Clara Jo – A-B-A-B-A: from here to hear from ethiopian new music Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 9 min 20 sec
✓ Published: 19-Jul-2017

Description:
The collaboration ‘A-B-A-B-A: from here to hear’ evolved as a series of workshops and poetry events in Addis Ababa and Berlin starting in 2012. Testing new structures and methods in an artistic dialogue, the series set out to explore oral traditions in Amharic poetry culture, translations and interpretations between German, English and Amharic, and performative elements on stage, including traditional Ethiopian music combined with contemporary jazz elements and electronic music.Clara Jo’s