Ethiopia News News Ethiopia » Music: Sons of Ethiopia: A Snapshot of Admas and D.C. Music in the 1980s
Admas draws from and rearranges “golden era” Ethiopian music with then-fairly-new synthesizer and drum-machine rhythms. Steve Kiviat Admas. From left, clockwise: Abegasu Shiota, Henock Temesgen, ...
News Ethiopia » Music: The Midnight Synthesizer: How Teddy Mak’s Curfew-Era Defiance Rewrote the Sound of Ethiopia
At the center of this midnight rebellion was Teodros Mekonnen—known to the world as Teddy Mak—hunched over his keys, coaxing futuristic, electronic sounds out of the dark. Today, electronic production ...
News Ethiopia » Music: Mulatu Astatke: Spreading ethio-jazz to the world
Astatke's music was used in the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: ...
News Ethiopia » Music: The father of Ethiopian jazz, Mulatu Astatke, remains a musician in motion
Ethiopian jazz master Mulatu Astatke took a break from his extensive 2018 European concert tour to play at the 19th Cape Town International Jazz Festival. This should come as no surprise given that he ...
News Ethiopia » Music: Lost Funk Masterpieces Of Ethiopia
Record collectors of the hip-hop generation first discovered the music of Ethiopia's Mulatu Astatke in the early 1990s. At that time, dealers at the legendary Roosevelt Hotel Record Convention in ...
News Ethiopia » Music: Debo Band: Ethiopian Funk, Reinvented
Boston's Debo Band takes inspiration from a golden era of popular music in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the late '60s and early '70s. During a brief period of cultural freedom in Ethiopia, funk and soul ...
News Ethiopia » Music: Ph.D. student studies music and conflict in Ethiopia
Originally drawn to Ethiopia because of its historical uniqueness and non-western music, a Ph.D. student is now researching how music and conflict intersect in the country. Sarah Bishop, a Ph.D.
News Ethiopia » Music: Éthiopiques: Mulatu Astatke and the Story of Ethiopian Jazz
Falcetto was a promoter of music when he first heard Ethiopian music in 1984. As he explained when I met him, “A friend of mine was a stage manager for a theatre troupe who had been touring Africa and ...
News Ethiopia » Music: Hachalu Hundessa: charismatic musician who wasn’t afraid to champion Ethiopia’s Oromo
Anyone who steps into the public sphere in Ethiopia is also a potential political leader. In this atmosphere, an outspoken musician runs a high risk of falling foul of the authorities. The country is ...