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Sub-titled 'Ethiopian Jazz and Instrumental Music (1969-74)'. UK compilation drawn from the catalogs of Amha Records an d Kaifa Records. The Artists may be unfamiliar but the musical heritage contained within is hugely rewarding. Vibrant and sassy urban pop, Arabic elements mixing sinuously with low...

Sub-titled 'Mahmoud Ahmed, Ere Mela Mela (1975)'. UK compilation drawn from the catalogs of Amha Records and Kaifa Records. The Artists may be unfamiliar but the musical heritage contained within is hugely rewarding. Vibrant and sassy urban pop, Arabic elements mixing sinuously with low down funk '...

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With ties--most of them clearly nonbinding--to the sanctioned musical institutions of Ethiopia in the 1960s (police bands and the like), the singers and players on the Ethiopiques series of reissues were in a funky bind. They had pledged some allegiance to Emperor Haile Selassie I and his imperial d...

Sub-titled 'Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian Music (1969-75)'. UK compilation drawn from the catalogs of Amha Records and Kaifa Records. The Artists may be unfamiliar but the musical heritage contained within is hugely rewarding. Vibrant and sassy urban pop, Arabic elements mixing sinuously with low...

The introductory album to what is an ongoing series on the music of Ethiopia from the '60s and '70s features a variety of vocal and instrumental tracks from artists mostly unfamiliar to Western audiences. This brief period of liberated creativity before a military shutdown yielded an astonishing bur...

Volume 5 in this remarkable series focuses on the music of Eritrea and Tigray (now a province of Ethiopia), the cradle of the Abyssinian Empire and homeland of the Queen of Sheba. Like the Ethiopian selections found elsewhere in the series, these were recorded in the late '60s and early '70s, a very...

Nearly 20 volumes on, the celebrated Ethiopiques series again spotlights Mahmoud Ahmed, this time as he sounded circa 1974. The era's warmly resonant, slightly remote sound environment just suited his powerful, shivery tenor. His voice scales the dizzy peaks and plunging abysses of funked-up old-sch...

Alemayehu Eshete, whose works first appeared on volume 3 and volume 8 of this fabulous series, was perhaps the foremost stylist from the golden age of Ethiopian pop music. Nicknamed "the Ethiopian James Brown," he could certainly get down like the Godfather of Soul, and his band could hang onto a ri...

Full color interview picture CD and a 100 page full colorbook with stories, interviews and a history of Offspring.The disc comes in a separate, standard jewel case & is housednext to the CD-sized book in a full color slipcase. 1997Masterights Ltd. release....