This is where I post some of the songs I was kindly asked to bring from Addis during a short visit. M. Ahmed,T. Gesesse,Tefera Kassa,Esatu Tessema & Tezera Haile Michael The first song featured is "Yehem Ale Leka" by Girma Tefera. The original was sang by his father, Tefera Kassa, when he was with the [...]
Archive for 2007
It might seem like we have been quite the last four weeks or so, but it hasn’t been quite. We had the launch of the Bernos Press on January 17th. It was a huge success more so than anyone expected. We quadrupled the number of page loads per day for the Bernos domain; to about [...]
Published by February 8th, 2007 in Bernos and Design.Continuing series I & series II; the third and final song picked … The interest being on the song rather than the artist; these are songs which I personally deem greatest songs in modern Ethiopian music history. I was trapped between two songs which I felt had so much importance culturally in the last 20 [...]
Ethiopians in the Washington DC area are going to gather and watch the superbowl. Some are going to party and some are going to throw the party. Podcasted is a Superbowl party radio commercial, I don't know if this is for real or a joke, either way I am not sold, maybe there where not [...]
Selam Hiz’boche –back at you, once more to lecture about an alarming anxiety. The Ethio-male, too often are being depicted as struggling to express themselves emotionally in appropriate ways, unable to think and feel at a deeper level, and sometimes not even good at ‘traditional male’ pursuits, including that of professionally and socially outside of [...]
Published by January 31st, 2007 in Advice.
