Fusing Waqooyi music and Amharic music

[Hawdian]

I reckon fusing the Masinko instrument of Ethiopia and the Kaban used in the traditional Waqooyi qaraami songs would make an excellent collaboration. I can foresee this happening in the near future...

Masinko is a single-stringed bowed lute commonly found in the musical traditions of Ethiopia and Eritrea as well as Uganda and many other parts of central and western Africa even they they vary from one another.

The Ethiopian Maskinko



Kaban is the Somali word for oud, which is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in Arabic, Hebrew/Jewish, Greek, Turkish, Byzantine, North African (Chaabi, Classical, and Andalusian), Somali (specially in the north) and Middle Eastern music.

The Oud/Kaban



The Maskinko in action in this traditional Amharic song from Gondor.



And the Kaban in action and the Bahsaney Hargeysay song by Salah Qasim (written by Mohamed Ibrahim Hadraawi for Abdi Qays). Hadraawi was sending his greetings to his dear friend Abdi Qays. The old Isaaq generation that died in 1991 used to be driven and they used to grab everything and every opportunity. They grabbed the oud itself from Aden/Yemen and it was imported by a group called Kaba Cad (The White Shoes) which included legendary Abdillahi Qarshe (father of Somali music), Mohamed Haji Ali Guhaad (San Yareh), Mohamed Ismaaciil "Barkhad Cas" and Daauud Yare and Yusuf Haji Adan (the father of Fowzia). Today it's a different story. The Oud is no more indigenous than the Maskinko.

Kaba Cad past their knowledge to Aw Farah and his group who found Walaalaha Hargeisa which included the likes of Mohamed Moge, Ahmed Moge and many others. When they tried to organize a concert in Mogadishu at first they were refused because the south rejected their new style of music but once they were given a chance, the next shows were all fully booked and Mogadishu had to wait 8 months...the rest is history.

Like the oud, I am confident, the Maskinko will enrich our music culture. Just 80 years ago, our people didn't know what oud was. Because of radio Hargeisa, our new instrument thanks to Aden we conquered the rest of the Somalis with our unique Qaraami hits and as a result Hargeisa was crowned "hogaaygi faanka". Those old generations were innovative, pioneers and curious minds. The new generation is retreating, isolating and has withdrawn from all aspects of all human contacts.



Reer Waqooyi have refused to shake their booty like the Hawiye and their Bantu cousins, so I am hoping they are more open minded to shoulder shaking than baadhi shaking. I think shoulders are more honorable. Personally, I think these Amhara girls shaking their shoulders are more dignified than the Konfuur niiko ladies.

On that note, I put the question to you, can kaban work with Maskinko?

[gurey25]

ethiopian girls give me a gag reflex..
its the BO.
i avoid them like the plague,

for some reason i like eritreans

[Hawdian]

Gurey that's like saying I avoid Somali girls but I prefer Djiboutians. Eritreans are mostly Tigray and Ethiopia's ruling elite is Tigray today.

Eritreans are just runaway Tigray don't be fooled by the fake European borders sxb. Ethiopian on the other hand is very diverse ethnics.

Eritreans are mostly Habesha except few tribes such as Rashaida and Bin Amer.

This is "Eritrean" music



And this is Tigrinya music of Ethiopia



I prefer Amharic music because it has more energy.

[gurey25]

maybe its a class thing, but i think they look slightly different.
i can tell the difference most of the time.

the class difference will probably explain why ethiopians stink and eritreans dont.
i might have been hanging out with upper class eritreans.

[Hawdian]

Most Eritreans in the Diaspora are from Bilen and Tigre and both of them are originally Tigray people no matter how hard they try to deny. Few generations ago, most of their fathers were more Habesha then present day Ethiopians. If you ask your Eritrean friends with the new Arabic names the names of their grandfathers and grand-grandfathers, they will tell you its Gebre or other pure Tigrinya names.

These Eritreans were Arabnized in the last 60 years. The movement for free Eritrea was originally by Eritrean Muslims such as Hamid Idris Awate, Abdalla Idris Muhammad Suleiman and others. You ask your Eritrean friends, what is the difference between Eritreans in Asmara and Tigreans in Adwa (birthplace of Meles and the mother of Isaias). Meles iyo Isaias wa ilmaabti waxa kala dhalay laba hablood oo walaalo ah. Eritrean iyo Tigray of Ethiopia wa sidaas.

Hamid Idris Awate (10 April 1910 – 28 May 1962) was an Eritrean independence leader and the creator of the Eritrean Liberation Army (the armed wing of the Eritrean Liberation Front).

Berigi hore they used to be true brothers lakin waxay isnaceen 1890s marki Yohannes IV dilay nin Beja ahi (Eritrean Muslim). Ninkas oo tageersana the Mahdi of Sudan. He felt Yohannes IV betrayed the Muslim Habesha in the north wagas may jirin Eritrea. When Yohannes IV was killed, Abyssinia became like present Somalia, many warlords, total collapse and Menelik of the Oromo/Amhara took advantage and he sided with the British and later gave what's Eritrea to the Italians...once again Muslims felt betrayed...that's how they began the liberation for Eritrea...and later hijacked by their non-Muslim cousin Tigrinya from Adwa, Shire and Tambien.

If Yohannes IV had a son or a successor, Eritrea would still be part of Habesha and most likely there wouldn't be Menelik in the picture and hence Somali Region and most parts of Oromia would not be part of modern Ethiopia. Menelik influenced the British by promising them access to Sudan even though in reality he didn't even control the route to Sudan but the Tigrayan warlords did.

Wuxu wa isku mid. Ninyar differ that migrated from Arabia even Sudan which shares border and the rest are Habesha.