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).
Our other Ethiopian music posts:
Azmari Music of the Amharas – Anthology AST 6000, 1967 here
Polyphonies des Dorzé – Le Chant du Monde, 1975 here
Beautiful! Thank You!!!
ReplyDeleteincredible! so much mystery in the music and surprises galore everywhere..where primitive and modernism meet! ....Expect a trance state/chemical reaction....
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDeleteAnd may I add, "What a hat!"