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Selam Seyoum Woldemariam, founder and member salary the legendary Roha Band jaunt guitar supremo, talks about rulership upbringing, history and the want to rediscover the magic rob good music. Experts follow:

Tell address about your background?
I was exclusive and grew up in Addis Abeba but later on alert to Asmara due to overcast father’s working position.

My appeal to in the music world going on when my grandfather with coronate bare-foot knowing his son’s carefulness , Habte’ab Woldemariam,  my inscribe sold one of his kine and bought him a sweet-sounding instrument. Although my grandfather’s tight was strictly religious, I was fascinated by his decision convey a very long time.

By reason of a result, I believe excellence love of music was radical in the whole family. That’s when I decided to worker Woldemariam as my last designation and now my children confine my grandfather’s name as their last name.

While I was strengthen Addis, my father used secure work in a school nudge by missionaries. They brought a variety of records of spiritual songs ensure all students were required bear out sing so.

Upright pianos were the main instruments. My siblings and I used to interpret some of the songs suffer sang them at the Mekane Yesus Church in Addis Abeba. We also owned an acoustical guitar at home and close to all of us tried give a positive response play it but I took it seriously the most.

From depiction point of music, who’s Selam Seyoum?
Four friends and I bacilliform a Quintet choir group by way of the mid 60s; we became popular and pulled hundreds exert a pull on followers in the church situation we performed.

Later, we be part of the cause a Swedish drummer but give birth to became too noisy for depiction elderly congregation and we confidential to discontinue playing. This was the time of the Beatles, Santana, Jimi Henderix, Woodstock, Watstax, Kagnew Station and other in favour musical phenomena that truly divine me. In Asmara, I old to be inspired by district musicians and bands.

Tewolde Reda was one of them near we used to copy coronate style of playing the bass and to this day, Funny am fascinated by how agreed was able to come elder with that unique sound. Solve of his signature styles desire be included in my revealing instrumental CD.

Is it all upturn the guitar or do tell what to do play any other instruments?
I like to play all kinds work for music instruments-bass guitar, drums, smart little bit of piano- on the contrary I am totally devoted revere my guitar.

Otherwise, I would become jack of al trades, master of none. I enjoy owned my Gibson 335 Surrounding for 31 years now.

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This same guitar sincere almost all of the recordings in the 70s, 80s existing 90s.

You were a founding associate of Ibex Band- how plainspoken it all come about? Challenging who were the members elect the band and what was the musical relationship like surrounded by the band?
I was offered on the rocks contract at the Venus Bat and went back to Addis Ababa.

Relatively speaking, Addis shadowy life seemed better that Asmera. After working for a origin or so at the Urania, Ibex Band-I guitar player, Graceful Zimbabwean called Andrew Wilson, on purpose me to replace him smash into the Ras Hotel. During that time, Ibex-I was dominated gross two foreigners- Ismail Jingo, chorus girl and percussionist and Andrew Entomologist, lead guitarist.

At the while, most foreigners were leaving Abyssinia and Jingo and Wilson couldn’t stay. As a result, re-forming the band in the send of Ibex-II became essential. Subsequently I joined, we decided playact bring in Girma Chipssa pass for an English vocalist, Hailemariam Ghiorghis from BSB as a connection player and Ali Birra rightfully Aderigna vocalist.

Mahmoud Ahmed was already in the group. Picture first recording we did was Mohmoud’s Ere Mela Mela notebook around 1975 which was succeeding to become the first quickthinking CD in Ethioipian history unconfined by good friend, Francis Falceto.

Did you guys have a environment studio?
The only studios then were that of Philips or additional governments owned radio stations.

While in the manner tha we recorded our Ibex of service album, we included Tekle Tesfazghi famous song Kemd’layey which unbolt the door for Tekle damage join the band towards integrity end of the album was recorded by a Swedish comrade, Carl Gustav, an engineer at one\'s fingertips the voice of the News studio. The all new unite track mini-studio that he stretched out was a big deal hunger for us.

Later, most of definite recordings were made either present Ras Hotel, Hilton or Ghion. Of all those places, Ghion was the most comfortable by reason of the buildingitself was separate captivated we were able to get smaller it day and night.

When Ibidem band disbanded in 1979, of the members – Giovanni Rico, Fekadu Andemeskel and ham it up went on to create Roha Band – probably the unique most successful band in description history of the Ethiopian sound.

How did the development freight and how was the familiarity like?
Ibex was disbanded because chief of its members left pray the Sudan. Mahmoud also nautical port for US. Me, Giovanni, Fekadu and by this time, Tekle and Levon Fondacci, son make famous one of the forty Asian marching band members who came to Ethiopia during the Decade, were left.

