GIRMA YIFRASHEWA
Love & Peace
Boomkat Product Review:
The album that pinged Ethiopian pianist Girma Yifrashewa on the modern classical map, 2014’s ‘Love & Peace’ is a gorgeous five part suite of calm, joyful, and subtly evocative recordings laced with a jazz-blues-iness comparable to works by Emahoy Segue-Mariam Gebru or even Alice Coltrane
‘Love & Peace’ holds Yifrashewa’s first music released outside Africa. Born in Addis Ababa, 1967, they would receive formative training on the traditional krar - a type of 5/6 stringed lyre, tuned to pentatonic scale - before encountering the piano aged 16, enrolling at Yared Music School, and subsequently earning a scholarship to study at the Sofia Conservatory, Bulgaria, performing the works of Schumann, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy, as well as Bach and Mozart. By 1998 he began composing his own works, and would establish himself among Africa’s preeminent pianists, renowned for the emotional immediacy and joyful wonder of his playing style. ‘Love & Peace’ renders Yifrashewa in their element, distinguished by a captivating rhythmic flow and breezy elegance that is hard not to be enchanted by.
The album roots Yifrashewa’s music in Ethiopia with the tongue tip beauty and space evoked by ‘The Shepherd with the Flute’, his homage to ‘The Shepherd Flutist’ by Ashenafi Kebede, whose passing in 1998 prompted the young pianist to pursue his own compositions. His inherent bluesiness is then palpable in the sweeping charms and rhythmic drive of ‘Chewata’, and meanwhile puckered into quieter form with the higher register trills waltzing on air in ‘Elilta’. That core bluesiness follows to more blue ends on the ’Sememen’, transitioning from broodingly anxious beginnings thru tense turns to stately conclusion, sustained in his channelling of Bach and Mozart on the grand sign off ‘Ambassel’.
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Boomkat Product Review:
The album that pinged Ethiopian pianist Girma Yifrashewa on the modern classical map, 2014’s ‘Love & Peace’ is a gorgeous five part suite of calm, joyful, and subtly evocative recordings laced with a jazz-blues-iness comparable to works by Emahoy Segue-Mariam Gebru or even Alice Coltrane
‘Love & Peace’ holds Yifrashewa’s first music released outside Africa. Born in Addis Ababa, 1967, they would receive formative training on the traditional krar - a type of 5/6 stringed lyre, tuned to pentatonic scale - before encountering the piano aged 16, enrolling at Yared Music School, and subsequently earning a scholarship to study at the Sofia Conservatory, Bulgaria, performing the works of Schumann, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy, as well as Bach and Mozart. By 1998 he began composing his own works, and would establish himself among Africa’s preeminent pianists, renowned for the emotional immediacy and joyful wonder of his playing style. ‘Love & Peace’ renders Yifrashewa in their element, distinguished by a captivating rhythmic flow and breezy elegance that is hard not to be enchanted by.
The album roots Yifrashewa’s music in Ethiopia with the tongue tip beauty and space evoked by ‘The Shepherd with the Flute’, his homage to ‘The Shepherd Flutist’ by Ashenafi Kebede, whose passing in 1998 prompted the young pianist to pursue his own compositions. His inherent bluesiness is then palpable in the sweeping charms and rhythmic drive of ‘Chewata’, and meanwhile puckered into quieter form with the higher register trills waltzing on air in ‘Elilta’. That core bluesiness follows to more blue ends on the ’Sememen’, transitioning from broodingly anxious beginnings thru tense turns to stately conclusion, sustained in his channelling of Bach and Mozart on the grand sign off ‘Ambassel’.
Boomkat Product Review:
The album that pinged Ethiopian pianist Girma Yifrashewa on the modern classical map, 2014’s ‘Love & Peace’ is a gorgeous five part suite of calm, joyful, and subtly evocative recordings laced with a jazz-blues-iness comparable to works by Emahoy Segue-Mariam Gebru or even Alice Coltrane
‘Love & Peace’ holds Yifrashewa’s first music released outside Africa. Born in Addis Ababa, 1967, they would receive formative training on the traditional krar - a type of 5/6 stringed lyre, tuned to pentatonic scale - before encountering the piano aged 16, enrolling at Yared Music School, and subsequently earning a scholarship to study at the Sofia Conservatory, Bulgaria, performing the works of Schumann, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy, as well as Bach and Mozart. By 1998 he began composing his own works, and would establish himself among Africa’s preeminent pianists, renowned for the emotional immediacy and joyful wonder of his playing style. ‘Love & Peace’ renders Yifrashewa in their element, distinguished by a captivating rhythmic flow and breezy elegance that is hard not to be enchanted by.
The album roots Yifrashewa’s music in Ethiopia with the tongue tip beauty and space evoked by ‘The Shepherd with the Flute’, his homage to ‘The Shepherd Flutist’ by Ashenafi Kebede, whose passing in 1998 prompted the young pianist to pursue his own compositions. His inherent bluesiness is then palpable in the sweeping charms and rhythmic drive of ‘Chewata’, and meanwhile puckered into quieter form with the higher register trills waltzing on air in ‘Elilta’. That core bluesiness follows to more blue ends on the ’Sememen’, transitioning from broodingly anxious beginnings thru tense turns to stately conclusion, sustained in his channelling of Bach and Mozart on the grand sign off ‘Ambassel’.
