I actually have posted a few finds over the last month, from the films of Habesha Life and music video of Munit. As a whole it seems like the Ethiopian readers of bernos are very harsh critics of the arts they are provided for free. It seems to me like there are disproportionately higher numbers [...]
Published by April 29th, 2009 in Current Issues, Music and Social.Archive for April, 2009
Over the past few years, this phenomenon of blogging has taken over the Internet. Personally, the only blog I religiously follow, and this may be because I am biased, is Bernos. Not to say there aren’t any good ones out there, because there are, I just may not know about them or don’t have enough [...]
Published by April 24th, 2009 in Noteworthy and Social.The first time I saw Tilahun live, I couldn’t help the tears that fell down my cheeks. He was so humble when people would come and talk to him. He was on a wheel chair but yet he would try to raise himself up to show respect. There are a few song by Tilahun I [...]
Published by April 20th, 2009 in Current Issues, History, Music and Noteworthy.Noro Noro :: ?? ?? I have often complained whenever I hear new music from Ethiopia or by Ethiopians. Obviously I’ve heard a few sounds over the last 5 years that doesn’t make me cringe. I do not like synthesized music — Melaku Sahluof Addis Connexion wrote a nice piece explaining our complaints as well [...]
Published by April 16th, 2009 in African, Music and Social.We all have heard the stories… the ones that start by saying you know so and so killed his wife or so and so tried to kill her boyfriend and lately I have heard so and so killed his wife and then shot himself to death. Now what I want to know is why do [...]
Published by April 14th, 2009 in Advice and Current Issues.
