BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 4.7.23//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMWorkCalendar NAME:RMWorkCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mermaid trio 05/08/2025 DTSTAMP:20250508T070011Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:268-5-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":troy@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n Mermaid trio 05/08/2025\n\n\n\n https://www.tumblr.com/ri chardmurrayhumblr/782957995293376512/concurrently-from-aquasonic\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Referral\n\n\n\n https://www.tumblr.com/ richardmurrayhumblr/782957995293376512/concurrently-from-aquasonic?source= share\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n mermaid [ seahorse style] for deviantart color me club \n\n https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/mermaid-hippocamp-sty le-1192254228\n\n\n\n \n\n IN AMENDMENT\n\n\n\n Ethiopian jazz music\n\n h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo5QywHt5fo\n\n\n\n VIDEO\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n TRANSCRIPT\n\n\n\n 0:01\n[Music] hey this is ed from the gray area welcome to through the years an ethio\n0:07\njazz special [Music]\n0:47\nu m [Music]\n1:25\nhey\n1:30\n[Music]\n1:53\nuh [Music]\n3:05\ndo [Music]\n3 :45\nhmm [Music]\n4:05\n[Music]\n4:33\nhmm\n4:39\n[Music]\n4:45\n[Applause ] [Music]\n5:24\nour journey begins actually way back before ethio jazz wa s even an idea\n5:29\nwe look back to nurses nalbandian composer and condu ctor of armenian heritage\n5:35\nhis family fled the genocide in turkey ar ound 1915 and settled in ethiopia where his uncle kurvok nalbandian became \n5:42\na renowned musician nurses took over the mantle of head of nationa l opera and his uncle retired and\n5:48\nemperor haile selassie tasked him with composing music for the national theatre\n5:54\nnurses wanted to tak e local music to the stage with a big band sound without losing its authen ticity\n5:59\nit was solving this problem way back in the 1950s that laid the groundwork for what was to come\n6:06\n[Music]\n6:19\nso now we move o n to ethio jazz proper what better place to start than the father of the s ound mulatto estate\n6:26\nborn in 1943 in jimmer he took up studies in wa les of all places where he discovered a passion for music and the\n6:32\na rts he then went on to study classical music at trinity college london wor king with the best and brightest of the uk jazz\n6:38\nscene at the time h e wanted to promote and share ethiopian music though whilst also delving d eeper\n6:44\ninto this newly discovered jazz music he eventually moved to america and went to the berkeley college of music in\n6:50\nboston where h e forged the blueprint for the ethio jazz sound merging western 12-note ha rmonies and instrumentation\n6:57\nwith the traditional ethiopian pentaton ic scales [Music]\n7:05\nin the 1960s he moves again this time to new york and this is where ethio jazz was really born\n7:11\nestablishing an ethio pian quartet and recording three albums the first two more of a latin infu sed\n7:17\naffair but 1972's mulatto of ethiopia gave birth to the sound w e now know and\n7:22\nlove let's take a listen to chiffada taken from the milata of ethiopia lp\n7:27\na track where you can very much still hear th at latin influence particularly in the introduction [Music]\n7:45\n[Applau se] [Music] so\n7:51\n[Music]\n8:01\nso [Music]\n8:32\nso [Music]\n9:00\ns o [Music]\n9:39\n[Music]\n9:54\nuh [Music]\n10:31\nbye [Music]\n11:05\nso [Music]\n11:48\nso [Music]\n12:00\nso [Music]\n12:23\noh [Music]\n12:34\n[ Applause] [Music]\n12:44\nhey [Music]\n13:00\nah\n13:05\n[Music]\n13:18\n[ Music]\n13:58\nnot too much later mulatto decided to return to addis ababa and brought with him this new genre of music but was met\n14:04\nwith res istance one of only two african nations never to have suffered colonisatio n the people of\n14:10\nethiopia were suspicious of any form of cultural c ontamination and as such weren't sure about step k's\n14:16\nbrand of west ernized ethiopian music but with enough determination and insistence on th e virtuoso's part the nation soon\n14:23\ncame to accept it with open arms