<p>Girma Bèyènè & Akalé Wubé</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/girma-beyene-akale-wube/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/girma-beyene-akale-wube/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/girma-beyene</span><span class="invisible">-akale-wube/</span></a></p><p>“Mistakes on Purpose” is an album released in 2017, where Girma Bèyènè, singer, arranger, and a living legend of Ethiopian Pop, meets one of the best Western bands (from France) whose repertoire is inspired by Ethio-jazz.</p><p>Girma Bèyènè disappeared from the Addis Abeba music scene in 1981. Miraculously, he was invited by the exiled producer […]</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiojazz/" rel="tag">#Ethiojazz</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a></p>
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<p>Mereba - Heart of a Child<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLUtlsYxqpU" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLUtlsYxqpU"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLUtls</span><span class="invisible">YxqpU</span></a></p><p>From her album ‘The Breeze Grew a Fire'<br><a href="https://mereba.bandcamp.com/album/the-breeze-grew-a-fire" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mereba.bandcamp.com/album/the-breeze-grew-a-fire"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mereba.bandcamp.com/album/the-</span><span class="invisible">breeze-grew-a-fire</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a></p>
<p>Inside the First Ever Boiler Room in Ethiopia<br>The artist known as Ethiopian Records brought a bold and rooted vision to Addis Ababa's first take on the electronic music event.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGna2sP3fYc" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGna2sP3fYc"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGna2s</span><span class="invisible">P3fYc</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/electro/" rel="tag">#Electro</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a></p>
<p>The Story of Ethio Jazz</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/story-ethio-jazz-mulatu-astatke/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/story-ethio-jazz-mulatu-astatke/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/story-ethio-</span><span class="invisible">jazz-mulatu-astatke/</span></a></p><p>Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached […]</p><p><a href="/tags/60smusic/" rel="tag">#60smusic</a> <a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/ethiojazz/" rel="tag">#Ethiojazz</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/mulatuastatké/" rel="tag">#MulatuAstatké</a></p>
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<p>Intro for Jinja by the Nile Project</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/intro-video-jinja-nile-project/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/intro-video-jinja-nile-project/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/intro-video-</span><span class="invisible">jinja-nile-project/</span></a></p><p>In January 2013, the Nile Project brought together 18 musicians from Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt to experiment with a collaborative creative process that would last 10 days. Each musician brought 2 songs. In the mornings, they taught one another their respective musical languages. in the afternoons, [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/burundi/" rel="tag">#Burundi</a> <a href="/tags/egypt/" rel="tag">#Egypt</a> <a href="/tags/epk/" rel="tag">#EPK</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/kenya/" rel="tag">#Kenya</a> <a href="/tags/rwanda/" rel="tag">#Rwanda</a> <a href="/tags/sudan/" rel="tag">#Sudan</a> <a href="/tags/tanzania/" rel="tag">#Tanzania</a></p>
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<p>For the (hardcore) musicians around here, learn or extend your knowldege about the "Ethiopian Pentatonic Scales."<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_R9sycN7w" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_R9sycN7w"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_R9s</span><span class="invisible">ycN7w</span></a></p><p>In the above video's description on YouTube, there are plenty of playlists with examples for each scale type (yes, there are multiple scales...).</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/ethiojazz/" rel="tag">#EthioJazz</a> <a href="/tags/musictheory/" rel="tag">#MusicTheory</a></p>
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<p>Jano Band – Darign</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/jano-band-darign/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/jano-band-darign/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/jano-band-da</span><span class="invisible">rign/</span></a></p><p>Jano Band is an Ethiopian Rock band, mixing progressive rock with Ethiopian music. In September 2015, Jano performed live at Club H2O in Addis Ababa with a few songs including Darign. The video went viral on YouTube and the song was re-released as a bonus track on their second album Lerasih New. The band includes […]</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/rock/" rel="tag">#Rock</a></p>
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<p>Opika Pende – Africa At 78 RPM</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/opika-pende-africa-78-rpm/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/opika-pende-africa-78-rpm/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/opika-pende-</span><span class="invisible">africa-78-rpm/</span></a></p><p>“Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM” is a 4-CD collection featuring 100 tracks, released in 2011, taken from rare 78 RPM recordings of African music (1909 to mid-1960s), none of which have ever been issued on CD.</p><p>Many African countries appear in this compilation, edited by Jonathan Ward: [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/algeria/" rel="tag">#Algeria</a> <a href="/tags/compilation/" rel="tag">#Compilation</a> <a href="/tags/egypt/" rel="tag">#Egypt</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/morocco/" rel="tag">#Morocco</a> <a href="/tags/niger/" rel="tag">#Niger</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/somalia/" rel="tag">#Somalia</a> <a href="/tags/tunisia/" rel="tag">#Tunisia</a> <a href="/tags/oldafricanmusic/" rel="tag">#OldAfricanMusic</a></p>
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<p>Mulatu Astatke – Sketches of Ethiopia</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-sketches-ethiopia/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-sketches-ethiopia/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astat</span><span class="invisible">ke-sketches-ethiopia/</span></a></p><p>Sketches of Ethiopia is the first internationally distributed studio album by Ethiopian musician, composer, and arranger Mulatu Astatke, released in 2013.</p><p>The album’s closing track is “Surma”, a collaboration with the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, who co-wrote the song with Astatke.<br> <br><a href="/tags/ethiojazz/" rel="tag">#Ethiojazz</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/mulatuastatke/" rel="tag">#MulatuAstatke</a></p>