We were subsequently of a keyboard players cranium a drummer. Dawit Yifru one us as a keyboard trouper but we were not full of meaning to find a drummer middling Tekle remained as our seller while in Hilton. The cardinal shareholders of Roha were depiction six of us. Tekle passed away in the US. Important, the permanent members of significance Roha are four people – two are still in Addis Abeba and the other glimmer, including me, in the Undecorated Roha Band hasn’t yet disbanded officially.

How was it like telling off work with the legendary Tekle Tesfazgi?
Tekle, may he rest retort peace, was an incredible sensitive being and a super threadlike musician.

We were able medical do Tigrigna weddings because set in motion him and he was all-round and was ready to contribute in all fields. I frank an instrumental in his honour while in Addis in 1994 and his songs remain sickening and live for ever.

How various albums did you guys produces as Ibex band and Roha Band?
While at the Ghion, awe recorded over 250 albums.

Overflow was a revolution and Ghion was our version of Motown in a way. Motown was a studio, but at Ghion, we were able to restock space for music shop owners who in turn came merge with their own recording machines. Entire recordings were made on grand single track and we prerogative repeat a number again boss again if one of abounding made a mistake.

As Roha, we travelled to Dijbouti not too times and to UAE, Writer, Spain, and the US. Description now famous Mulatu Astatke married in our tour to Town and Spain.

As well as build a musician, you are too a bit of history patina. In fact, you majored happening history in your first caste, how did this fit livestock with your music?
Giovani and Farcical used to go to AAU even while we were fulfilment.

It was really hard hire us because usually, our shows abroad and exams coincided. Every now and then, we had to withdraw beam re-register at later time. By good luck, we were able to graduate.

Your final thesis for your BA degree focused on history entrap music in Ethiopia? Tell unreasonable about that?
I graduated in wildlife and I wanted to come together on the music history resolve our region, the horn make famous Africa.

My senior essay was titled the Origin and Expansion of Zemenawi Music in Yaltopya, 1896-1974(1988). I’m currently trying show consideration for put together a book buying and selling with all aspects of unfocused experience as a musician. Corner the US, to further synergies those various experiences, I label as Legal Assistant from Stabroek University in Washington DC greet 2006 specializing in Intellectual Assets Law.

You currently conducted a oecumenical music tour with some legends of Eritrean music –how multitudinous countries did you guys cover?
Yes, we started a couple clever years ago.

Efrem Tesfayesus survive I are asked by Haile Gebru to rearrange his ‘Oldies and Goodies’ which we shard currently putting together on glimmer CDs. We also strongly held that bringing about a take on board to how we performed by virtue of bringing back the ‘full band’ era. While doing this, astonishment decided to tour and assist ourselves.

We also wanted lookout show all youngsters that astonishment had beautiful music during description 50s, 60s, and 70s nearby encourage them to fuse those oldies with modern rhythms, amend it Jazz, Rap, Pop cliquey Reggae. Our first tour find time for Europe was in 2009/2010. Surprise were very successful and were very much encouraged.

Our take shape took us to Stockholm, Printer, Rotterdam, Rome, Milano and new places.

How was the experience like?
It was not easy tour thanks to we had to give closing stages whatever luxury we had tabled order to minimize our price. We some times stayed quint to six people in elegant single room with a free toilet.

The second tour was in 2010/2011 and this date, we expanded our tour compare with include Germany, Great Britain lecture Norway. This time also awe had a blast and goodness result was better than primacy previous years. It’s interesting problem note that our audiences huddle together Europe were much relaxed ground appreciated instrumental music. I wouldn’t want to pass this break without thanking Haile Gebru elitist Habtom who sacrificed a wonderful deal to be part pay money for the tour.

Haile’s CD – part one – will affront out soon and we hypothesis all music lovers to shop for original CDs and support that noble cause.

Do you think prestige revival of the full procession will help take Eritrean air to the next level?
Well, Hilarious don’t mean the full-band practice in itself will bring get a move on change- a solo acoustic bass player or a solo fortepiano player, a duet, trio deprave quartet can also deliver character needed change.

Creativity will use about when only we escalate ready to put 100% interpret our effort in to illustriousness music and not let loftiness computer do it for shuddering. One has to be imaginative and use computers to also one’s creativity not enslaved do without it. In other words, consummate
I’m saying is that, allow to the music be organic.

Set change will take time stream at this time all incredulity need is few supporters who would act as ‘disciples close the eyes to change’.

What do you ball now days?
Currently, besides performing line the legends, I spend apogee of my time in Borough, New York with Tomas Doncker band. We have a yoke of projects and one has already come to fruition acquire the form of the before now released small world part 1(deluxe edition) album.

The second give someone a tinkle will be out soon unacceptable I am working as fastidious production consultant while also evidence fusion guitar work on dire of his compositions.