#Ernesto Chahoud

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Ernesto Chahoud presents TAITU - Soul-fuelled Stompers from 1960s - 1970s Ethiopia

Ernesto Chahoud’s ‘Taitu’ is a collection of soul-fuelled stompers straight from the dancefloors of 1970s Addis Ababa. A breathless journey through the unique Ethio sound that bands were forging at the time, the 24-track compilation is the result of the Lebanese DJ and crate digger’s decadelong love affair with the ‘golden age’ of Ethiopian music. Among the musical gems featured are 7”s by some of the heavyweights of the scene including the godfather of Ethio jazz Mulatu Astatke and Alemayehu Eshete, the vocalist dubbed the ‘Ethiopian Elvis’, alongside tracks by more obscure artists such as Merawi Yohannis and Birkineh Wurga. For ‘Taitu’, Chahoud has selected 24 of his essential Ethio-Soul 7”s, that never leave his DJ box, and together they capture this opportune moment in Ethiopian music history that saw bands experiment with an armful of influences: gliding through R&B, rock & roll, jazz, funk, soul and boogaloo. What came out was a distinctly Ethiopian interpretation: pentatonic scales, horn-driven melodies and soul-shattering vocals sung in Amharic. The songs are difficult to box in to one genre but they share a simplicity and rawness, added to by their lo-fi quality – with many recordings made in rudimentary studios with only a couple of mics for the entire band. From the R&B stomper ‘Honey Baby’ by Alemayehu Eshete to Astatke’s swaggering ethnic-jazz instrumental ‘Emnete’ and the bluesy melancholic vocals of Hirut Bekele on ‘Ewnetegna Feker’, ‘Taitu’ is a window in on the exciting records being made in Ethiopia in the 1970s.

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Music Review: Mulatu Astatke’s Emnete

Emnete by Mulatu Astatke released in the 1970’s captures the eclectic sound of Addis Ababa’s jazz scene. Mulatu Astatke is an Ethiopian jazz musician who is considered the father of ethio-jazz.

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Ziad Rahbani is Lebanon’s most famous living composer. The son of the legendary singer Fairuz, Rahbani began his career in his early teens. Beirut-born DJ Ernesto Chahoud and French label We Want Sounds have reissued a handful of Rahbani’s enduring albums recently, but this show will mostly concentrate on work by the composer that has yet to be published outside of the Arabic-speaking world. Bodega Pop - Give the Drummer Some https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/116470 @wfmu #jeromesuptownradio @joefoleyfilms (at WFMU) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce14-FOPEyQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 064 - 2021.04.14 PLAYLIST

1) Faust - “It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl” from SO FAR https://www.discogs.com/Faust-So-Far/master/28068

2) Flower Travellin' Band - “Satori, Pt. 2” from SATORI https://www.discogs.com/Flower-Travelling-Band-Satori/master/35434

3) Xasan Diiriye - “Qaraami (Love)” from SWEET AS BROKEN DATES: LOST SOMALI TAPES FROM THE HORN OF AFRICA https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-as-broken-dates-lost-somali-tapes-from-the-horn-of-africa

4) Nkotti François and The Black Styl 77 - “Ndola Njomba Bodi Mba Da Monjo Na Mbundo” from DE BONABERI A DOUALA https://nangabokorecords.bandcamp.com/album/de-bonaberi-a-douala

5) Getatchew Kassa - “Wededkuh Maletish Layker” https://www.discogs.com/Getatchew-Kassa-Yene-Alem-Wededkuh-Maletish-Layker/release/8248841

6) Professional Uhuru Dance Band - “Medzi Me Sigya” from UHURU SPECIAL HI-LIFE NUMBERS https://www.discogs.com/Professional-Uhuru-Dance-Band-Uhuru-Special-Hi-Life-Numbers/master/756408

7) Mdou Moctar - “Afrique Victime” from AFRIQUE VICTIME https://mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com/album/afrique-victime

8) Musique Originale De Films - “Omar Gatlatou (unreleased longer version)” from HABIBI 003: AHMED MALEK https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-funk-003-musique-originale-de-films

9) Amancio D'Silva - “A Street In Bombay” from KONKAN DANCE https://theroundtable.bandcamp.com/album/konkan-dance-pre-order

10) Tagirov - “Istanbul - Spice Bazaar (aka Egyptian Bazaar) Ambience” https://freesound.org/people/tagirov/sounds/274968/

11) T. V. Ramaswami Sastrigal - “Sky Lark Squirrel Country Oil Mill Red Bird (1937)” from Indian Talking Machine: 78 RPM Record and Gramophone Collecting on the Sub-Continent https://www.discogs.com/Various-Indian-Talking-Machine-78-RPM-Record-And-Gramophone-Collecting-On-The-Sub-Continent/release/8232914

