KUTU, the Ethio-trans sensation of the moment is causing the internet to talk and setting festival stages on fire. Between big beatings at each of their concerts and their first clip Baamet Beal in full viral rise (280K views in barely a month), we realize that we are dealing here with the revelation of the next school year.
Take in the madness, the trance and the mead vapors of Addis Ababa nights, strewn with stars and brilliant singers, clear channels and bridges with rock, jazz and electronics, plugged into ancestral music as on those of the future, and you will have a small idea of the concept of KUTU. A cry – “Let’s go!” – which encourages us to move forward, and which perfectly sums up the enthusiasm for this unprecedented project. From today’s poems, collection of tribal rhythms, Hewan Gebrewold, Haleluya Tekletsadi and Theo Ceccaldi imagine a telluric set where improvisation and vocal flights intersect, supported by a powerful rhythm and a line up with contagious vitality: electro-cosmic keyboards, hypnotic basses, exalted dances and stellar voices…
This scholarly and dancing madness, cut out for public transport, is indeed what makes the strength, the water and the fire of KUTU : whether on stage, where musicians and singers go wild, or in this disc – their first – Guramayle. All you have to do is listen to it.
Album release Guramayle, September 2, 2022.
Titles performed at the Grand studio
– Baamet Beal Live RFI + RFI video
-Yambarafrom the album Guramayle
– Dantada Live RFI + RFI video.
Line Up
– Theo Ceccaldi, violin
-Hewan Gebrewoldsong
– Haleluya Tekletsadiksong
– Cyril Atefbattery
– Valentin Ceccaldicello
– Akemi Fujimorikeyboards (La Feline)
His
Benoit Letirant, Fabien Mugneret
Images RFI Videos
Leo Bernard, Cyril Etienne, Dominique Fiant
playlist
-Tshegue • M’Benga Bila
-Alewya • Sweatshirt
-Pongo • Like that
– Gigi • Zomaye.
(Rebroadcast July 10, 2022)