Blog: Doklands

Okay, here I am sharing a song with an unknown title, by an unknown artist. It's ripped from this YouTube video , and unless you can identify the alphabet that the subtitles are written in (I think it might be Tigrinya but haven't checked), those details will probably remain a mystery. We've had Tewahedo songs on here before, but I reckon this is my favourite. It's a meandering style of devotional music, traditionally performed outside Ethiopean and Eritrean churches and monasteries. There's some religious prejudice against actually performing inside, as I understand. We're [...]

• Unknown artist - Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Song