GEBREMARIAM, AWALOM - DESDES

GEBREMARIAM, AWALOM - DESDES

CD (Compact Disc)

Login for pricing & ordering.

 

Label: AWESOME TAPES F

Release date: 15/04/2016

Barcode: 0751937436126

Catalog no.: ATFACD0000020

Item ID: 429981

Awalom completed 'Desdes' in 2007, not long before he departed
Eritrea. Because Awalom left after the recording, he never
received any money for cassette and CD sales. But he also
didn't get to find out how much of an impact the songs have had
locally. His songs appear to focus on love, but Awalom doesn't
speak about romantic love per se. Much of the music Awalom
heard as he grew up was intertwined with Eritrea's difficult
and contentious split from Ethiopia. He spent years waiting for
the chance to escape economic and political turmoil at home.
Nowadays living in North Carolina, Awalom works in a restaurant and plans to bring his music to Eritrean communities across
North America, as well as to other listeners with whom his
powerful sounds will deeply resonate.

Also available: DESDES (2LP) (LP).

Ordering

Are you a private user? Order this item through our mailorder.

Are you a business user? Please login to add items to your basket.

More GEBREMARIAM, AWALOM...


GEBREMARIAM, AWALOM - DESDES (2LP)

GEBREMARIAM, AWALOM - DESDES (2LP)

Awalom completed 'Desdes' in 2007, not long before he departed Eritrea. Because Awalom left after the recording, he never received any money for cassette and CD sales. But he also didn't get to find out how much of an impact the songs have had locally. His songs appear to ... read more »

 

 

More on the AWESOME TAPES F label...


PENNY PENNY - SHAKA BUNDU (2LP)

The debut recording by a South-African musician, dating from 1994. Dominated by slow tempo house rhythms rising and falling against his anthemic vocal exultations and steel drum synth sounds. Variations on call and response singing with a female chorus has been a ... read more »

 

UMOJA - 707

UMOJA - 707

On vinyl, this is a reissue of Umoja's 1988 South African "bubblegum" classic '707'. This kind of bubblegum music was defined by its call-and-response vocals and catchy synthesizer-led melodies. Back in the day, it was all about escaping from apartheid.

 

KOITE, SOURAKATA - EN HOLLANDE

KOITE, SOURAKATA - EN HOLLANDE

Senegalese kora master Sourakata Koite began music from pretty much day one. "All the Koite are musicians!," he says. Indeed he is a member of a family of djeli (or griot in French), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians in West Africa. After ... read more »

 

BEKONO, ROGER - ROGER BEKONO

BEKONO, ROGER - ROGER BEKONO

Roger Bekono made a deep mark in the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through the intensity of the Bikutsi style. The Ewondo-language dance-pop style that forms an undulating tapestry of interlocking triplet rhythmic interplay came to international prominence in ... read more »

 

MUJURU, EPHAT -& THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE- - MBAVAIRA

MUJURU, EPHAT -& THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE- - MBAVAIRA

Ephat Mujuru exemplifies a unique generation of traditional musicians in Zimbabwe. Born under an oppressive colonial regime in Southern Rhodesia, his generation witnessed the brutality of the 1970s liberation struggle, and then the dawn of independent Zimbabwe, a time in ... read more »

 

NZIENGUI, PAPE -ET SON GROUPE- - KADI YOMBO

NZIENGUI, PAPE -ET SON GROUPE- - KADI YOMBO

'Kadi Yombo', originally released in 1989, is the most successful album in the quest for a fusion between tradition and modernity in Bwiti harp music of the Tsogho people of Gabon. Combining beating rattles with a layer of synthesizers, Papé Nziengui blends in a ... read more »

 

 


Clear Spot - clearspot.nl

Clear Spot International BV
Hermelijnkoog 21
1822CA Alkmaar
The Netherlands

T. + 31 (0)72 567 9990
F. + 31 (0)84 229 8862

E. info@clear-spot.nl
W. www.clear-spot.nl

Deze website gebruikt cookies. Meer info. / This website uses cookies. More info.