12) Domenique Dumont - “Comme Ça” from Sunday Mixtape https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-mixtape

13) DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson - “Caipirinha” from Aimez ces airs 2 https://hotcasarecords.bandcamp.com/track/caipirinha

14) The Peter Laine Orchestra - “Tiger Walk” from FUNKY CHIMES: BELGIAN GROOVES FROM THE 70S PARTS 1 & 2 https://sdbanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-funky-chimes-belgian-grooves-from-the-70s-parts-1-2

15) Leila Gobi - “An Nia” from 2017 https://www.clermontmusic.com/leila-gobi

16) Jean Kassapian - “The Snake (for Belly Dancers)” https://www.discogs.com/Jean-Kassapian-The-Snake/release/15446465

17) Alemayehu Eshete - “Chiro Adarie Negne” from ERNESTO CHAHOUD PRESENTS TAITU - SOUL-FUELLED STOMPERS FROM 1960S - 1970S ETHIOPIA https://ernestochahoud.bandcamp.com/album/ernesto-chahoud-presents-taitu-soul-fuelled-stompers-from-1960s-1970s-ethiopia

18) Shankar Ganesh - “Coca Cola” https://cartilage-records.bandcamp.com/track/cola-cola-coca-cola-1985 https://goodlisteners.bandcamp.com

19) Afro Super-Feelings led by Segun Okeji - “I Like Woman” from I LIKE WOMAN https://www.discogs.com/Afro-Super-Feelings-Led-By-Segun-Okeji-I-Like-Woman/release/2339928

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Tilahun Gessesse ‎– Aykedashim libe

BBE ‎– BBE369CLP – Released in 2018. Ernesto Chahoud ‎– Taitu (Soul-Fuelled Stompers From 1960s-1970s Ethiopia).

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Ernesto Chahoud presents “Taitu”, BBE 2018. #jazz #soul #ethiopian #vinyl #vinylcollection (at Walmer, Kent, United Kingdom)

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Participante Curar/Crear

Ernesto Bautista (Santa Ana, El Salvador, 1987

Fundador de Curatorial Cinema y The Fire Theory. Sus exposiciones recientes incluyen “Dios, Union, Libertad” curado por Omar Lopez-Chahoud en Prosjektromnormanns; Stavanger Norway y “ICE” en la Open Source Gallery, New York, USA; II Bienal del Sur “Pueblos en Resistencia”, Caracas Venezuela. Programa de Residencias Artisticas de ARCUS Project, en Japón. Ganador de la Beca para Artistas Emergentes en el Santa Fe Art Institute otorgada por la Harpo Foundation, Baja California, EU. Residencia de las Americas, por the Darling Foundry Centre, Quebec, Canada. Bautista ha realizado exposiciones individuales en ExTeresa Arte Actual. Mexico, D.F. y Shangyuan Art Museum. Beijing, China. También en “X”, Museo de Arte de El Salvador y Galeria Ernst Hilger. Vienna, Austria. “Sustainable Connections” en la Triennal de Milan. Milan, Italia. VII Bienal de Artes Visuales del Istmo Centroamericano; Bienal de las Fronteras, Tamaulipas. Mexico; Colecciones en Illy Art Collection, Venezia, Italy. Publicaciones en Lenguajes Contemporáneos de Centro America por Luisa Fuentes Guaza. Editorial Turner y en Y.ES. Collect Contemporary Art in El Salvador. Su trabajo transita medios diversos: va desde objetos a fotografía, de intervenciones hasta proyectos cinematográficos, investigaciones, videojuegos, entre otros. El trabajo de Ernesto Bautista es una constante colisión entre poesía y realidad cruda. La noción del infinito, lo efímero, lo oscuro y su contexto social inmediato generan una fuente inagotable de información y conocimiento que el usa recurrentemente en su trabajo.

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Opening tomorrow @opensourcegallery Image caption: "Ernesto Bautista, New Promises/Nuevas Promesas, 2012, intervention project on trucks crossing the U.S. border Those who left. Those who got lost. Those who arrived. Those who stayed. Those who came back." The Fire Theory presents ICE, an exhibition, residency and collaborative project curated by Omar López-Chahoud at Open Source Gallery. Immigration has been a cornerstone of the identity of the United States since its inception and the “American Dream” has been an often unattainable, yet inspiring dream for millions of immigrants from all over the world. Currently, racism and xenophobia limits the immigration that has made this country great, endangers immigrants and makes the path to citizenship inaccessible. I.C.E is the United States agency that is responsible for the border control, trade, immigration, deportation programs and as its name indicates, it generates a situation of freezing, a stand by between families, friends, on both sides of the border. The Fire Theory is an El Salvador-based art collective formed by Víctor “Crack” Rodríguez, Melissa Guevara, Ernesto Bautista and Mauricio Kabistan. During ICE, Rodríguez will open Open Source Gallery as a workspace, as well as an exhibition space for the group. Guevara, Bautista and Kabistan, whose travel visas for this exhibition were denied, will remain in El Salvador, sending their work digitally to Open Source for exhibition. Over the course of ICE, the group will work together remotely, exchanging ideas, stories and artwork, to explore immigration, both in New York and El Salvador. (at New York, New York)