a new sound for a modern ethiopia\n14:28\nyakatit ethio jazz was his firs t album recorded in addis and features an incredible collection of musicia ns\n14:34\nfercado amde mezcal and mogus hate on saxophone rhodesian born andrew wilson and fellow\n14:40\nethiopian giovanni rico on guitar tamare harigu on drums and johannes te kola on\n14:47\ntrumpet te kola would go o n to lead the walia's band the backing group for hailu mergia\n14:53\nmore on him later for now let's have some more music this time from the yakiti lp\n14:58\na smoky mystical number by the name of gobelier [Music]\n15:32 \nforeign [Music]\n15:44\nso [Music]\n15:55\nso [Music]\n16:21\nmy [Music] \n17:13\n[Applause] bass\n17:20\n[Music]\n17:36\nso\n17:43\n[Music]\n18:03 \nso [Music]\n18:29\nso [Music]\n18:44\n[Applause] [Music]\n19:04\nso [Mus ic]\n19:13\nwhilst a hugely important figure in the scene of course mulatt o isn't the only ethio jazz musician of note of the\n19:19\nall-time great s of worldwide renown includes saxophonist getachew mercuria as well as vo calists mahmoud ahmed and\n19:25\nalameo shetty but of course there are pl enty more unsung heroes who perhaps haven't\n19:30\nachieved the same leve l of international success let's hear from one of those here played in a c lapper style is seifu\n19:37\njohannes with melamela\n19:55\n[Music]\n20:0 3\nforeign [Music]\n20:27\n[Applause] [Music]\n20:40\nforeign [Music]\n20: 53\nforeign [Music]\n21:06\nforeign [Music]\n21:16\nme\n21:29\n[Music]\n21 :46\n[Applause] [Music] [Applause]\n21:54\nah uh\n21:59\n[Music]\n22:16\ns o let's now take a moment to discuss mahmoud ahmed one of the first singer s to embrace this new western sound brought by mulatto to\n22:23\nethiopia the release of his ear melamela album is a landmark in the genre\n22:28\n featuring the previously mentioned mezcal enrico as members of ibex band m ahmoud's voice rings out with a\n22:34\nspiritual fervor sometimes deep an d hypnotic and at times soaring and empowering\n22:39\nhe's my personal fa vorite 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\n22:46\ndiver sity of his performances first up from his 1973 self-titled lp\n22:52\ncol umn then we'll follow up with something from later 1978 the deeply spiritu al sounding\n22:59\nfetsum dinklage\n23:11\n[Music]\n23:31\nwhoa\n23:37\n[ Music]\n24:03\nforeign [Music]\n24:31\nmy [Music]\n25:00\n[Music]\n25:09\n [Music] a\n25:16\n[Music]\n25:41\ni [Music]\n25:59\nforeign\n26:14\ndo [Mu sic]\n26:30\ngo [Music]\n27:09\ndo\n27:29\nis [Music]\n28:08\n[Music]\n28: 21\nforeign [Music]\n28:39\n[Music]\n28:53\n[Music]\n29:02\n[Music]\n29:08 \n[Music]\n29:17\n[Music] me [Music]\n29:36\noh [Music]\n29:54\n[Music]\n3 0:07\n[Music]\n30:17\nshe [Music]\n30:24\nso [Music]\n31:27\n[Music]\n31:3 9\n[Music]\n31:58\n[Music]\n32:05\nso we're next going to take a look at a nother infamous ethiopian singer alamel\n32:11\nknown by many as the ethio pian james brown but also linked to elvis and sinatra though i personally find these\n32:16\ncomparisons a bit more tenuous eshete was a huge part o f the swinging addis scene and took more of a funk\n32:23\napproach to eth iopian music his huge personality cannot be denied on every one of his tra cks like this\n32:31\n[Music]\n33:28\nme [Music]\n33:40\n[Applause] [Music ]\n33:45\n[Applause] [Music]\n33:57\nyes [Music] [Applause] [Music]\n34:12 \num\n34:23\n[Music]\n34:37\n[Music]\n35:17\n[Music]\n35:28\nplan [Music]\ n35:34\nuh\n35:48\n[Music]\n35:54\nis [Music]\n36:23\nme [Music]\n36:40\n[ Applause] [Music]\n36:46\nme [Music]\n36:55\nso this golden era of ethiopi an music also known as the bell epoch which began in the late 1960s ended all of a sudden\n37:02\nin 1974 with the arrival of the durg the marxist r egime of mengistu\n37:10\nlike many other marxist and communist regimes su ppression of western and liberal ideas was a mainstay\n37:16\nincluding un fortunately ethio jazz many musicians fled the country or simply stopped p erforming altogether\n37:23\nthankfully the downfall of the soviet union m eant the communist regime in ethiopia lost their biggest supporter\n37:29\ nand was soon overthrown a democracy was installed and the revival of ethi opian music started in\n37:34\n1991. i'm now going to play