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...
Soul Jazz Records’ new release Black Fire! New Spirits! is a deluxe double CD (and limited triple LP) exploring deep, radical and spiritual jazz in the...
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...
Russ Gershon and his Grammy-nominated Either/Orchestra have included many Ethiopian pieces in their repertoire in recent years. In January 2004, the...
Diggin deep within the crates, Kon and Amir have unearthed some extremely rare fantastic disco, latin, funk gems! Kon and Amir known some years for their...