Other Minds 27: Artur Avanesov - Tezeta from amharic new songs Watch Video
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Description: Tezeta is both a subgenre and a pentatonic mode of Ethiopian popular music. Translated from Amharic, this word means “longing.” This piano piece was influenced by Tezeta songs by Ethiopian artists such as Seyfou Yohannes and Mahmoud Ahmed.Written in a “spiral” form, the piece progressively modulates between the tones of the pentatonic scale before returning to the original “key,” yet at a new level, where the initial melodic structures are transformed into wide chords, and the peda
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