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[Music] Ernesto Chahoud – Ernesto Chahoud presents TAITU – Soul​-​fuelled Stompers from 1960s – 1970s Ethiopia Lebanese DJ and crate-digger supreme Ernesto Chahoud has done sterling work collecting some of the most impressive 7-inch sides to come out of Ethiopia.  

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1969

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Ernesto Chahoud ...read more about the person responsible for this delicious mix  ...  http://www.bbemusic.com/artist/ernesto-chahoud/. 

[wordliminalbeirut]

Boiler Room Beirut - From the Counter: 5 Records 5 Stories from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

Boiler Room and Discogs teamed up to hold the first-ever Boiler Room set in the Middle East at Beirut's oldest record store Chico Music & Film. In this short film, we shot an episode of the Discogs co-sponsored "5 Records 5 Stories" with shop owner Diran Mardirian - taking the audience through his collection of eclectic & eccentric Middle Eastern records (blrrm.tv/dirian-mardirian-5records). The day included two amazing DJ sets with Jakarta Records founder - Habibi Funk - and the founder of the Beirut Groove Collective - Ernesto Chahoud in the Discog/Boiler Room "From the Counter session" (blrrm.tv/FTC-Beirut)

Cameras: Jackson Allers & Hiroo Tanaka Line Producer: Theresa Baumgartner & Hiroo Tanaka Camera Switch: Theresa Baumgartner Producer: Michail Stangl Editor: Hiroo Tanka

Special Thanks to: Boiler Room and Boiler Room Berlin, ichail Stangl, Diran Mardirian and Chico Records, The Beirut Groove Collective and Ernesto Chahoud, Theresa Baumgartner & Hiroo Tanaka

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The Mosaic of the Orient

The Mosaic of the Orient

Photograph: Ernesto Chahoud

“Two dollars each if you take the whole lot. Ten dollars each if you want only a few,” says the owner of an old music store in the north-eastern suburbs of Beirut. There are five or six thousand records, not including 45s, which are stored out back in another room.

Just five minutes earlier, Toufic and I had been drinking tea under the shade of a ficus tree, waiting…

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Music of Ethiopia

Wikipedia - "The music of Ethiopia is extremely diverse, with each of Ethiopia's ethnic groups being associated with unique sounds. distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with characteristically long intervals between some notes. The music of the Ethiopian Highlands uses a fundamental modal system called qenet, of which there are four main modes: tezeta, bati, ambassel, and anchihoy. ... From the 1950s to the 1970s, Ethiopian popular musicians included Mahmoud Ahmed, Alemayehu Eshete, Hirut Bekele, Ali Birra, Ayalew Mesfin, Kiros Alemayehu, Muluken Melesse and Tilahun Gessesse, while popular folk musicians included Alemu Aga, Kassa Tessema, Ketema Makonnen, Asnaketch Worku, and Mary Armede.  Perhaps the most influential musician of the period, however, was Ethio-jazz innovator Mulatu Astatke.  Amha Records, Kaifa Records, and Philips-Ethiopia were prominent Ethiopian record labels during this era. ..."

Wikipedia

The 10 Best Ethio-Jazz Tracks, according to Hejira (Video)

An introduction to Ethio-Jazz in 10 records (Video)

How Ethiopian jazz got its groove (Video)

NY Times: In Ethiopia’s Capital, a Resurgent Jazz Scene (Video)

YouTube: The Best Of Éthiopiques, Ethio-Jazz, Blues, Tezeta (Ethiopia) mix by DJ Ras Sjamaan 3:14:42

2016 January: New York–Addis–London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965–1975, 2017 March: Mulatu Astatke - Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974, 2018 March: Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information (2009), 2018 March: Ernesto Chahoud presents TAITU - Soul-fuelled Stompers from 1960s - 1970s Ethiopia

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BEHOLD – Snackpoint Charlie’s “Music For Open Ears” Pledge Drive Special, with all the pedge-i-ifying gloriously intact. In fact I wouldn’t normally encourage you to skip over my between-song extemporaneous-izing because seriously WE REALLY DO NEED YOUR HELP, but a distortion-causing technical snag on the spoken portions of the archive file means you are forgiven for skimming, if and only if you go to wgxc.org/donate and become a sustaining supporter. Do it now! (Oh, and “Närrische Zeit” may still be available…. holla!)

