Kazanchis / Togo Street / 9.017613, 38.787066 / Meskal Feast (Feast of Fire) is one of the most important religious holidays celebrated in Ethiopia / The preparation takes all day and everwhere you can see how much attention the Ethiopians pay to it / The most important celebrations take place in the centre of Addis Abeba on a representative square where there is a large state procession with the greatest personalities (with the president of the country in the front) / This festival also takes place on a smaller scale in every district, every street where there is a enormous fire after dark made of a huge pile of branches / This is when a group of neighbours gather around the fire commemorating the discovery of the True Cross of Christ in 326 A.D. by Empress Helena, while eating, drinking and playing music together / In this sacred time there is a solemn but relaxed and joyful atmosphere that I tried to retain on this recording //
About the Artist
Rafał Kołacki (https://soundcloud.com/rafalkolacki) is a musician affiliated with the following projects: HATI, Mammoth Ulthana, Innercity Ensamble, T’ien Lai and Molok Mun / He has recorded and released a dozen of records and performed around the world (Unsound New York, CTM Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz, etc.) / He is the co-author of the following multimedia projects Tonopolis (2010) www.tonopolis.pl oraz Orient Potockiego / Dźwiękopis (2012) / He also performs solo penetrating field recordings in various forms, acoustic percussion music and drone electronics / He has recorded for films (Panoptikon, 2013), and sound dramas (Bajki dla odważnych 2013) and released three albums so far: Tonopolis. Impression from the Town (2010), Panoptikon (2013) and Ninkyo Dantai (2014) / He runs an independent record label Noisen Records / He released two fields recordings records Aux oreilles d'un etranger (2015) and Hijra / NOISE from the Jungle (2016) /
www.rafalkolacki.pl
www.mammoth-ulthana.eu
https://myspace.com/hatitah
www.innercityensemble.bandcamp.comwww.noisen-records.com
