Dear Akale Wube,

Here is a nice surprise which we received this morning.  Mr. Haileyesus, an Ethiopian architect who was present at our first concert at the Goethe Institute wrote us a beautiful hand written letter to express his feelings about our music.  It was heart warming to read his letter and I  had to transcribe it letter by letter in this post.  Here goes:


Dear Akale Wube,

I would like to express to you that I have been magnificently pleasured by your musical Jaz consurt in Addis Ababa Ethiopia on November 25th 2010, in the out door "amphitheatre" when the night's stars and the moon also witnesed your miraculus sound of Ethiopian great soul heats of our great composer"s".  You were great.  You were miraculus.  You have analised the chemistry of Ethiopian soul core.  You have extended its modernity like transplant with best preferences in your musical language analysis.  You have shown us extention and direction towards the growth of the future in Ethiopian music.

I was born in the beginning of 1950.  I have been living in Mulatu Astatkje's soul jaz life. You have shown a further distance.   You have also shown and have made the audience of our young generation to be aware of jaz specialy in tearms of Ethiopian music context.  Those jaz musics were there in Ethiopia.  They were great but hidden in archives where the young generation could hardly notice them.  You have unfolded them.  You have polished them.  You have put them in the laundary machine, you have ironed them.  You have perfumed them.  Then you have extended them through your musical genesesisal interpretation.  Then you surprized us.

I could not belive it when I first saw you.  I just said in my mind "What are those French musicians going to demonstrate?"  The music started then my eyes opened.  Then my eyes opened more wider.  Then my mustles in my eye skin tried to heart as I could not open it any more.  My heart was floating with the stars and the moon in the night open sky live show of yours.

The extra ordinary thing is the vision at the time.  Sounds are coming out in Ethiopia jaz order?  From handsome French men.  It was great.  It was great.  I was in the year 2010.  You  took me to year 2050.  Modern Ethiopia 2050.  You opened a cloged path to Ethiopian Jaz to specialy the young generation.  You were woonderful.  You were beautiful.  You have made us love our music mire than we do now.  You have put a new dimension in Ethiopian Jaz. Specialy it iss a vitamin, nutrition, to motivat it to add speed to its growth.

Balcha Haileyesus, Ethiopian Professional Practicing Architect