Tag: Addis Ababa

• ‘Sons of Ethiopia’ by Admas is a blissful Ethiopian synth treasure, a new wave for ex-pats in 1984 – reissued for the first time by Frederiksberg Records

  This is the first ever reissue of Admas’ Sons of Ethiopia, a holy grail of epic proportions – it’s such a futuristic sounding album of fusion and roots, wonderfully channeled through the musicans who had left Ethiopia for America and recorded this privately pressed album in Washington DC in 1984. Admas were not musicians from…

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  June 30, 2020

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  Abegasu Shiota, Addis Ababa, Admas, Andreas Vingaard, Carsten Meinert Kvartet, Derg, Electro, Ethiopian music, Frederiksberg Records, Gasha, Girma Beyene, Haile Selassie, Hailu Mergia, Henock Temesgen, Highlife, Jazz, Mulatu, Sons of Ethiopia, Tewodros ‘Teddy’ Aklilu, Washington DC

• New Mulatu Astatke single – ‘Kulun Mankwaleshi’ with Black Jesus Experience on Agogo Records – is out now ahead of new album in June

  Legendary vibraphonist and ‘Father of Ethio-jazz’, Mulatu Astatke, joins forces with Melbourne-based eight-piece Black Jesus Experience on their latest album To Know Without Knowing released via German imprint, Agogo Records, this summer. The nine-track assembly will once again feature the unmistakable Ethiopian style –  following their first collaborative studio full-length album, Cradle With Humanity, in…

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  March 30, 2020

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  Addis Ababa, Agogo Records, Bob Sedergreen, Cradle With Humanity, Enushu Taye, Ethiopia, Ian Dixon, Kulun Mankwaleshi, Melbourne, Mr. Monk, Mulatu Astatke, Peter Harper, The Black Jesus Experience