By:Various Artists - Ethiopia - The Very Best Of Ethiopiques (Hypnotic Grooves From The Legendary Series) (CD, Imported)


2007 two CD set containing some of the very best tracks from the highly acclaimed Ethiopiques series featuring, among many others, award-winning Mahmoud Ahmed, national icon Tlahoun Gssss, the 'Broken Flowers' movie music of the legendary Mulatu Astatq and the Ethiopian James Brown Almayhu Esht. The evocative, elusive music of '70s Ethiopia - the last great undiscovered music from Africa - as championed by everyone from Elvis Costello to Robert Plant, Tom Waits to Patti Smith, Brain Eno to Jamie Cullum and finally now ready to crossover to the mainstream through this Manteca best of. In the dying years of Emperor Haile Sellaisse I and the first stirrings of a brutal military dictatorship the soul groups, jazz combos and big bands of Ethiopia played like never before or since. Mantra.

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2007 two CD set containing some of the very best tracks from the highly acclaimed Ethiopiques series featuring, among many others, award-winning Mahmoud Ahmed, national icon Tlahoun Gssss, the 'Broken Flowers' movie music of the legendary Mulatu Astatq and the Ethiopian James Brown Almayhu Esht. The evocative, elusive music of '70s Ethiopia - the last great undiscovered music from Africa - as championed by everyone from Elvis Costello to Robert Plant, Tom Waits to Patti Smith, Brain Eno to Jamie Cullum and finally now ready to crossover to the mainstream through this Manteca best of. In the dying years of Emperor Haile Sellaisse I and the first stirrings of a brutal military dictatorship the soul groups, jazz combos and big bands of Ethiopia played like never before or since. Mantra.

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General

Label

Manteca

Country of origin

United States

Release date

August 2007

Availability

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Originally released

October 2007

Actors

Dimensions

127 x 139 x 12mm (L x W x T)

Format

CD

Disks

2

Categories

LSN

XLY-A5J-112-2

Tracks

Disk 1

  1. Heywete - (with Tesfa-Maryam Kidane)
  2. Yekermo Sew - (with Mulatu Astatke)
  3. Yekatit - (with Mulatu Astatke)
  4. Enken Yelelebesh - (with Girma Beyene)
  5. Ewnet Yet Lagegnesh - (with Bahta Gebre-Heywet)
  6. Gubelye - (with Mulatu Astatke)
  7. Ere Mela Mela - (with Mahmoud Ahmed)
  8. Metche New - (with Mahmoud Ahmed)
  9. Tchero Adari Negn - (with Alemayehu Eshete)
  10. Telantena Zare - (with Alem Girma Band/Alemayehu Eshete)
  11. Muziqawi Silt - (with Wallias Band)
  12. Gedawo - (with Black Lion Band/Ayalew Mesfin)
  13. Tchuheten Betsemu - (with The Army Band/Tlahoun Gessesse)
  14. Tezeta - (with The All Star Band/Menelik Wesnatchew)

Disk 2

  1. Mother's Love - (with Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou)
  2. Sema - (with The Police Orchestra/Tlahoun Gessesse)
  3. Milnu - (with Tewelde Redda)
  4. Embi Ila - (with Beyene Habte)
  5. Tezeta - (with Mulatu Astatke)
  6. St Alamenem - (with Girma Beyene)
  7. Bn Mote - (with Dahlak Band/Muluqen Mellesse)
  8. Antchi Hoy - (with Getatchew Mekurya)
  9. Kulun Mankwalsh - (with The All Star Band/Tlahoun Gessesse)
  10. Shellla - (with Getatchew Mekurya)
  11. Mla Mla - (with Seyfu Yohannes)
  12. Atawurulegu Lla - (with Mahmoud Ahmed)
  13. Fetsum Denq Ledj Nsh - (with Mahmoud Ahmed)
  14. Abatatchen Hoy (Pater Noster) - (with Alemu Aga)



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