BADUME'S BAND

Addis Kan is here. The new kan is here, or the Addis kan (as in Addis Abeba), since Addis is the word for “new” in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia. Should we have expected the unlikely meeting of the kan ha diskan of the festoù noz from Brittany and the infectious groove of the Swinging Addis ? The one groove which, in the sixties and early seventies, was the unimaginable soundtrack of the vanishing reign of the last Ethiopian emperor, Haylè-Sellassié.

Feet in Brittany ground, and head in the Abyssinia stars, the Badume’s Band now presents his soulful, mind-free, punchy and lively reinterpretation of this universal musical inheritance. On 2010, for the worldwide "Ethiopiques Tour", Mahmoud Ahmed & Alemayehu Eshété are backed by Badume's Band.