ETHIOPIAN MODERN INSTRUMENTAL HITS (ETHIOPIQUES) by VARIOUS ARTISTS

SKU71148
ArtistVARIOUS ARTISTS
TitleETHIOPIAN MODERN INSTRUMENTAL HITS (ETHIOPIQUES)
LabelHEAVENLY SWEETNESS
Catalog #HS092VL
Tag
ReleaseW 01 - 2013
FormatVinyl - EULP
EAN Barcode3700409812453
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Tracks

  1. Mulatu Astatqé - Munayé
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/e/71148_ethiopian_modern_instrumental_hits/1_mulatu_astatqe_-_munaye.mp3
  2. Mulatu Astatqé - Mètché Dershé
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/e/71148_ethiopian_modern_instrumental_hits/2_mulatu_astatqe_-_metche_dershe.mp3
  3. Tèsfa-Maryam Kidané - Yètèsfa Tezeta
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/e/71148_ethiopian_modern_instrumental_hits/3_tesfa-maryam_kidane_-_yetesfa_tezeta.mp3
  4. Mulatu Astatqé - Kasalèfkut Hulu
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/e/71148_ethiopian_modern_instrumental_hits/4_mulatu_astatqe_-_kasalefkut_hulu.mp3
  5. Mulatu Astatqé - Tezeta
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/e/71148_ethiopian_modern_instrumental_hits/5_mulatu_astatqe_-_tezeta.mp3
  6. Bahta Gèbrè-Heywèt - Ewnèt Yèt Lagegnèsh
  7. Mulatu Astatqé - Yègellé Tezeta
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/e/71148_ethiopian_modern_instrumental_hits/7_mulatu_astatqe_-_yegelle_tezeta.mp3
  8. Bahta Gèbrè-Heywèt - Bèmgnot Alnorem
  9. Mulatu Astatqé - Yèkèrmo Sèw
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/e/71148_ethiopian_modern_instrumental_hits/9_mulatu_astatqe_-_yekermo_sew.mp3
  10. Tèsfa-Maryam Kidané - Heywèté
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/e/71148_ethiopian_modern_instrumental_hits/10_tesfa-maryam_kidane_-_heywete.mp3

Description

2023 REPRESS **
180gram vinyl. Reissue of the original Ethiopian vinyl compilation.

"Ethiopians' deep-seated ethiocentrism, the legacy of a thousand years of history, has contributed in no small way to their music's strong national identity, particularly impervious to any African influences. Latin influences, so pervasive in the great musical centers of West Africa and the Congo, have been similarly rebuffed, despite the brilliant attempts of a musician like Mulatu Astatke. He was the first and for a long time the only Ethiopian to have studied music abroad (England and USA). In the late '60s, he brought back 'ethio-jazz', as well as a passion for Latin rhythms that was not readily shared by the Ethiopian audience. As early as 1966, he released a single and two LPs in the US entitled Afro-Latin Soul (and a third LP, Mulatu of Ethiopia in 1972), with his Ethiopian Quintet composed of American and Latin-American musicians (Worthy Records). That was three years before Fela's first American tour and six years prior to Manu Dibango's key breakthrough with the release of Soul Makossa in the Western 'pre-World music' market. All this goes to show how much the history of the African continent's musical modernity should be reconsidered in light of the Ethiopian adventure, even though this lone spark bore little relation, musically or ideologically to the musical revolutions initiated most notably by Ghanian highlife, South African jazz, Congolese rumba or, much later on, by Fela."

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