Boomkat Product Review:
The album that pinged Ethiopian pianist Girma Yifrashewa on the modern classical map, 2014’s ‘Love & Peace’ is a gorgeous five part suite of calm, joyful, and subtly evocative recordings laced with a jazz-blues-iness comparable to works by Emahoy Segue-Mariam Gebru or even Alice Coltrane
‘Love & Peace’ holds Yifrashewa’s first music released outside Africa. Born in Addis Ababa, 1967, they would receive formative training on the traditional krar - a type of 5/6 stringed lyre, tuned to pentatonic scale - before encountering the piano aged 16, enrolling at Yared Music School, and subsequently earning a scholarship to study at the Sofia Conservatory, Bulgaria, performing the works of Schumann, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy, as well as Bach and Mozart. By 1998 he began composing his own works, and would establish himself among Africa’s preeminent pianists, renowned for the emotional immediacy and joyful wonder of his playing style. ‘Love & Peace’ renders Yifrashewa in their element, distinguished by a captivating rhythmic flow and breezy elegance that is hard not to be enchanted by.
The album roots Yifrashewa’s music in Ethiopia with the tongue tip beauty and space evoked by ‘The Shepherd with the Flute’, his homage to ‘The Shepherd Flutist’ by Ashenafi Kebede, whose passing in 1998 prompted the young pianist to pursue his own compositions. His inherent bluesiness is then palpable in the sweeping charms and rhythmic drive of ‘Chewata’, and meanwhile puckered into quieter form with the higher register trills waltzing on air in ‘Elilta’. That core bluesiness follows to more blue ends on the ’Sememen’, transitioning from broodingly anxious beginnings thru tense turns to stately conclusion, sustained in his channelling of Bach and Mozart on the grand sign off ‘Ambassel’.
2023 Re-press.
Available To Order (Estimated Shipping between 7-14 Working Days)
This item is to the best of our knowledge available to us from the supplier and should ship to you within the time-frame indicated. If there are any unforeseen issues with availability we will notify you immediately
Boomkat Product Review:
The album that pinged Ethiopian pianist Girma Yifrashewa on the modern classical map, 2014’s ‘Love & Peace’ is a gorgeous five part suite of calm, joyful, and subtly evocative recordings laced with a jazz-blues-iness comparable to works by Emahoy Segue-Mariam Gebru or even Alice Coltrane
‘Love & Peace’ holds Yifrashewa’s first music released outside Africa. Born in Addis Ababa, 1967, they would receive formative training on the traditional krar - a type of 5/6 stringed lyre, tuned to pentatonic scale - before encountering the piano aged 16, enrolling at Yared Music School, and subsequently earning a scholarship to study at the Sofia Conservatory, Bulgaria, performing the works of Schumann, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy, as well as Bach and Mozart. By 1998 he began composing his own works, and would establish himself among Africa’s preeminent pianists, renowned for the emotional immediacy and joyful wonder of his playing style. ‘Love & Peace’ renders Yifrashewa in their element, distinguished by a captivating rhythmic flow and breezy elegance that is hard not to be enchanted by.
The album roots Yifrashewa’s music in Ethiopia with the tongue tip beauty and space evoked by ‘The Shepherd with the Flute’, his homage to ‘The Shepherd Flutist’ by Ashenafi Kebede, whose passing in 1998 prompted the young pianist to pursue his own compositions. His inherent bluesiness is then palpable in the sweeping charms and rhythmic drive of ‘Chewata’, and meanwhile puckered into quieter form with the higher register trills waltzing on air in ‘Elilta’. That core bluesiness follows to more blue ends on the ’Sememen’, transitioning from broodingly anxious beginnings thru tense turns to stately conclusion, sustained in his channelling of Bach and Mozart on the grand sign off ‘Ambassel’.
2023 Re-press.
Available To Order (Estimated Shipping between 7-14 Working Days)
This item is to the best of our knowledge available to us from the supplier and should ship to you within the time-frame indicated. If there are any unforeseen issues with availability we will notify you immediately
Boomkat Product Review:
The album that pinged Ethiopian pianist Girma Yifrashewa on the modern classical map, 2014’s ‘Love & Peace’ is a gorgeous five part suite of calm, joyful, and subtly evocative recordings laced with a jazz-blues-iness comparable to works by Emahoy Segue-Mariam Gebru or even Alice Coltrane
‘Love & Peace’ holds Yifrashewa’s first music released outside Africa. Born in Addis Ababa, 1967, they would receive formative training on the traditional krar - a type of 5/6 stringed lyre, tuned to pentatonic scale - before encountering the piano aged 16, enrolling at Yared Music School, and subsequently earning a scholarship to study at the Sofia Conservatory, Bulgaria, performing the works of Schumann, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy, as well as Bach and Mozart. By 1998 he began composing his own works, and would establish himself among Africa’s preeminent pianists, renowned for the emotional immediacy and joyful wonder of his playing style. ‘Love & Peace’ renders Yifrashewa in their element, distinguished by a captivating rhythmic flow and breezy elegance that is hard not to be enchanted by.
The album roots Yifrashewa’s music in Ethiopia with the tongue tip beauty and space evoked by ‘The Shepherd with the Flute’, his homage to ‘The Shepherd Flutist’ by Ashenafi Kebede, whose passing in 1998 prompted the young pianist to pursue his own compositions. His inherent bluesiness is then palpable in the sweeping charms and rhythmic drive of ‘Chewata’, and meanwhile puckered into quieter form with the higher register trills waltzing on air in ‘Elilta’. That core bluesiness follows to more blue ends on the ’Sememen’, transitioning from broodingly anxious beginnings thru tense turns to stately conclusion, sustained in his channelling of Bach and Mozart on the grand sign off ‘Ambassel’.
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