I don’t know much of Tigist Shibabaw except that I first heard her voice on bole2harlem’s album. Needless to say how much I appreciated that album because it was pure quality. Yesterday night I heard she passed away unexpectedly. No details were given on what happened but this is truly sad. She had an amazing [...]
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One of those things that starts in a conversation at midnight on a regular day in a regular year. Our own .mike was swept of his feet… some eleven months ago… to the challenge myself try to beat the odds by supporting him.” According to him. I heard him and my issue and apparently every [...]
Published by January 8th, 2008 in Current Issues, History and Noteworthy.(Updated) Hi I’m Mike. For those of you who know me, I am sure by now you know how keenly I have been supporting Barack Obama for his presidential bid in the past 10 months or so. Honestly, the sheer thrill of being part of something bigger than I has been the most rewarding experience [...]
Published by December 1st, 2007 in Current Issues, Noteworthy and Personal.Aka Could I have been any luckier? My love for Ethiopian music started at a very young age. Both my parents loved music, my mother was a huge fan of traditional music whereas my father loved the modern. Between the two of them I was made aware of the sounds ranging from Kassa Tessema and [...]
Published by October 12th, 2007 in Music, Noteworthy and Podcast.Roots is part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, it is also the very foundation or source; origin; base; beginning More than the preliminary usages of the word root, it also used in connotations with other words, the disambiguation’s are endless. It is [...]
