Text By Michael Burdi
For Kaveh Haghtalab, music has never belonged neatly to a single genre.
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Kaveh Haghtalab’s Approach to Reimagining Iranian Music
Digital Album Review: Spaghetti Eastern Music “Two Bass Hit”
Reviewed by David Belmont
Artist: Spaghetti Eastern Music
Title: Two Bass Hit
Format: digital album
Label: self-produced
Genre: psychedelic/progressive/indie Rock
Produced by Sal Cataldi.
Co-produced by Tomaso Semioli.
Live sound by Scott Kent
Recorded live at Green Kill Sessions, Kingston, NY
Remix and mastering by Sal Cataldi at Sonic Garden, Saugerties, NY
Available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and other streaming platforms.
Jerome Harris: My Dolly Parton Encounter
Text by Jerome Harris (bassist and guitarist, MFM member)
In the mid-1970s, I was a jazz guitar student at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. For a while, I played tenor banjo and guitar in The New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, a student group founded by the school’s president, composer/conductor/scholar Gunther Schuller, to perform his orchestrations of ragtime music by Scott Joplin and others.
A Hommage to LITTLE FEAT
Text by Bruce Gallanther (DMG Newsletter for August 21st, 2026)
“Rock and Roll Doctor” by Little Feat from Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (released in 1974)
There was a woman in Georgia, didn’t feel just right
She had the fever all day and chills at night
Now things got worse, yes a serious bind
At times like this it takes a man with a style I cannot often find
A doctor of the heart and a doctor of mind
“Asemoon:” The New Single and Video by NY’s Koubeh
Music Review by Dawoud Kringle
Koubeh is the past, present, and future of Persian music.
The New York-based Iranian ensemble Koubeh formed in 2019 and consists of three musicians from the Iranian diaspora. They dedicated themselves to celebrating and reimagining Persian music for contemporary audiences.
