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PLP-7195
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1x Vinyl LP Album Stereo
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Jan 1, 2021
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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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