Tag: Mulatu

• BEST OF 2023: Mississippi Records continue to find and reissue some of the finest and rarest music and field recordings – three highlights picked

  

  The annual discoveries and celebrations of artists and music by Mississippi Records are hugely appreciated and frequent throughout any year – three favourites in 2023 were the Canto A Lo Divino compilation, the debut album from Assiko Golden Band De Grand Yoff! and the reissue of the 1976 gem from Aselefech Ashine and Getenesh Kebret.…

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  December 9, 2023

  Chile, East Africa, Ethiopia, South America, spoken word, Uncategorized

  Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret, Assiko Golden Band De Grand Yoff!, Canto A Lo Divino, Chile, Dakar, Domino Sound, Emperor Haile Selassie, Ethiopia, Karl-Jonas Winqvist, Mahmoud Ahmed, Mississippi Records, Mouride Brotherhood, Mulatu, Museo Campesino En Movimiento, Senegal, Sing a Song Fighter, The Army Band, Tlahoun Gesesse, Wau Wau Collectif

• ‘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