supreme" by Grex
Credits
Producer and host: Dawoud Kringle
Publisher: Musicians For Musicians (MFM), Inc. and Sohrab Saadat Ladjvardi
Technical support: Adam Reifsteck
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