Artist: Mahmoud Ahmed: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Ethnic Discography: Ethiopiques, Vol. 19: Alemye Year: 2005 Tracks: 9 Live in Paris Year: 2003 Tracks: 10 Ethiopiques, Vol. 7: Ere Mela Mela Year: 1999 Tracks: 15 Ethiopiques, Vol. 6: Almaz Year: 1999 Tracks: 11 In Ethiopia the boy is "eskeusta," which rough translated means x, more specifically it is a shaking sensation that begins at one's shoulders, quiver downhearted the spine and into the legs and feet. And of all of the with child male vocalists that Ethiopia has produced (don't jape, thither have been quite an a a few) none are able to make eskeusta better than Mahmoud Ahmed. For 30 long time Mahmoud Ahmed has deftly combined the traditional Amharic music of Ethiopia (basically a five-note scale that features jazz style tattle offset by complex rotary regular recurrence patters which gives the music a clear-cut Indian feel), with pop and jazz yielding some of the most adventurous, passionate, ear-opening, downright phantasmagoric sounds this side of meat of the deepest, darkest, nickname or the to the highest degree out-there free jazz. In fact, until you've heard Ahmed's wholesale multi-octave voice in broad exercise, words hardly do it justice. As with the late with child Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, he simply has to be heard to be believed and appreciated. Ahmed has been a asterisk in Ethiopia almost since the day he began recording. His swooping vocals, complimented by the happy-go-lucky jazziness of the Ibex Band (with whom he recorded his masterpiece Ere Mela Mela) is identical different from what ordinarily is lumped into the broad face afro-pop. The rhythms ar repetitious and acute, not as well different from, say, Fela, precisely a little less hard. But it's Ahmed voice: swirling high notes that heavy as if they're chasing one some other, impeccable shade and choice of words that is the distinguishing element. By tattle in this style Ahmed has attempted to fuse the past and present. He's non an elitist when it comes to singing old Ethiopian music simply preferably he hears the similarities in Ethiopian pop that get thrived over time and is acute to play them together. As the westerly decisive attention to afro-pop centered on the medicine of sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopian artists like Ahmed and Hirut Bekele, Ali Birra, and Alemayhu Eshete were less likely to receive reporting in the music press. Recently, jr. performers such as Aster Aweke (wHO emigrated to the US in the mid-1980s), and Netsanet Mellesse have received more ink thus opening the doors for those so disposed to explore the euphony that influenced the. And for those so inclined that substance becoming conversant with bright, demanding, simply unknown artists such as Mahmoud Ahmed. |
Friday, 5 September 2008
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