Much of the acclaim granted to self-termed "progressive future soul" artist Muhsinah Abdul-Karim has come through featured vocal spots on albums by higher-profile musicians, although she has issued accomplished material on her own. A Washington, D.C. native who later moved to Brooklyn, she was classically trained as a pianist, studied music at Howard, and developed into a studio do-it-all. Her earliest notable appearances came on tracks by Stacy Epps, Little Brother, and Nicholas Ryan Gant. Through 2015, as Abdul-Karim regularly added to her list of collaborations with the likes of Oddisee, Eric Lau, and Lil John Roberts, she released a handful of singles and EPs. At the start of 2016, she set about issuing a regular series of EPs, each volume named for its month of release. ~ Andy Kellman