one of my favor ite pieces of ethiopian music for you by an artist known as a gutter made\ n37:40\nbayonet i love the vocals on this track the enunciation of some of the sounds of the language just really pop\n37:46\nthe track is entitled bae manesh\n37:52\n[Music]\n38:16\nis [Music]\n38:42\nis [Music]\n39:12\nf oreign [Music]\n39:27\n[Music]\n40:14\ndo\n40:22\n[Applause] [Music]\n41:0 4\n[Music]\n41:11\n[Music]\n41:18\n[Music]\n41:30\non the subject of music ians that left their homeland of ethiopia i'd like to touch on the story o f a washington-based taxi driver a man i mentioned toward the\n41:37\nstar t of the show haile murguia his way around censorship by the derg dictator ship was to produce instrumental\n41:44\nworks as it tended to be lyrics t hat drew the attention of the government to the music however during a tou r of the us in the\n41:50\n1980s hailu and many of his walia's band decide d to stay in america effectively\n41:55\nending the band for good hailu st ill wrote and recorded some music in the years to follow but was effective ly lost\n42:00\na time until the rediscovery of his music in recent years by the awesome tapes from africa record label reissues\n42:06\nof his work s have now seen him step back into his role as a musician and he tours the world again playing to a new\n42:12\ngeneration of fans i had the pleasur e of djing alongside him a few years ago and his humility and kindness was \n42:17\nheartwarming to see here is his track batibati from the way they had guzzo album\n42:28\n[Music]\n43:01\nso\n43:06\n[Music]\n43:29\nso [Mus ic]\n43:44\nso [Music]\n43:58\nso [Music]\n44:38\nso [Music]\n44:51\n[Musi c] so [Music]\n45:19\nso [Music]\n45:35\n[Music] so [Music]\n45:58\nmy [Mu sic]\n46:58\n[Applause]\n47:16\nme [Music]\n47:43\n[Music]\n48:16\nme\n48: 25\nforeign\n48:30\n[Music]\n48:36\n[Music]\n48:42\n[Music]\n48:53\nhuh\n4 9:00\n[Music]\n49:10\naha [Music]\n49:28\nhey\n49:35\n[Music]\n50:00\n[Mus ic] foreign\n50:06\n[Music]\n50:23\nthank you\n50:30\n[Music]\n50:38\nfore ign following that piece from hailu we heard from muluken malesey with ten esch kelebe\n50:45\nlai now let's contrast that with something much slower getting right back into it with another piece from the heart of\n50:51\ng arame this time arranged by mulatto estate himself with the track set\n50: 56\nalamene [Music]\n51:18\nschool\n51:24\n[Music]\n51:34\nforeign [Music] \n51:42\nforeign\n51:50\n[Music]\n52:02\nis\n52:09\n[Music]\n52:24\n[Music ]\n52:30\nlovely\n52:38\n[Music]\n52:57\nsalazar [Music]\n53:14\n[Music]\n 53:21\n[Music] a\n53:35\n[Music]\n54:28\n[Music]\n54:48\num\n54:55\n[Music ]\n55:04\nyo [Music]\n55:16\nforeign [Music]\n55:32\nforeign [Music]\n55:5 1\n[Music]\n55:59\n[Music]\n56:04\n[Music]\n56:13\nmy now it only seemed r ight before the end of the show to touch on the ethiopic\n56:20\nseries st arting in 1997 francis farcetto a frenchman who traveled to ethiopia and\n 56:26\ndiscovered so much of the music that we now know as ethio jazz brou ght it to a western audience\n56:32\nnow a series of 30 cds exploring both ethiopian jazz and traditional styles of music from the country as well a s\n56:38\neritrea he really did bring this music to a global platform the ethiopic cd series was my personal\n56:45\nintroduction to not only ethiop ian jazz but actually music from outside of europe in general\n56:51\n[Mus ic] many thanks if you've been listening i hope you found this educational a little\n56:58\nbit more formal than my usual shows something a bit diff erent and to finish off\n57:04\nanother favorite of mine and an absolute b arn burner from teshome metaku this is his track hasabe\n57:10\nonce again thanks for listening this has been through the years i've been aired from the gray area i'll catch you on the\n57:16\nnext grey area show you've be en locked into newsradio take care of yourselves see you next\n57:21\ntime [Music]\n57:36\n[Music]\n58:02\nforeign [Music]\n58:10\n[Applause]\n58:18 \n[Applause] [Music] uh\n58:25\n[Music]\n58:40\nforeign [Music]\n58:48\n[M usic] oh\n58:54\n[Music]\n59:02\n[Music]\n59:07\nme [Music]\n59:56\nnews\n \n\n\n  \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250508 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR