Meet Kibrom Birhane, A Keyboardist & Vocalist Fusing Jazz With 1,000-Year-Old Ethiopian Tradition
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- 10 Aug 2022
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Need a gateway to the universe of sounds Ethiopia contains? Why not start with Kibrom Birhane, who blends Ethiopian scales and melodies with Western rhythms on his new album, 'Here and There'?
Sound like something you should know more than you know offhand? There's no shame in that. The African continent offers such a multiverse of riches that you could study the musics of one town — much less one country — for god knows how long. So, better late than never: and if you'd like to learn about what Ethiopian jazz is all about, why not start with Kibrom Birhane?
Granted, Birhane — who lives in Pasadena, California, these days — is simply a modern practitioner, weaving the chants he heard as a boy into the jazz idiom. Still, his newest album, Here and There, which dropped June 24, offers a looking-glass into this confluence of forms. Read More...
