Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru
Mississippi Records furnish a very necessary follow-up to Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru’s Spielt Eigene Kompositionen with the eponymous Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru including the remaining eleven pieces from her Éthiopiques 21: Piano Solo CD.
Beloved of almost anyone who has heard her meandering, rhythmically complex piano meditations, Emahoy’s music feels like she’s channelling gestures and sensations from another dimension, which probably makes sense when you consider that she was ordained a nun at age 19, before subsequently studying the sacred music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and eventually fleeing to the Ethiopian Monastery of Jerusalem because of a conflict between her beliefs and the marxist regime of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam.
There is no pretension or conceit to Emahoy’s style; it is beautifully vibrant yet melancholy, comparable with the most affective American Blues yet, still, far out on its own plane of musical perception.
One to cherish.
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Mississippi Records furnish a very necessary follow-up to Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru’s Spielt Eigene Kompositionen with the eponymous Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru including the remaining eleven pieces from her Éthiopiques 21: Piano Solo CD.
Beloved of almost anyone who has heard her meandering, rhythmically complex piano meditations, Emahoy’s music feels like she’s channelling gestures and sensations from another dimension, which probably makes sense when you consider that she was ordained a nun at age 19, before subsequently studying the sacred music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and eventually fleeing to the Ethiopian Monastery of Jerusalem because of a conflict between her beliefs and the marxist regime of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam.
There is no pretension or conceit to Emahoy’s style; it is beautifully vibrant yet melancholy, comparable with the most affective American Blues yet, still, far out on its own plane of musical perception.
One to cherish.
Mississippi Records furnish a very necessary follow-up to Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru’s Spielt Eigene Kompositionen with the eponymous Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru including the remaining eleven pieces from her Éthiopiques 21: Piano Solo CD.
Beloved of almost anyone who has heard her meandering, rhythmically complex piano meditations, Emahoy’s music feels like she’s channelling gestures and sensations from another dimension, which probably makes sense when you consider that she was ordained a nun at age 19, before subsequently studying the sacred music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and eventually fleeing to the Ethiopian Monastery of Jerusalem because of a conflict between her beliefs and the marxist regime of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam.
There is no pretension or conceit to Emahoy’s style; it is beautifully vibrant yet melancholy, comparable with the most affective American Blues yet, still, far out on its own plane of musical perception.
One to cherish.
Mississippi Records furnish a very necessary follow-up to Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru’s Spielt Eigene Kompositionen with the eponymous Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru including the remaining eleven pieces from her Éthiopiques 21: Piano Solo CD.
Beloved of almost anyone who has heard her meandering, rhythmically complex piano meditations, Emahoy’s music feels like she’s channelling gestures and sensations from another dimension, which probably makes sense when you consider that she was ordained a nun at age 19, before subsequently studying the sacred music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and eventually fleeing to the Ethiopian Monastery of Jerusalem because of a conflict between her beliefs and the marxist regime of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam.
There is no pretension or conceit to Emahoy’s style; it is beautifully vibrant yet melancholy, comparable with the most affective American Blues yet, still, far out on its own plane of musical perception.
One to cherish.
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Mississippi Records furnish a very necessary follow-up to Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru’s Spielt Eigene Kompositionen with the eponymous Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru including the remaining eleven pieces from her Éthiopiques 21: Piano Solo CD.
Beloved of almost anyone who has heard her meandering, rhythmically complex piano meditations, Emahoy’s music feels like she’s channelling gestures and sensations from another dimension, which probably makes sense when you consider that she was ordained a nun at age 19, before subsequently studying the sacred music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and eventually fleeing to the Ethiopian Monastery of Jerusalem because of a conflict between her beliefs and the marxist regime of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam.
There is no pretension or conceit to Emahoy’s style; it is beautifully vibrant yet melancholy, comparable with the most affective American Blues yet, still, far out on its own plane of musical perception.
One to cherish.