[ This month’s art by Maria Beltran Mendez of San Miguel, Mexico was graciously provided by foreign correspondent Alanna Medlock ]

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Transmission 022 - 2019.03.06 PLAYLIST

1) Asha Bhosle & Kishore Kumar - “Lekar Ham Diwana Dil” from YAADON KI BAARAAT https://www.discogs.com/Rahul-Dev-Burman-Yaadon-Ki-Baaraat/master/705592 https://youtu.be/i1rAsrjAeU0

2) Tafo feat Nahid Akhtar - “Karye Pyar” from THE SOUND OF WONDER! THE FIRST WAVE OF PLUGGED-IN POP AT THE PAKISTANI PICTURE HOUSE https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Sound-Of-Wonder/master/139891

3) Charanjit Singh - “Chura Liya Hai Tum Ne” from BOLLYWOOD STEEL GUITAR http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576882-bollywood-steel-guitar

4) Cheryl E. Leonard - “Beach Adélie Penguins” and “Adélie Colony Young Chicks” from CHATTERMARKS - FIELD RECORDINGS FROM PALMER STATION, ANTARCTICA https://www.discogs.com/Cheryl-E-Leonard-Chattermarks-Field-Recordings-From-Palmer-Station-Antarctica/release/3538423

5) Saka Acquaye and his African Ensemble - “Beyond Africa” from GOLD COAST SATURDAY NIGHT https://www.discogs.com/Saka-Acquaye-And-His-African-Ensemble-Gold-Coast-Saturday-Night/master/557964

6) Mombasa Vikings - “Mama Matotoya” from KIBE KIBE/ MAMA MATOTOYA 7" https://afro7.net/mombasa-vikings-kibe-kibe-mama-matotoya-afro7/

7) Alemayehu Eshete - “Mekeyershene Salawke” from ERNESTO CHAHOUD PRESENTS TAITU - SOUL-FUELLED STOMPERS FROM 1960S - 1970S ETHIOPIA https://ernestochahoud.bandcamp.com/album/ernesto-chahoud-presents-taitu-soul-fuelled-stompers-from-1960s-1970s-ethiopia

8) Orhan Gencebay - “Hayat Kavgasi” https://www.discogs.com/release/7119694

9) Yang Hee Eun - “Na Do Mol Rae”

10) Los Camaroes - “Mindzuk Ya Enyin” from RESURRECTION LOS https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/resurrection-los-limited-edition

11) Johnny Guitar - “Mon Du Dow” from SHADOW MUSIC OF THAILAND http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576883-shadow-music-of-thailand

12) The Flowers, Jun Hashimoto, Tadao Inoue - “Last Chance [Inst.]” from KILLING MELODY: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC FROM JAPANESE PINKY VIOLENCE MOVIES https://www.discogs.com/Various-Killing-Melody-Instrumental-Music-From-Japanese-Pinky-Violence-Movies/release/2204106

13) Agilok & Blubbo - “Kamerasong” from THE INNER SPACE https://www.discogs.com/The-Inner-Space-Agilok-Blubbo/release/1779702

14) Burhan Tonguç Ritm Grubu ve Ismet Siral - “Du-Bi-Ba” from BOSPORUS BRIDGES VOL. 3 https://blackpearlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bosporus-bridges-vol-3

15) Medio Mentira - “I Will Find You and I Will Kill You ” from FINIS AFRICAE MIXTAPE VOL. 1 https://finisafricaecolectivo.bandcamp.com/album/finis-africae-mixtape-vol-1

16) The Residents - excerpts from “The Walrus Hunt,” “Birth,” and “Arctic Hysteria” from ESKIMO https://www.residents.com/historical/?page=eskimo

17) Mandingo - “Black Rite” from MANDINGO AND HIS ORCHESTRA https://www.discogs.com/Mandingo-And-His-Orchestra-Mandingo/release/5149885

18) Alan Bishop - “Night Village Barong #1” from NIGHT RECORDINGS FROM BALI https://sublimefrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/night-recordings-from-bali

19) The Tack Organisation - “You Are About To Use The Telephone - Remember These Points”

20) Excerpts from “At Sea in Foul Weather,” “The Soft Sea of a Summer Afternoon” and “Evening in Harbour” from SOUNDS OF THE SEA AND SHIPS

21) Carolee Schneemann - excerpt from ARMORY LIVE: ARTIST TALK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUOITOPttUk

22) Tamayugé - “Ame Nochi Hare” from BABA YAGA https://tamayuge.bandcamp.com/album/baba-yaga

23) Grauzone - “Eisbær” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIIGKV27FaY