Lyre performance by Gamo Defersha GDE2012-01-03_001

Gamo Defersha plays an autobiographical song in the kaldi baaba-rhythm on his lyre. Seid Ali Fayiso worked as an assistant in the Baskeet documentation project. He established contacts to local musicians and organised recording sessions. At the time of the project he worked in the Culture and Information Office of the Basketo Special Woreda. Yvonne Treis is a linguist and works on Ethiopian languages at CNRS in France.