can't find it on their site though!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Haven't made it down the page yet, I'm still stuck on the samples of vol. 19 (Mahmoud Ahmed). I'd forgotten how much I love this stuff.
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tyler W (tylerw), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jim M (jmcgaw), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Friday, 9 February 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Critics' ChoiceNew CD's Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou"Éthiopiques 21"(Buda Musique)
The pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou is an Ethiopian nun. And her background was not as a popular musician: her upbringing was high-society all the way. In the 1940's she studied in Cairo, under a Polish classical violinist who was at one time the musical director of Emperor Haile Selassie's Imperial Bodyguard Band. Returning to Ethiopia at 21, she was to study in England, but the emperor stepped on the plan. Her hopes crushed, she burrowed into religion. She seems to have made five records of her own music, between 1963 and 1996, and has donated all the proceeds to the poor. She lives in an Ethiopian convent in Jerusalem.
Why does this lovely record seem destined for some kind of long cult life, and what is it doing in a column devoted to pop and jazz? It is the new volume of "Éthiopiques," an astounding series of folkloric and pop music from Ethiopia that doubtless draws more listeners from popular than classical music. But there's another reason, too. While the sound of this musician's pensive, repetitive drawing-room études owes something to Beethoven, Schumann and Debussy — although they are studded with little arpeggios special to Ethiopian music — there is a dusky, early-blues quality to much of it. If you've heard some jazz, you could think it was written by Mary Lou Williams or Duke Ellington in their own moments of making their own quiet, original drawing-room music. BEN RATLIFF
― H in Addis (Heruy), Friday, 9 February 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tyler W (tylerw), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― whatever i do, it's right (teenagequiet), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― whatever i do, it's right (teenagequiet), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
bbc doc about emahoy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mb1ft + https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/17/ethiopia-93-year-old-singing-nun-emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
cool
Ethiopiques S/D
Some talk on other Ethiopiques thread about Ethiopian church pianists as well
Girma Yifrashewa
Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou also mentioned there as well
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
She's even more charming than I could imagine.
― pavane to the darryl of strawberry (bendy), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
haha yeah ... and good to hear she's got a bunch of other recordings stockpiled.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou/
― just sayin, Thursday, 31 December 2020 11:29 (three years ago) link
A very nice essay. First time I heard her, it felt like I'd known the music for a hundred years.
― Citole Country (bendy), Saturday, 9 January 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link