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UMPG today announced the promotion of Ethiopia Habtemariam to Senior Vice President/Head of Urban Music

Los Angeles, CA, February 19, 2010 - Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) today announced the promotion of Ethiopia Habtemariam to Senior Vice President/Head of Urban Music. Habtemariam was previously Vice President of Urban Music.

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Ethio-Jazzman

Ethiopian music legend Mulatu Astatke invented Ethio-Jazz. With a whole new generation of fans and collaborators he's just as innovative today.

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Golden Age of Ethiopian Jazz is coming back

ADDIS ABABA (The Economist)- Aficionados are hoping for a revival of the golden age of Ethiopian jazz, as players who emigrated westward a generation ago, especially to America, come home amid the global recession.

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Ethiopiqued

Debo Band go from the Western Front to East Africa

Last spring, Danny Mekonnen and Jonah Rapino led Boston's fledgling Ethiopian pop group Debo Band straight to Addis Ababa. They played a local festival, made friends with nightclub owners, and found an Ethiopian Airlines deal for a free trip down the coast to Tanzania. There, they hung out with expatriated Black Panthers, took giraffe safaris, and met organizers from one of the biggest music festivals in Africa, Zanzibar's Sauti za Busara.

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Ethio Rhythm Filtered, Fused

In January 2009, two French musicians with the group Le bruit du [sign], Nicolas Stephan and Sebastien Brun, came to Addis Abeba to research the possibility of fusing their contemporary jazz practices with the traditional sounds of Ethiopia. They embarked upon the work of writing new songs with Melaku Belay, a traditional dancer, based on the reflections of their experiences.



Fused: From left, Sebastien Brun, Theo Girard, Zak Cammoun (sound engineer), Nicolas Stephen, Melaku Belay, Julien Rousseau, Jeanne Added, Zinash Tsegaye, and Julien Ome pose for a photo-op.

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