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”Ethiopia didn’t need me” – Vincent Moon on Ethiopia
“Ethiopia is an island,” Vincent Moon explains. The French filmmaker has been on the road for four years now travelling and filming music and spiritual rituals across the globe and releasing them through his Petites Planètes label. 2012 saw him spending three months in Ethiopia exploring and recording Easter in Gonder and the sounds of Merkato ...
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THE CULTURE OF COFFEE
Ethiopia has been a coffee nation for centuries, in fact the whole adventure and history of coffee started in Ethiopia as early as in the 13th century. According to the myth a sheep-herder, Kaldi was looking for his herd one day, when he discovered the red cherries on the coffee tree, and later invented ...
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All ears on Ethiopia – explorations of sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard
Did you ever wonder how a country sounds like? What distinct sounds characterizes a country or a place? The Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard has. And according to Jacob, Ethiopia has many surprises to offer a curious ear. Jacob first visited Ethiopia in 2010 and recorded ”Ears of the Other”. He then returned in 2012 with ...
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BUY ME A CAR
When you live in Addis you get used to people on the street asking for money, food, pens, or the like. But being asked to buy someone a car is quite unusual. However, this is exactly what artist Robel Temesgen asks you. The idea of the ‘BUY ME A CAR’ project is quite simple ...
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Staring Into the Sun
Photographer/filmmaker Olivia Wyatt’s Staring into the Sound project is no longer the talk of town. But it should be as it’s an effort unlike anything else done for Ethiopian culture in many years and truly deserves another round of applause and recommendations. The short story of the project goes like this (read also ...
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Rencontrés de Bamako // Bamako Encounters
Two weeks ago West Africa was bubbling with photographic activity. The 9th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako (Bamako Encounters) was on its highest, and acknowledged photographers from all over Africa gathered for Africa’s biggest photographic event taking place in the heart of Mali. Entitled For a sustainable World the focus this year was on ...