While most Ethiopian tunes posted on here are from the most excellent Ethiopiques series of CDs released over the past few years, or from the recent tracks cut by the likes of Getatchew Mekurya with American basedmusicians familiar with old Ethiopian styles, tonights choice is by Ejigayehu Shibabaw aka Gigi, an Ethiopian lady singer whose eponymous CD was released in 2001, produced by Bill Lasw...
Gigi - "The Hundredth Time" Gigi - "One Woman Show" I'm looking over 3 years of doodles and drawings from a pad I keep near the phone. There's a dragon looking meanly at a fire hydrant with dog feet. There's about a hundred broken hearts, there's a bunch of testing-the-pen scribbles, a half-face that looks like a mix of Lenny Kravitz and Hunter Thompson. There's a coffee stain that's been o...