ETHIOPIA – ÉTHIOPIE Musica dell' / Music of Etiopia – Albatros – VPA 8230

ETHIOPIA – ÉTHIOPIE

Musica dell' / Music of Etiopia – Albatros – VPA 8230, recorded by Chet A. Wollner and Lin Lerner in 1973 (LP)

I’m delighted to present this reissue of a terrific Ethnic Folkways album on the Italian Albatros label, featuring rare recordings of various ethnic/cultural groups from southwestern Ethiopia, including the Wollamo, Hanafa, Gernu, Tigray, Adjuran, Gidole, Falasha, Borana, Burgi and Konso peoples. These fluid and sensuous abstract sonorities, performed during collective rituals and daily activities, showcase enthralling, stately sounds with male and female vocals, flutes and panpipes, horns, krar lyres, masinKo, or masenqo single-stringed lutes, percussion, clapping and exclamations.

Je suis ravi de présenter cette réédition d'un formidable album Ethnic Folkways sur le label italien Albatros, avec des enregistrements rares de divers groupes ethniques/culturels du sud-ouest de l'Éthiopie, notamment les peuples Wollamo, Hanafa, Gernu, Tigray, Adjuran, Gidole, Falasha, Borana, Burgi et Konso. Ces sonorités abstraites fluides et sensuelles, jouées lors de rituels collectifs ou d'activités quotidiennes, présentent des sons captivants et majestueux comprenant des voix masculines et féminines, diverses flûtes, des cors, des lyres krar, des vièles à archet monocorde masinKo, ou masenqo, des percussions, des battements de mains et des exclamations.

Wollamo people

A1 – Kammba drum solo by Malko Bokie;

A2 – Ten-foot-long woyisha bamboo cow horn;

 

Hanafa people

A3 – Faro;

 

Gernu people

A4 – Borquekka (ox song);

A5 – Ox song & chant;

 

Tigray people

A6 – Washint instrumental with three flute players;

A7 – Gojjam Endenesh (a place with plenty of honey) with krar lyres, masenqo single-stringed lutes and shephard’s flute;

 

Adjuran people

A8 – Formal introduction of a man to a woman;

 

Gidole people

B1a – Hanafa horn;

B1b – Filla flute;

B1c – Mira pan pipes;

B1d – Filla flute;

B1e – Ioiata horn;

B2 – Flute ensemble;

 

Falasha people

B3 – Sabbath service;

 

Borana people

B4 – Hermana (bringing the cattle to the water);

 

Burgi people

B5 – Siyawe (wedding song);

 

Konso people

B6 – Guretta (greeting song).

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Our other Ethiopian music posts:

Azmari Music of the Amharas – Anthology AST 6000, 1967 here

Polyphonies des Dorzé – Le Chant du Monde, 1975 here

Amharas & Nouer – Alpha 1019, 1969 here

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