The golden age of Ethiopian popular music (as heard on the fabled ETHIOPIQUES series) is famous in part for the sparsity of material that it yielded: The state-owned recording industry was largely a ramshackle government vanity, and while music of the music it captured was strikingly haunting, only a few dozen tracks were recorded in the 1960s and '70s...
Express Band - Ethiopian Instrumental Music
Since then, the floodgates have opened as Ethiopia has more or less entered the modern world -- more artists are making and recording more music than was dreamed possible back in the politically repressive "good old days," and the fruits of this renaissance are heard on this 6-CD set.
The tracks are from the late 1990s and early '00s -- the artists are generally younger, more modern musicians, although a few old-timers like Mahmoud Ahmed are still alive and kicking, and sound as cool as ever. Although this collection doesn't have the same eerie power as the '70s-era recordings, anyone who got into the ETHIOPIQUES discs will want to check this out as well, to see where the music has gone since then.
01 - The Roha Band - Ambasel (6:24)
02 - Girma Wolde Michael - Wetatwa (6:42)
03 - Theodros Mitiku - Teddy's Mood (6:28)
04 - Express Band - Ye-Har (4:59)
05 - Girma Wolde Michael - Shemonmwanayewa (7:33)
06 - Theodros Mitiku - Awash (6:40)
07 - Express Band - Innate Nesh (4:27)
08 - Girma Wolde Michael - Tizita (6:20)
09 - Theodros Mitiku - Kifu Ayinkash (7:31)
10 - Express Band - Yehiywote Hiywet (5:53)
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