Archive for February, 2007



Oldies But Goodies I 636 Comments

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 [...]

Not Quite… 73 Comments

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 [...]

Crowning III 18 Comments

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 [...]

Injera Superbowl 28 Comments

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 [...]