Mermaid trio 05/08/2025

Mermaid trio 05/08/2025

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Ethiopian jazz music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo5QywHt5fo

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TRANSCRIPT

0:01 [Music] hey this is ed from the gray area welcome to through the years an ethio 0:07 jazz special [Music] 0:47 um [Music] 1:25 hey 1:30 [Music] 1:53 uh [Music] 3:05 do [Music] 3:45 hmm [Music] 4:05 [Music] 4:33 hmm 4:39 [Music] 4:45 [Applause] [Music] 5:24 our journey begins actually way back before ethio jazz was even an idea 5:29 we look back to nurses nalbandian composer and conductor of armenian heritage 5:35 his family fled the genocide in turkey around 1915 and settled in ethiopia where his uncle kurvok nalbandian became 5:42 a renowned musician nurses took over the mantle of head of national opera and his uncle retired and 5:48 emperor haile selassie tasked him with composing music for the national theatre 5:54 nurses wanted to take local music to the stage with a big band sound without losing its authenticity 5:59 it was solving this problem way back in the 1950s that laid the groundwork for what was to come 6:06 [Music] 6:19 so now we move on to ethio jazz proper what better place to start than the father of the sound mulatto estate 6:26 born in 1943 in jimmer he took up studies in wales of all places where he discovered a passion for music and the 6:32 arts he then went on to study classical music at trinity college london working with the best and brightest of the uk jazz 6:38 scene at the time he wanted to promote and share ethiopian music though whilst also delving deeper 6:44 into this newly discovered jazz music he eventually moved to america and went to the berkeley college of music in 6:50 boston where he forged the blueprint for the ethio jazz sound merging western 12-note harmonies and instrumentation 6:57 with the traditional ethiopian pentatonic scales [Music] 7:05 in the 1960s he moves again this time to new york and this is where ethio jazz was really born 7:11 establishing an ethiopian quartet and recording three albums the first two more of a latin infused 7:17 affair but 1972's mulatto of ethiopia gave birth to the sound we now know and 7:22 love let's take a listen to chiffada taken from the milata of ethiopia lp 7:27 a track where you can very much still hear that latin influence particularly in the introduction [Music] 7:45 [Applause] [Music] so 7:51 [Music] 8:01 so [Music] 8:32 so [Music] 9:00 so [Music] 9:39 [Music] 9:54 uh [Music] 10:31 bye [Music] 11:05 so [Music] 11:48 so [Music] 12:00 so [Music] 12:23 oh [Music] 12:34 [Applause] [Music] 12:44 hey [Music] 13:00 ah 13:05 [Music] 13:18 [Music] 13:58 not too much later mulatto decided to return to addis ababa and brought with him this new genre of music but was met 14:04 with resistance one of only two african nations never to have suffered colonisation the people of 14:10 ethiopia were suspicious of any form of cultural contamination and as such weren't sure about step k's 14:16 brand of westernized ethiopian music but with enough determination and insistence on the virtuoso's part the nation soon 14:23 came to accept it with open arms a new sound for a modern ethiopia 14:28 yakatit ethio jazz was his first album recorded in addis and features an incredible collection of musicians 14:34 fercado amde mezcal and mogus hate on saxophone rhodesian born andrew wilson and fellow 14:40 ethiopian giovanni rico on guitar tamare harigu on drums and johannes te kola on 14:47 trumpet te kola would go on to lead the walia's band the backing group for hailu mergia 14:53 more on him later for now let's have some more music this time from the yakiti lp 14:58 a smoky mystical number by the name of gobelier [Music] 15:32 foreign [Music] 15:44 so [Music] 15:55 so [Music] 16:21 my [Music] 17:13 [Applause] bass 17:20 [Music] 17:36 so 17:43 [Music] 18:03 so [Music] 18:29 so [Music] 18:44 [Applause] [Music] 19:04 so [Music] 19:13 whilst a hugely important figure in the scene of course mulatto isn't the only ethio jazz musician of note of the 19:19 all-time greats of worldwide renown includes saxophonist getachew mercuria as well as vocalists mahmoud ahmed and 19:25 alameo shetty but of course there are plenty more unsung heroes who perhaps haven't 19:30 achieved the same level of international success let's hear from one of those here played in a clapper style is seifu 19:37 johannes with melamela 19:55 [Music] 20:03 foreign [Music] 20:27 [Applause] [Music] 20:40 foreign [Music] 20:53 foreign [Music] 21:06 foreign [Music] 21:16 me 21:29 [Music] 21:46 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 21:54 ah uh 21:59 [Music] 22:16 so let's now take a moment to discuss mahmoud ahmed one of the first singers to embrace this new western sound brought by mulatto to 22:23 ethiopia the release of his ear melamela album is a landmark in the genre 22:28 featuring the previously mentioned mezcal enrico as members of ibex band mahmoud's voice rings out with a 22:34 spiritual fervor sometimes deep and hypnotic and at times soaring and empowering 22:39 he's my personal favorite artist from the genre so i'm going to take this opportunity to play a couple of tracks back-to-back to begin to demonstrate the 22:46 diversity of his performances first up from his 1973 self-titled lp 22:52 column then we'll follow up with something from later 1978 the deeply spiritual sounding 22:59 fetsum dinklage 23:11 [Music] 23:31 whoa 23:37 [Music] 24:03 foreign [Music] 24:31 my [Music] 25:00 [Music] 25:09 [Music] a 25:16 [Music] 