Hailu Mergia – Yene Mircha
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia-yene-mircha-choice/
“Yene Mircha” is an album by Hailu Mergia released in 2019.
It’s been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia’s sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60s starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70s golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to […]
Mereba - Heart of a Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLUtlsYxqpU
From her album ‘The Breeze Grew a Fire'
https://mereba.bandcamp.com/album/the-breeze-grew-a-fire
Inside the First Ever Boiler Room in Ethiopia
The artist known as Ethiopian Records brought a bold and rooted vision to Addis Ababa's first take on the electronic music event.
‘I found the focus to rebuild my life here’: Irish libraries offer much more than books – The Irish Times https://www.byteseu.com/2399470/ #Eritrea #Ethiopia #Ireland #wexford
Intro for Jinja by the Nile Project
https://amf.didiermary.fr/intro-video-jinja-nile-project/
In January 2013, the Nile Project brought together 18 musicians from Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt to experiment with a collaborative creative process that would last 10 days. Each musician brought 2 songs. In the mornings, they taught one another their respective musical languages. in the afternoons, [...]
#Burundi #Egypt #EPK #Ethiopia #Kenya #Rwanda #Sudan #Tanzania
Opika Pende – Africa At 78 RPM
https://amf.didiermary.fr/opika-pende-africa-78-rpm/
“Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM” is a 4-CD collection featuring 100 tracks, released in 2011, taken from rare 78 RPM recordings of African music (1909 to mid-1960s), none of which have ever been issued on CD.
Many African countries appear in this compilation, edited by Jonathan Ward: [...]
#Algeria #Compilation #Egypt #Ethiopia #FullAlbum #Mali #Morocco #Niger #Nigeria #Somalia #Tunisia #OldAfricanMusic
Beauties – Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret – ሸገኔዎች
https://amf.didiermary.fr/aselefech-ashine-getenesh-kebret-beauties/
“Beauties” is a lost classic of the Ethiopian Golden Age, released in 1976. On this 1976 gem of a record, Aselefech Ashine and Getenesh Kebret’s voices intertwine in close harmony, the two “beauties” singing in duet across 10 gorgeous tracks.
The Army Band, which backed greats like Tlahoun Gesesse and Mahmoud Ahmed, brings [...]
Ebne Hakim – Tsehaye (sun in Amharic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSuaeGRo30
Ethiopian Soul Music?
#AfricanNews accounts to follow:
➡️ @thecontinent - Pan-African online newspaper run by non-profit based in South Africa
➡️ @TUKOcoke - Kenyan online news site
➡️ @ZekuZelalem - Award-winning investigative reporter covering Ethiopia and Horn of Africa
➡️ @beverly_ochieng - Security & media analyst focused on Africa
➡️ @teachersupdates - Education news in Kenya
➡️ @index - Business news in Mozambique
Nati Ker - Neger Neger | ነገር ነገር
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV4iG4nn5Iw
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou – Souvenirs
https://amf.didiermary.fr/emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou-souvenirs/
“Souvenirs” is the first vocal album by the beloved, sublime, recently departed and much-missed Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.
The release contains profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and turmoil. These are songs of wisdom, loss, mourning, and exile, sung directly into a boombox [...]
Meklit - Abebayehosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_VyveqBXD4
"A song traditionally sung in September by young girls in Ethiopia to welcome the New Year."
From the magazine L’Illustrazione Italiana, 1936 (or 39).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Illustrazione_Italiana
Kibrom Birhane – Here And There
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kibrom-birhane-here-there/
Is Kibrom Birhane the future of Ethiopian jazz?
He has a deep connection to the past and a vision for the future. His keyboard playing and improvisation reaches the deepest depths of the cosmos inside an unlimited musical universe.
Summer 2022 marks the release of Here And There, the new album by the critically acclaimed […]
Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience – Kulun Mankwaleshi
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-black-jesus-experience-kulun-mankwaleshi/
Mulatu Astatke blends his Ethio-jazz with the Melbourne-based group Black Jesus Experience in this extract from their album “To Know Without Knowing” in 2020.
