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Ethiopian Modern Instrumentals Hits = ሙዚቃ ሕይወቴ = モダン・インストゥルメンタルズ・ヒッツ

Ethiopian Modern Instrumentals Hits = ሙዚቃ ሕይወቴ = モダン・インストゥルメンタルズ・ヒッツ

Artists

Various

Catno

PLP-7195

Formats

1x Vinyl LP Album Stereo

Country

Japan

Release date

Jan 1, 2021

Styles

Various - Ethiopian Modern Instrumentals Hits = ሙዚቃ ሕይወቴ = モダン・インストゥルメンタルズ・ヒッツ | P-Vine Records (PLP-7195)

LITA: ...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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A1

Mulatu Astatke - Munaye

A2

Mulatu Astatke - Meche Dereshe

A3

Tesfa Mariam Kidane - Yetesfa Tezeta

A4

Mulatu Astatke - Kasalefkut Hulu

A5

Mulatu Astatke - Tezeta

B1

Bahta G. Hiwot - Ewnet Yet Lagegnesh

B2

Mulatu Astatke - Yegele Tezeta

B3

Bahta G. Hiwot - Bemgnot Alnorm

B4

Mulatu Astatke - Ykermo Saw

B5

Tesfa Mariam Kidane - Heiwote

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