Tesfa Mariam Kidane - Give Peace a Chance

Tesfa Mariam Kidane .. or ..Tesfa-Maryam Kidane..or..Tesfamariam Kidane
Finally, after several years of self imposed hiatus, Tesfamariam has put a long awaited CD together that chronicles his life in music aptly entitled My Life in Music.
Tesfamariam's CD stands out in more ways than one. In fact one would be hard-pressed to find another Eritrean "instrumental" album to compare it with. Eritrean musicians produced music in the past daubed "instrumental", by and large nothing considered distinctive or groundbreaking. As far as I can tell none attempted to produce an original composition however mediocre it may have sounded. All were an instrumental version of older songs sang by one vocalist or another.
Tesfamariam's CD, however, is a welcome respite from the familiar and routine mostly keyboard driven redundant arrangements we are accustomed to. Tesfamariam writes his own original compositions. Like a true jazz musician he makes musical statements and narrates a story. In the process he introduces jazz to Eritrea in its contemporary form, the type of jazz that is pleasantly listenable, concise, but not noisy and perplexing. He also mixes it up with Eritrean folk songs giving it more texture and depth. His CD is sure to be a benchmark for differentiating the real from the pretense. Conceivably, it may even inspire others to follow suit or even do better.
In order to produce My Life in Music Tesfamariam worked with accomplished recoding studio American musicians. These musicians, some of whom are music teachers, display an impeccable high standard command of their respectable instruments. The definite rapport between the well-chosen players such as Keyboardist Glenn Douglas, guitarist Earl Carter, Base Guitarist Walter Cosby, and drummer Jeff Neal is but apparent right from the first track.

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