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Ethiopia: Falasha Adjuran / Various on CD

In their 1975 recording, Lin Lerner and Chad Wollner captured a Friday night Shabbat Shalom ceremony of the Falasha, Ethiopian Jews whose ancestors were exiled from Babylonia in 586. Lerner and Wollner also recorded various songs and dances of the Ajuran, a group of semi-nomadic cattle herders who live in Kenya, Somalia, and Egypt. Male Ajuran voices punctuate acapella singing with sharp inhalations and exhalations, creating a strong rhythmic background to songs on themes ranging from the divine ("King Song") to the everyday ("Camel Song").