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[Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK] Ethiopiques is a series of compact discs featuring Ethiopian and Eritrean singers and musicians, best-known for its musical compositions “Erè Mèla Mèla”[1] by Mahmoud Ahmed; and “Yegelle Tezeta”[2] and “Yékèrmo Sèw”[3] by Mulatu Astatke. The music was internationally popularized by Jim Jarmusch when he used a number of songs by Astatke from [...]
Author: fegul Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:38 pm (GMT -5) Topic Replies: 3 Listen the sax sample that begins 5 seconds into this song and repeats itself and let me know if you think its Ethiopique-ish. Link It sounds very familiar to me for some reason... _________________ fegul.com
I was planning to do this yesterday, but couldn’t so here it is today, a selection of the best finds on Hype Machine this week. * Siriusmo - Last Dear on Audiodrums (Berlin based electronic) * Dillinja - Grimey on Fried my Little Brain (Drum ‘n Bass) * 6 Bobby Womack tracks on A Plague of Angels [...]
The Africa Union (AU) and Microsoft have agreed to join forces in acceleration of social and economic development in Africa through the use of information and communication technology (ICT).
Cairo, Egypt - The Africa Union and Microsoft Thursday announced they will join forces to help accelerate social and economic development in Africa through the use of technology.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Two newly appointed Commissioners of the African Union (AU) here Monday took oath of office before the new Chairman of the Commission, Jean Ping.
The handing-over ceremony between out-going Chair person of the African Union (AU) Commission, Professor Alpha Oumar Konaré, and t h e in-coming Chairperson, Jean Ping who was elected on 2 February at the 10th AU S ummit here, is scheduled to take place Monday, 28 April, at the headquarters of the Union.
Al Mezan Reference: 48/2008 Date: 17 April 2008 Press Release IOF Continues Targeting Civilians; 18 Killed in Gaza, Including a Journalist and 8 Children The IOF continues its escalation of aggression against the population in the Gaza Strip. It killed 18 Palestinians in reckless attacks focused mostly in central Gaza Strip. Evidence shows that IOF targeted civilians deliberately; killing a journalist...
BAGHDAD-- A U.S. airstrike struck two checkpoints manned by U.S.-allied Sunni fighters north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing six and injuring two, Iraqi police said.
"A vendor sold bread on Wednesday in a poor section of Cairo, where lines are long and customers pushy." Source of caption and photo: online version of the NYT article quoted and cited below. (p. A4) Much of what ails...
I had planned to leave my post on Sibel Edmonds' interview with the Sunday Times to stay on top for awhile, but new material has come forward. (Read or skim the story below before dealing with this one.) The former FBI translator has named all the individuals who -- she says -- played a role in the story she uncovered while working for the Bureau. The information comes to us in an interesting way:...
It's the last Saturday of 2007. Get crazy. Mahmoud Ahmed is playing the Showbox at the Market. From this week's feature : Ahmed became one of the country's first pop stars, imitating the dress of Little Richard and the stage presence of Elvis. Motown-like, his specialty became the love song, dripping with poetic melodrama. He sang in Amharic, racy/sacred sentiments like, "Your body is a love trap/there...
While the rest of the world, and particularly Pakistan, recoils in horror to this awful event, the truthers, who believe there is no such thing as a simple act of violence for the obvious reason, but that everything must be cloaked in some complex web of conspiracy, start their little minds wandering in speculation. 911 Blogger starts us off with the creative title, " I Call B*llshit on the Bhutto...
Or, why we’re fighting the wrong war in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq The full version of the Ted Rall comment: The marketing of Musharraf as a bulwark against radical Islam and the Taliban is one of the biggest jokes of the post-9/11 era. He wasn't for the Taliban before he was against them. He was the Taliban. Rall crossed the border from from China to Pakistan at just the time Musharraf was overthrowing...
