Radia Show 498: "Ethiopian Son" by Martin Gambarotta & The X Static Tics From Radio Worm/Klangendum, Rotterdam, NL. "Radia" is a weekly show from an international group of stations, including Wave Farm's WGXC. Each week one station makes a show for all the rest. This week: "A collaboration that was staged during the Poetry International festival between the Argentine poet Gambarotta and X Static Tics (also known under names like Worm Sound Crew and Dr. Klangendum). Originally played live it is an audio drama in which the text of Gambarotta almost forms a kind of score. It’s said that at some point in the twentieth century, the great Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa published an essay with the title ‘My Son the Ethiopian’. It was dedicated with mocking irony to one of his teenage sons who, while studying at an expensive London private school, had converted to Rastafarianism. This is dedicated to all those who once were Ethiopian children."