#Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex

[jacobwren]

The Ex & Getatchew Mekuria - Rio Loco Festival 2011, Toulouse, France.

[hasellia]

Eyy, so @raptorbricks tagged me for this like a week ago and I'm finally got around to it! Like what Raptorbricks did I added links to the youtube sources of the soungs, plus I added some links to translations for some of the songs.

“Rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.”

10 songs from my “on repeat” mix on shuffle:

The Bug Collector - Haley Henderickx

Musicawi silt | Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex (You don't need lyrics, just listen to the guitar and saxophone).

The Wisp Sings - Winter Aid

ingerlaliinnaleqaagut - Nanook (Translated Lyrics)

つきをみた (tsukiwomita) - Sohta (想太) | (YT link to an ENG fansub) | (Niconico link here)

Weather - Luck Luster

Kereshmeh; Reng-e Shalakhu (Persia: Ancient era) - Kazem Davoudian and Geoff Knorr | (WARNING PARADOX GAMES OST) (Link to the original Karamesh) (Link to original Reng-‌e Shalakhu)

ᐃᒥᖅᑕᖅ (Imiqtaq) - Riit | (Translated lyrics)

Dhaliwuy Bay - Yirrmal

Moon is Sharp - Grouper

... I swear I listen to more than just non-english songs and milennial Tiktok music, the algorithm just wanted to expose me.

I might reblog this later to give a quick summery of the context of each song and some of my reccomended videos for getting into non-western music.

Now for the Ten I choose to expose their music taste are...

@grapeagata @broccoli-bitching @crocadilly @enchanteddaydreams @ofals @sock-puppet-dinosaur @tootheyes @justgoji @theolminitiative and @ratbonesart.

No actual obligation to join if you don't want to. However, anyone is free to join in if they want, just make sure to tag me!

[amamaterial]

Zea et Xavier Charles. Vraie grande classe de part et d'autre. Je déplore de n'avoir vu étonnamment Xavier Charles que 2 fois (mais quelles fois ! Avec The Ex et Getatchew Mekuria pour la première)

[lepartiprisdeschoses]

Assuming The Ex didn't just abandon their politics completely, I think it's nice they were able to collaborate with Getatchew Mekuria in spite of their differences. I'm kind of tempted to say that it was punk rock of them to do so even if the idea of "being punk" is mostly empty.

[lsorenl]

@stealthsdolphin tagged me 2 post 6 albums that i can’t live without so here i have compiled exactly six of them in random alphabetical order:

1. A Sun Came - Sufjan Stevens 2. Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield 3. Destroyers Rubies - Destroyer 4. Bildungsroman - Hiperson 5. Live Again - Silly Wizard 6. The Way Out - The Books 7. No One Likes A Nervous Wreck - Marzuki 8. Peasant - Richard Dawson 9. Moa Anbessa - The Ex & Getatchew Mekuria 10. Enjoy Your Rabbit - Sufjan Stevens 11. Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind - Vashti Bunyan 12. Silent Shout - The Knife 13. Mount Eerie - The Microphones 14. Silver Ladders - Mary Lattimore 15. Speaking In Tongues - Talking Heads 16. Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab 17. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield 18. 69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields

Showed less restraint than u guys by not caring about repeats but more restraint than i thought i would by only putting 2.5 sufjan albums. so. cant say what this means for the world at large!

 i tag anyone that would like to (bc i think the whole sphere has been tagged already) and also @jnkhstlx, the original album listener.

[burlveneer-music]

Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex - Moa Anbessa - wish I’d found this ten years ago! Ethio-jazz meets punk.

Getatchew Mekuria is the most revered veteran of the Ethiopian saxophone. He is a real giant, both physically and musically. In his seventies, he is still in full voice, with his own, powerfully distinctive style of playing. The Ex invited him to play with the ICP at the 25th years Anniversary Party and the Convoy Tour. Getatchew saw The Ex and also wanted to play with them. He was so inspired that he suggested to The Ex he should record his next CD with them. He gave them 10 solo saxophone versions of Ethiopian tunes. The beginning of a very successful cooperation. released January 1, 2006 Getatchew Mekuria - Saxophone Katherina - Drums Terrie - Guitar Andy - Guitar G.W.Sok - Vocals Colin McLean - Bass Xavier Charles - Clarinet Brodie West - Alto Saxophone Joost Buis - Trombone Cor Fuhler - Organ (6,9,10)

[flankingmanoeuvres]

Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Guests - Moa Anbessa (2006)[Full Album]

[underratedmusic]

Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Guests - Moa Anbessa

Obscure

Genres: Ethio-Jazz, Art Punk

Language: English

A passionate fusion of Jazz and Art Punk from Ethiopia, with energetic performances all across the 60 minute runtime. The production is also awesome, I personally didn’t even know that it was a live album until someone else pointed it out (though the claps should’ve given it away). While a mix between Jazz and Punk might sound rather boring (who wants Punk with a few saxophones), it’s nothing like what you expect.

Example:

[brawmusic]

Braw and NEHH Present: The Ex (40th Anniversary Tour) with support from Painted X-Ray @ Summerhall, 19th September!

The adventurous, innovative Dutch band The Ex exists 40 years this year and is still going strong. New projects, new songs and new adventures.

The Ex have defied categorisation ever since they started playing in 1979. Born out of the punk explosion, when anything and everything was possible, the band have still managed to retain both curiosity and passion for their music. Using guitars, bass, drums and voice as their starting point, The Ex have continued to musically explore undiscovered areas right up to the present day.

Already the early 1980s saw collaborations with jazz musicians and an Iraqi-Kurdish band. In the 90s the group found a myriad of partners from varied musical and non-musical backgrounds like Kamagurka, Tom Cora, Sonic Youth, Han Bennink, Jan Mulder and Shellac. In 2002 The Ex set up a lively musical exchange with Ethiopia, organised many projects over there and invited several Ethiopian musicians to Europe. Most striking was the collboration with the legendary saxophonist Getatchew Mekuria, which eventually led to two CD recordings and more than a hundred concerts.

The band also started organising the Ex Festivals, where they invited their favourite musicians. A mix of jazz improvisers, musicians from all over the world and local treasures they came across on tour. The last few years saw collaborations with Brass Unbound (Wolter Wierbos, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark and Roy Paci), Circus Debre Berhan and Fendika, both from Ethiopia, and many, many more.

After all these years, more than 28 albums and around 1900 concerts the band continues to work as they did in when they began, completely independent of record companies, managers or roadies. Because of this ‘do it yourself’ work ethic The Ex is still a great example for other forward-thinking bands and musicians.

Support comes from Glasgow’s incredible Painted X-Ray. A band with taiko at its heart, Painted X-Ray* are taiko (Japanese drums, Georgie White and Alison Roe), guitar (Jer Reid), bass (Ali Begbie) and violin (Rafe Fitzpatrick). Skins and strings.

Doors 8pm. Thursday, 19th September. Tickets available from the Summerhall Box Office.

[rambleon2tm]

Record Store Day Preview - The Ex: All Corpses Smell The Same

Record Store Day Preview – The Ex: All Corpses Smell The Same

40 years making music from punk to post-punk with influences of Hungarian and Turkish folk songs, tours with Ethiopian saxophone legend Getatchew Mekuria and over 20 albums to date,  it’s safe to say that The Ex have travelled a musical landscape since their inception in the underground Dutch gutter scene of 1979.

Record Store Day 2020 sees the Superior Viaduct label release a clear 7″ vinyl of…

[jacobwren]

The Ex & Getatchew Mekuria at Rio Loco! Festival- Shellelle