EP 21: Karl Evangelista on the Bay Area Improvised Music Scene - a podcast by Musicians For Musicians, MFM

"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

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