Kulun Mankwaleshi is the arrangement of a traditional Ethiopian wedding song in the uniquely Ethiopian anchi-hoye scale. Both polyrhythmic and polymetric [...]
Kuku Sebsibe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kuku-sebsibe/
Kuku Sebsibe is one of Ethiopia’s premier singers. She has performed with all the top bands of the 70s and 80s including Walias, Roha and Ibex, and is still performing today.
Available for the first time on record, these tracks are all from her first album originally released in 1982 on cassette only. […]
Special shoutout to journalist Zecharias Zelalem doing brilliant investigative work on a part of the world few are covering. This thread is amazing:
➡️ https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/115290520418428596 (Part 1)
➡️ https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/115290922706015620 (Part 2)
➡️ https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/115291272349035871 (Part 3)
You can follow Zelalem at:
➡️ @ZekuZelalem
You can follow the newspaper he was reporting for:
He also reports for Al Jazeera:
➡️ @AlJazeera
#Journalism #InvestigativeJournalism #Africa #Ethiopia #HornOfAfrica #Djibouti
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (RIP)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou/
Since the 80s, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (born in Addis Ababa in 1923) had been living quietly in a small cell of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem (the Debre Genet or “Sanctuary of Paradise” monastery on Ethiopia Street), between God and her piano, after a life shaped by exile, both political and self imposed. […]
Iri Di – Waymala
https://amf.didiermary.fr/iri-di-waymala/
Iri Di is an Ethiopian-French self-taught musician, who navigates between afro rhythms, polyphonic singing, pentatonic and tonal harmonies.
Addis Gurmesa – Talaq Chilota New (ታላቅ ችሎታ ነው)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/addis-gurmesa-talaq-chilota-new/
A deliciously retro sound for this black and white video of Ethiopian singer Addis Gurmesa in 2017.
Taxi Sampler 01 (mixtape)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/taxi-sampler-python-syndicate/
Taxi Sampler: Rhythms & Vibes from the Spirit of Young Africa : GQOM, Afrobass, Ethiopiyawi Electronic… (2016-2019)
[…] a showcase of exclusive and featured beats from Crudo Volta’s documentary series Taxi. Taxi as a project captures contemporary youth and music cultures across African urban cities. [...]
#AfroHouse #Ethiopia #Ghana #GQOM #Mozambique #Nigeria #SouthAfrica #Electro
Tèsfa-Maryam Kidané – Heywèté
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tesfa-maryam-kidane-heywete/
The saxophonist Tèsfa-Maryam Kidané was one of the most remarkable stylists of his generation and between 1965 and 1972 emerged as a brilliant, inspired player. Tesfa Mariam got his start with the Police Orchestra in Asmara. After his stints with the second Ras Band & The All Star Band. He left Ethiopia to study at […]
#70smusic #Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #Instrumental #MulatuAstatké #AfroJazz
https://www.europesays.com/3275071/ Ethiopia’s army promises restraint amid fears of new civil war | Conflict News #África #conflict #Conflicts #DroneStrikes #Eritrea #ethiopia #MiddleEast #military #News #Politics #Sudán #UnitedNations #war
Admas – Sons of Ethiopia
https://amf.didiermary.fr/admas-sons-ethiopia/
Sons of Ethiopia is a fascinating piece of the Ethiopian musical puzzle. Emerging from the community of Ethiopian exiles who had been scattered to the winds by the brutality of the Derg – the military dictatorship that had deposed Haile Selassie – the album was the sound of a new generation.
“Lost” album from 1984, re-released […]
#AfroFunk #Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #FullAlbum #Instrumental #OldAfricanMusic
Jano Band – Darign
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jano-band-darign/
Jano Band is an Ethiopian Rock band, mixing progressive rock with Ethiopian music.
In September 2015, Jano performed live at Club H2O in Addis Ababa with a few songs including Darign. The video went viral on YouTube and the song was re-released as a bonus track on their second album Lerasih New.
The band includes […]
