Girma Yifrashewa – My Strong Will [2LP] Drone / Minimalism Donaldson imagines his listeners are

Donaldson imagines his listeners are just like himself: fascinated and addicted to the spiritual power of uncomplicated pop classics

their beams gradually uniting to form one pulsating

Drag City and Ajax while releasing seminal sides by the likes of Sandra Bell

and comes apart

seemingly electronic texturework on ‘tendencies and desires’

Girma Yifrashewa – My Strong Will [2LP] Drone / Minimalism Donaldson imagines his listeners are"My Strong Will is a new album of "Ethiopian Classical Music" by Girma Yifrashewa. Recorded with Bulgarian musicians and the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, the album is a return to where Yifrashewa completed his own conservatory training in the late 1980s and early 1990s, across both sides of the fall of Communism. Guided by Yifrashewa's piano, these chamber works bring the music of Ethiopia into a Western Classical format,