25:41 i [Music] 25:59 foreign 26:14 do [Music] 26:30 go [Music] 27:09 do 27:29 is [Music] 28:08 [Music] 28:21 foreign [Music] 28:39 [Music] 28:53 [Music] 29:02 [Music] 29:08 [Music] 29:17 [Music] me [Music] 29:36 oh [Music] 29:54 [Music] 30:07 [Music] 30:17 she [Music] 30:24 so [Music] 31:27 [Music] 31:39 [Music] 31:58 [Music] 32:05 so we're next going to take a look at another infamous ethiopian singer alamel 32:11 known by many as the ethiopian james brown but also linked to elvis and sinatra though i personally find these 32:16 comparisons a bit more tenuous eshete was a huge part of the swinging addis scene and took more of a funk 32:23 approach to ethiopian music his huge personality cannot be denied on every one of his tracks like this 32:31 [Music] 33:28 me [Music] 33:40 [Applause] [Music] 33:45 [Applause] [Music] 33:57 yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] 34:12 um 34:23 [Music] 34:37 [Music] 35:17 [Music] 35:28 plan [Music] 35:34 uh 35:48 [Music] 35:54 is [Music] 36:23 me [Music] 36:40 [Applause] [Music] 36:46 me [Music] 36:55 so this golden era of ethiopian music also known as the bell epoch which began in the late 1960s ended all of a sudden 37:02 in 1974 with the arrival of the durg the marxist regime of mengistu 37:10 like many other marxist and communist regimes suppression of western and liberal ideas was a mainstay 37:16 including unfortunately ethio jazz many musicians fled the country or simply stopped performing altogether 37:23 thankfully the downfall of the soviet union meant the communist regime in ethiopia lost their biggest supporter 37:29 and was soon overthrown a democracy was installed and the revival of ethiopian music started in 37:34 1991. i'm now going to play one of my favorite pieces of ethiopian music for you by an artist known as a gutter made 37:40 bayonet i love the vocals on this track the enunciation of some of the sounds of the language just really pop 37:46 the track is entitled bae manesh 37:52 [Music] 38:16 is [Music] 38:42 is [Music] 39:12 foreign [Music] 39:27 [Music] 40:14 do 40:22 [Applause] [Music] 41:04 [Music] 41:11 [Music] 41:18 [Music] 41:30 on the subject of musicians that left their homeland of ethiopia i'd like to touch on the story of a washington-based taxi driver a man i mentioned toward the 41:37 start of the show haile murguia his way around censorship by the derg dictatorship was to produce instrumental 41:44 works as it tended to be lyrics that drew the attention of the government to the music however during a tour of the us in the 41:50 1980s hailu and many of his walia's band decided to stay in america effectively 41:55 ending the band for good hailu still wrote and recorded some music in the years to follow but was effectively lost 42:00 a time until the rediscovery of his music in recent years by the awesome tapes from africa record label reissues 42:06 of his works have now seen him step back into his role as a musician and he tours the world again playing to a new 42:12 generation of fans i had the pleasure of djing alongside him a few years ago and his humility and kindness was 42:17 heartwarming to see here is his track batibati from the way they had guzzo album 42:28 [Music] 43:01 so 43:06 [Music] 43:29 so [Music] 43:44 so [Music] 43:58 so [Music] 44:38 so [Music] 44:51 [Music] so [Music] 45:19 so [Music] 45:35 [Music] so [Music] 45:58 my [Music] 46:58 [Applause] 47:16 me [Music] 47:43 [Music] 48:16 me 48:25 foreign 48:30 [Music] 48:36 [Music] 48:42 [Music] 48:53 huh 49:00 [Music] 49:10 aha [Music] 49:28 hey 49:35 [Music] 50:00 [Music] foreign 50:06 [Music] 50:23 thank you 50:30 [Music] 50:38 foreign following that piece from hailu we heard from muluken malesey with tenesch kelebe 50:45 lai now let's contrast that with something much slower getting right back into it with another piece from the heart of 50:51 garame this time arranged by mulatto estate himself with the track set 50:56 alamene [Music] 51:18 school 51:24 [Music] 51:34 foreign [Music] 51:42 foreign 51:50 [Music] 52:02 is 52:09 [Music] 52:24 [Music] 52:30 lovely 52:38 [Music] 52:57 salazar [Music] 53:14 [Music] 53:21 [Music] a 53:35 [Music] 54:28 [Music] 54:48 um 54:55 [Music] 55:04 yo [Music] 55:16 foreign [Music] 55:32 foreign [Music] 55:51 [Music] 55:59 [Music] 56:04 [Music] 56:13 my now it only seemed right before the end of the show to touch on the ethiopic 56:20 series starting in 1997 francis farcetto a frenchman who traveled to ethiopia and 56:26 discovered so much of the music that we now know as ethio jazz brought it to a western audience 56:32 now a series of 30 cds exploring both ethiopian jazz and traditional styles of music from the country as well as 56:38 eritrea he really did bring this music to a global platform the ethiopic cd series was my personal 56:45 introduction to not only ethiopian jazz but actually music from outside of europe in general 56:51 [Music] many thanks if you've been listening i hope you found this educational a little 56:58 bit more formal than my usual shows something a bit different and to finish off 57:04 another favorite of mine and an absolute barn burner from teshome metaku this is his track hasabe 57:10 once again thanks for listening this has been through the years i've been aired from the gray area i'll catch you on the 57:16 next grey area show you've been locked into newsradio take care of yourselves see you next 57:21 time [Music] 57:36 [Music] 58:02 foreign [Music] 58:10 [Applause] 58:18 [Applause] [Music] uh 58:25 [Music] 58:40 foreign [Music] 58:48 [Music] oh 58:54 [Music] 59:02 [Music] 59:07 me [Music] 59:56 news