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▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Artist.......: Gigi ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Album.Title..: Guramayle ░▓░▐▓
▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: Palm Picture ░▓░ █▓▌
▐█▓▓ ▀▓ Genre........: Ethnic ░▓▓▓ ▐█▓▓
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░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ rip.date....: 03/05/2003 ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ str.date....: 2001 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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▀▓█████████████▓▓▓▀ quality.....: 192 kbps ░▓░ █▀ ░░▓▓▓ ▀▓
░ ▀▓██████▓██▓▓▀ ▓░ size........: 87,2 MB ▓▓ ▀░ ░ ░ ░▓░ ░▀
▀▓█████▓▓▓ ░░▓ playtime....: 63:28 min ░▓▓░▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓░
░ ▐███████▓▓▌░▓▓▓░ Catnr.......: n/a ░▓▓▓▓▓ ▓░▓▓░░ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. Gud Fella 05:35 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Mengedegna 05:33 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Tew Ante Sew 04:20 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. Abay 05:18 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Bale Washintu 05:35 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. Guramayle 04:27 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Sew Argegn 05:16 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Aynama 05:05 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. Kahn 03:47 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. Zomaye 04:00 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. Abet Wubet 04:07 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. Nefekegn 05:23 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 13. Adwa 05:02 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ From an ancient kingdom fixed in the popular ▓▌
▓████▓▌ imagination as civilization's cradle, birthplace of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ biblical consorts to the Hebrew kings and would-be ▓▌
▓████▓▌ messiahs, emerges the voice of Gigi Shibabaw. Gigi, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a stunning young Ethiopian singer, reaches from the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ past with a spriritual vision for the future, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ reminding us of the most fundamental human truths: ▓▌
▓████▓▌ devotion, harmony, and beauty. Her self-titled ▓▌
▓████▓▌ album, is a space odyssey that takes us back home, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to what really matters. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Produced by world music mastermind Bill Laswell, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ who has worked with artists ranging from Herbie ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Hancock to Morocco's Master Musicians of Joujouka, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Gigi's album is an organic flowering of ancient ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Nile rhythms, contemporary jazz virtuosity, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pan-African rhythm, and dub-reggae studio wizardry. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Percolating around Gigi's rich, affectless voice ▓▌
▓████▓▌ are a team of master musicians that include ▓▌
▓████▓▌ saxophonists Wayne Shorter, Henry Thredgill, and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Pharoah Sanders; guitarist Nicky Skopelitis; ▓▌
▓████▓▌ percussinists Aiyb Dieng and Karsh Kale; and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Laswell himself on bass. From "Guramayle," a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sweeping pop number kitted out in soulful organ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ swells, to the West African styled "Mengedegna," ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the rugged horn-laden Ethio-funk of "Tew Ante Sew," ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and dark dub energy of "Sew Argegn," Gigi's debut ▓▌
▓████▓▌ captures the many facest of this unique artist. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Twenty-seven years old, tall, dusky and crowned ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with a nest of sun-kissed curls, Gigi embodies ▓▌
▓████▓▌ polar possibilities with disarming grace. From a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ tiny corner of East Africa, she has emerged with an ▓▌
▓████▓▌ effortlessly cosmopolitan voice. Gigi is conversant ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in the ancient language of Agew, a root language ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and lingua franca of ancient norther states of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Ethiopia. "For an Ethiopian artist, my work is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ different," she explains, sequestered in Laswell's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Orange Music Souns Studio during the recording of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ this album. And not only because Gigi writes all of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ her own songs, "I grew up singing in the Ethiopian ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Church, which is actually not allowed for women, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ but there was a priest at my home who taught me how ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to sing the songs. And I listen to a lot of West ▓▌
▓████▓▌ African music, South African music, hip hop, and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ funk, so you feel all that in the melodies. Even if ▓▌
▓████▓▌ it's in Amharic, people can appreciate this music." ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Those who know Ethiopia's pop superstars Aster ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Aweke and Mahmoud Ahmed will find Gigi's music ▓▌
▓████▓▌ markedly different. Her varied musical interests ▓▌
▓████▓▌ leaven the rigid Ethiopian scales; her voice is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ just as likely to soar fullbodied like the Malian ▓▌
▓████▓▌ songbird Oumou Sangare as it is to break into ▓▌
▓████▓▌ breathy falsetto. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Fifth child in a family of ten, Ejigayew "Gigi" ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Shibabaw was raised in a far-off hamlet by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ conscientious parents who'd turned their backs on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the squalor of the city. Her family's life was ▓▌
▓████▓▌ directly dependent on the water from the river Ardi ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to irrigate their coffee plant crops. "I always ▓▌
▓████▓▌ knew I wanted to be a singer," she recalls. "We ▓▌
▓████▓▌ always had a lot of entertainment in my house. When ▓▌
▓████▓▌ people would come over, my parents would have the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ kids perform for them." A loyal daughter with a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ rebellious streak -- some things truly are ▓▌
▓████▓▌ universal -- Gigi sought her artistic fortunes ▓▌
▓████▓▌ abroad when her tradition-minded father initially ▓▌
▓████▓▌ forbade her to make way in the world as an ▓▌
▓████▓▌ entertainer. Living first in Nairobi, Kenya, and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ performing with an Ensemble of East African expats, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Gigi returned to Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ where she quickly established herself as a singer ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and songwriter to be reckoned with. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Cast in a French theatre production of the story of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, which featured an ▓▌
▓████▓▌ all-Ethiopian ensemble, Gigi toured East and South ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ invited to perform at a Paris World Music Festival. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Seeing the world stage as her true home, Gigi ▓▌
▓████▓▌ relocated to San Fransisco at age 24. It wasn't ▓▌
▓████▓▌ long before her music, released for the local ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Blackwell, Palm Pictures founder. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Her music derives from celebrations of Genna ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (Ethiopian Christmas), when men and women used to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ assemble at her home for two months of feasting, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ games, and of course, zefen (songs) and chifera ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (group dancing). Her poetry is inspired by the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ land, by scripture, the ancient Ethiopian church, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and the beauty of the Ethiopian civilization. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Gigi entrusted her songs to an international cast ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of musicians -- fellow Ethiopians, West Africans, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Americans, and Indian-Americans. "I thought it ▓▌
▓████▓▌ would be difficult to work with people who weren't ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Ethiopian and didn't know our music," she admits, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "but everything we've done is magic. Bill Laswell ▓▌
▓████▓▌ is incredible. It's like when we got all these ▓▌
▓████▓▌ musicians together, it just happened -- they're ▓▌
▓████▓▌ playing my heart." ▓▌
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