When Smoke Rises R&B from-the-gut performance

from-the-gut performance

02 New Madrid

Texas-based singer

with Parliament-Funkadelic blasting in the background…

OCMS has an old-time quality in their songs and delivery that easily fools the listener into thinking they’re spinning a group from the ’40s or ’50s

When Smoke Rises R&B from-the-gut performanceOn his debut solo album, the Toronto artist formerly known as Mustafa the Poet confronts grief and dispossession over understated production with folk music overtones. When Smoke Rises is Mustafa Ahmeds first full length album as a solo artist, but its just the latest volume in his growing library of dispatches from Torontos Regent Park neighborhood. Ahmed, a founding member of rap collective Halal Gang, used to be known as Mustafa the Poet, having