Thanks for this write up. I discovered her music after it was used on the soundtrack of the movie Passing. The music is amazing, like a transmission from another world (which, considering her being cloistered, it is in a way).
re: Emahoy - beautiful music but, accidentally or not, much closer to a certain style of post-classical American pastoral; listen to Eastwood Lane for starters; these composers are much forgotten now but she sounds startlingly like them.
This is great. You’re putting me onto, or reminding me of, some amazing music. Why not have Gebru categorised as Jazz or blues? Otherwise what is it? That dread phrase ‘world music”? A description I really don’t like. Thanks for the work, it’s inspirational. R & L Thompson hadn’t been played here for years. Did you check out his ‘1000 years of popular music’? Keep going …
So glad she was able to live long enough to get the much-deserved musical comeback story. This is a tale movies are made of! Great find.
🙏 So good to see continued appreciation of her work. There seems to be an ongoing releasing of her music since her passing with an album forthcoming later this summer. https://emahoytsegemariamgebru.bandcamp.com/album/church-of-kidane-mehret
In terms of film there’s also a great doc “Time” that uses her music to great effect. https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/time-documentary-soundtrack-garrett-bradley-interview/
And we used one of her songs in a project for the New Yorker in the late 2010s. https://youtu.be/6hIgGWaMRo4?si=1n32IAVj99D7xH1t
Thank you for sharing this information, Julian. I enjoyed the New York City pool short.
Thanks for this write up. I discovered her music after it was used on the soundtrack of the movie Passing. The music is amazing, like a transmission from another world (which, considering her being cloistered, it is in a way).
re: Emahoy - beautiful music but, accidentally or not, much closer to a certain style of post-classical American pastoral; listen to Eastwood Lane for starters; these composers are much forgotten now but she sounds startlingly like them.
Nice writeup. And I love the pictures.
This is great. You’re putting me onto, or reminding me of, some amazing music. Why not have Gebru categorised as Jazz or blues? Otherwise what is it? That dread phrase ‘world music”? A description I really don’t like. Thanks for the work, it’s inspirational. R & L Thompson hadn’t been played here for years. Did you check out his ‘1000 years of popular music’? Keep going …