The daring experiment of contagious ethio-trance
When the most adventurous of French jazz violinists met an Ethiopian rock singer from Addis Ababa, the connection was lyrical, cosmic and spirited. Based on poems, Ethiopian rhythms and fertile improvisations, Théo Ceccaldi fuses his mixed-race jazz with the traditional Azmaris voice of Hewan Gebrewold, in a clever tribal variation. Accompanied by a high-flying combo, this duo gives itself over to an experiment in electro-mystical ethio-trance…
