Tag: Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

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Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert At the threshold of the sacred and the secular, in February of 1971 the pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane released Journey in Satchidananda before embarking on a live performance at Carnegie Hall as part of a benefit for her favourite swami's Integral Yoga Institute. The singer-songwriter Laura Nyro and The Rascals were also on...

There's a bit of the Lizard King about 'Work Song For A Scattered Past', the opening salvo from the latest Fire! album Testament, with its souped-up swagger and whiskey-soaked, careening strut redolent of everything from the 'Alabama Song' and 'Back Door Man' to 'Wild Child', the 'Roadhouse Blues' and 'Been Down So Long' which serves as a loaded riposte...

The piano style of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - a classically-trained violinist in her youth who became a nun at the age of twenty-one and spent the next decade living within a hilltop monastery, eventually settling in an Ethiopian Orthodox convent in Jerusalem before the compilation series Éthiopiques in 2006 which focused primarily on tizita and Ethio-jazz shone a spotlight...