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@clintsmoker
I recently borrowed a cd from brixton library, a compilation of ethiopian jazz soul and big bands from the era 1969 to 1975. unknown to me this was a period of intense upheaval in ethiopian society (in fact unknown to me ethiopia even had such a musical tradition) with the end of the haile sellaisse years and the beginning of military dictatorship. The upshot of all this was some fucking amazing music. Now my question is do any of you guys have any of this sort of stuff? The cd talks about buda musique being the license holdera to the music and the artists include names like:
tesfa maryam kidane
mulatu astatqe
girma beyene
alemayehu eshete
...and many more..
would be nice to hear some more of this.