Vincent Moon's Portraits of Ethiopian Music

From Africa is a Country Thu Feb 21 2013, 09:00:03

Post by Addis Rumble * "Ethiopia is an island," Vincent Moon explains. The French filmmaker has been on the road for four years now travelling and filming music and spiritual rituals across the globe and releasing them through his Petites Planètes label. 2012 saw him spending three months in Ethiopia exploring and recording Easter in Gonder [...]

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