This is AWESOME!! Wow! The excellent Sound Way records have surpassed themselves with this, the second part of a planned trio of Nigeria-focused compilations....
Originally wandering minstrels who roamed the old Abyssinian countryside, many Azmaris settled down after the founding of Addis Ababa just over a century...
For a long time downplayed and deprived of any recognition whatsoever, Oromo music is one of the liveliest amongst Ethiopians musical traditions. Volume...
Mahmoud Ahmed has proved the star vocalist in the Ethiopique catalogue - he has invented a world of uncertain borders, an improbable mix of Eastern-African...
Classic Richard Evans production at the mighty Chess Records from 1967. featuring mainstay of the label Ramsey Lewis in full flow along with Cleveland...
The Swinging Addis scene of the 1960s and early 1970s, before the military takeover, was a period of intense experimenting that encompassed the traditional...
A side 'Coiled' has received airplay from Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC Radio 1 Experimental as well as from Distance on Rinse.fm, and it's not difficult to see...
As was the case with Ethiopiques 1 and 3, this 24th CD in the Ethiopiques collection presents a selection of powerful pieces from the historical Amha...
The Ethiopiques reissue series is excellent and we recommend you buy them all - but if your budget doesn't stretch to 21 CDs and counting then this is...
Orchestra Ethiopia was a flexible group of around a dozen musicians, who between 1963 and 1975 led a revival of interest in the country’s traditional...