21 June is also World Music Day. A call for making music, not war
Lovely read, and lovely music too, of course!!!
Email from Mathew Thomas:
Hi Sreekumar,
I have a bit of a tin ear when it comes to music, but apropos orchestra
and flash mob, I came across this a long time and saved it and return to
it occasionally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg
Some years ago, I read about a singer(Hachalu Hundessa) being
assassinated in Ethiopia and discovered this:
youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3he6CGF3E
The song is superficially a love song, but loaded with political
subtext. The song is at the intersection of music and war in Ethiopia.
The Oromos (to which tribe Hachalu Hundessa belongs) were a relatively
oppressed by people by people from the northern district(Tigray) who
dominated Ethiopia politics. Hachalu raised huge amounts of money for
the Oromos and it led to Abiy Ahmed (of the Oromo Democratic Party)
becoming the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. Abiy signed a peace deal with
Eritria, which got him a Nobel Price. But then he turned abound and
started (opinions differ on who is responsible) the ongoing civil war
with Tigray.
Finland's most popular song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQ90OqZjo8&list
And now for something totally different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyl2tOaKxM
Lovely read, and lovely music too, of course!!!
Email from Mathew Thomas:
Hi Sreekumar,
I have a bit of a tin ear when it comes to music, but apropos orchestra
and flash mob, I came across this a long time and saved it and return to
it occasionally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg
Some years ago, I read about a singer(Hachalu Hundessa) being
assassinated in Ethiopia and discovered this:
youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3he6CGF3E
The song is superficially a love song, but loaded with political
subtext. The song is at the intersection of music and war in Ethiopia.
The Oromos (to which tribe Hachalu Hundessa belongs) were a relatively
oppressed by people by people from the northern district(Tigray) who
dominated Ethiopia politics. Hachalu raised huge amounts of money for
the Oromos and it led to Abiy Ahmed (of the Oromo Democratic Party)
becoming the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. Abiy signed a peace deal with
Eritria, which got him a Nobel Price. But then he turned abound and
started (opinions differ on who is responsible) the ongoing civil war
with Tigray.
Finland's most popular song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQ90OqZjo8&list
And now for something totally different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyl2tOaKxM