Ethiopia
Piassa OutPost
http://blog.121234.net
18th - 26th May- Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:46:13 +0000Sunday May 18th Mesele organized a minibus to take us to the Sodere Hotel to chill out. It is the place we visited with Sibylle (Shunnun Adjit - her given Gurage name) and Wattut, three weeks before. Now, we first make a stop at Lake Hora, the vulcanic crater lake near Debre Zeyt. It is again [...] |
12th - 17th May- Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:46:28 +0000Monday May 12th Early in the morning Kifle knocks on the door because he needs a photographer for the Baptism of his baby. I put on my new suit for the occasion -what an occasion!-, and at six in the morning we stand in the baptism department of the Georgis church. The ceremony follows a cleaning [...] |
1st - 10th May- Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:01:36 +0000Thursday May 1st Tonight Fredi Wattut is taking the plane home. We organize a little farewell dinner for him in the Addis Abeba Restaurant. His beard remains fascinating for most Ethiopian(girl)s hence his name ((Wattut means milk in Gurage language). Also Amha the great, responsible for lending me his SIM card for three months (!), takes [...] |
24th - 30th April- Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:26:34 +0000Thursday 24th The afternoon is with Melaku in the Piassa area where we eat, how can it be else, some fish. In the evening the Salamandres are going on an Azmari Bet tour after their rehearsal and we (Fredi, Sibylle and me) are invited to come along. Their other production worker Pedros (in french he is [...] |
18th - 23rd April- Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:27:25 +0000Friday 18th In the evening I make a long walk to Mariam Church at Ammist Kilo. It is quite a nice place to make recordings, because of the traffic/church/musicsellers on the road. Making the recording standing there for about an hour is a sort of sensitivity training. It is very crowded, because of fasting time full [...] |
13th - 17th April- Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:19:54 +0000Sunday 13th April In the afternoon I do some Ayechew -the Kebero drummer- investigations. He picks up the phone and is doing well, and completely suits his business card title 'General Manager'. Apart from being a great drummer one can also order a Krar with him, or nowadays even get minibus services. We go to a [...] |
6th - 12th April- Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:51:44 +0000Sunday 6th April Practice at Mesele's again, we try to make it good for the first concert we have on saturday. Things go pretty much easier with some bottom level of the day before. The first time I heard Ethiopian melodies, I had the impression they were all improvised. Hearing them some more, it comes out [...] |
28th March - 5th April- Sun, 04 May 2008 15:26:53 +0000Friday 28th Kifle sets me up with his taylor to go to the Mercato. We have to find some nice fabric for my 2-piece. We first go to a 50/50 place, where I cannot find something nice. The next stop is at the 100% place. The percentage tells the amount of real wool in it. "Wenn [...] |
21st - 27th March- Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:39:05 +0000Friday 21st In the morning we visit the dutch Embassy to get visa for Getachew and Melaku. It is an ultra modern building, it looks very nice in itself but it's stylish exterior would probably be more on it's place aside the serenity of a finnish lake or the likes instead of the being in the [...] |
17th - 20th March- Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:44:51 +0000Monday 17th Over a mutual friend I got in contact with Aurelie, a singer from Belgium. She will visit Ethiopia for a couple of days on her way to Rwanda. As we wrote each other before leaving to Ethiopia she told me about her investigations to start a music school in Africa. As I just got [...] |