Preserving ethnic music and culture...
“Roaring Abyss” is a documentary showcasing Ethiopian cultures and musical traditions. The film is risky because director Quino Pinero presents the songs and dialogue without translations. This is initially frustrating but, after a while, the viewer gets the sense that he’s really immersed in Ethiopian culture. Pinero’s visuals show the joy on the faces of the performers and careful editing allows us to understand the points he’s making.<br /><br />Known for its distinctive genre of Ethio-Jazz, a blend of western musical sounds, Armenian brass instruments, and Ethiopia’s traditional folk and religious music, the music scene in the country is amazingly diverse. But this diversity, which has evolved over generations, is being pushed aside by electronics and pop culture more than ever before.<br /><br />To best capture the unique sounds of traditional Ethiopian music, Pinero and his team spent two years traveling across mountains, deserts, and forests to find and record the last interpreters of this culture and their stories. Full of field recordings of all forms of traditional music — from wind orchestras from the time of Emperor Haile Selassie to the Azmari, Ethiopian poets — the music’s ancient past comes to life, performed on traditional instruments such as the Krar (a five or six-stringed lyre), Washint (type of flute), Masenqo (single stringed bowed lute), and Kebero (double-headed drum with animal skin stretched over it).<br /><br />The film reminded me of the work of Alan Lomax, who traveled across America making field recordings of 20th-century folk music. Like Lomax, Pinero is an ethnomusicologist, seeking out Ethiopia’s music, recording it, and preserving it for future generations.<br /><br />There are no bonus features on the unrated, widescreen DVD release.
The movie title "Roaring Abyss," available on Movies & TV, has received an average rating of 4.4 from 3 reviewers. 
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : If you go out around music bars and venues in Addis Ababa, you will enjoy a very characteristic scene, but if you want to get an idea of the different sounds from the country, you will get a very narrow view of it. There are more than eighty different nationalities and cultures spread all along the mountains, deserts and forests of Ethiopia. In order to unveil the music universe and keep a record of the incredibly endangered music traditions, the Roaring Abyss filmmakers spent two years performing field recordings around every corner of Ethiopia, documented in this audiovisual poem..