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<p>Mahmoud Ahmed & Badume’s Band – Mela Mela</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/mahmoud-ahmed-badume-band-mela-mela/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/mahmoud-ahmed-badume-band-mela-mela/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/mahmoud-ahme</span><span class="invisible">d-badume-band-mela-mela/</span></a></p><p>Mahmoud Ahmed, the Ethiopian crooner… Live @ Fiest’A Sète 2008.</p><p>Mahmoud Ahmed (Amharic: ማሕሙድ አሕመድ; born 8 May 1941) is an Ethiopian singer. He gained great popularity in Ethiopia in the 1970s and among the Ethiopian diaspora in the 1980s, before rising to international fame with African music fans in Europe and the Americas. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/blaugust2025/" rel="tag">#Blaugust2025</a> <a href="/tags/blaugust/" rel="tag">#Blaugust</a></p>
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<p>Beauties – Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret – ሸገኔዎች</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/aselefech-ashine-getenesh-kebret-beauties/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/aselefech-ashine-getenesh-kebret-beauties/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/aselefech-as</span><span class="invisible">hine-getenesh-kebret-beauties/</span></a></p><p>“Beauties” is a lost classic of the Ethiopian Golden Age, released in 1976. On this 1976 gem of a record, Aselefech Ashine and Getenesh Kebret’s voices intertwine in close harmony, the two “beauties” singing in duet across 10 gorgeous tracks.</p><p>The Army Band, which backed greats like Tlahoun Gesesse and Mahmoud Ahmed, brings [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/oldafricanmusic/" rel="tag">#OldAfricanMusic</a></p>
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<p>Ebne Hakim – Tsehaye (sun in Amharic)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSuaeGRo30" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSuaeGRo30"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSuae</span><span class="invisible">GRo30</span></a></p><p>Ethiopian Soul Music?</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/nowlistening/" rel="tag">#NowListening</a></p>
<p>Yishak Banjaw – Love Songs Vol. 2</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/yishak-banjaw-love-songs-vol-2/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/yishak-banjaw-love-songs-vol-2/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/yishak-banja</span><span class="invisible">w-love-songs-vol-2/</span></a></p><p>“Love Songs Vol. 2” by Yishak Banjaw, an album of instrumental tracks, could be defined as “Ethiopian Minimal-Wave from Outer Space!” and was recorded in 1986 in Eritrea.</p><p>Yishak Banjaw is a composer and keyboard player from Addis Ababa known to his country for his innovative compositions and unique sound. His ability to transform traditional […]</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/eritrea/" rel="tag">#Eritrea</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/instrumental/" rel="tag">#Instrumental</a> <a href="/tags/blaugust/" rel="tag">#Blaugust</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/africannews/" rel="tag">#AfricanNews</a> accounts to follow:</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@thecontinent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thecontinent</span></a></span> - Pan-African online newspaper run by non-profit based in South Africa<br>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@TUKOcoke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TUKOcoke</span></a></span> - Kenyan online news site<br>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ZekuZelalem</span></a></span> - Award-winning investigative reporter covering Ethiopia and Horn of Africa<br>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@beverly_ochieng" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>beverly_ochieng</span></a></span> - Security & media analyst focused on Africa<br>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@teachersupdates" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>teachersupdates</span></a></span> - Education news in Kenya<br>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://www.zitamar.com/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>index</span></a></span> - Business news in Mozambique</p><p><a href="/tags/africa/" rel="tag">#Africa</a> <a href="/tags/african/" rel="tag">#African</a> <a href="/tags/kenya/" rel="tag">#Kenya</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a></p>
<p>Nati Ker - Neger Neger | ነገር ነገር<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV4iG4nn5Iw" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV4iG4nn5Iw"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV4iG4</span><span class="invisible">nn5Iw</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a></p>
<p>Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou – Souvenirs</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou-souvenirs/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou-souvenirs/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/emahoy-tsegu</span><span class="invisible">e-maryam-guebrou-souvenirs/</span></a></p><p>“Souvenirs” is the first vocal album by the beloved, sublime, recently departed and much-missed Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.</p><p>The release contains profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and turmoil. These are songs of wisdom, loss, mourning, and exile, sung directly into a boombox [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/piano/" rel="tag">#Piano</a> <a href="/tags/folk/" rel="tag">#Folk</a></p>
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<p>Hailu Mergia, the Ethiopian one-man-band extraordinaire</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia-ethiopian-one-man-band-extraordinaire/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia-ethiopian-one-man-band-extraordinaire/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia</span><span class="invisible">-ethiopian-one-man-band-extraordinaire/</span></a></p><p>Hailu Mergia made his name in Walias Band and later went on to do some visionary solo recordings.</p><p>Hailu Mergia’s beautiful and surprising 1985 foray into traditional Ethiopian songs via analog synth, electric piano and accordion has been remastered.<br>[...]</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a></p>
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<p>Meklit Feat. Samuel Yirga – Kemekem (I Like Your Afro)</p><p>Meklit Hadero, known simply as Meklit, is an Ethiopian-born American singer and songwriter based in San Francisco, California. She is known for her soulful performing style, and for combining jazz, folk, and East African influences in her music.</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/meklit-samuel-yirga-kemekem/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/meklit-samuel-yirga-kemekem/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/meklit-samue</span><span class="invisible">l-yirga-kemekem/</span></a></p><p>“Azmari SoulJazz covering a traditional Ethiopian love song”</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/souljazz/" rel="tag">#SoulJazz</a></p>
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<p>Meklit - Abebayehosh<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_VyveqBXD4" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_VyveqBXD4"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Vyve</span><span class="invisible">qBXD4</span></a></p><p>"A song traditionally sung in September by young girls in Ethiopia to welcome the New Year."</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a></p>
<p>From the magazine L’Illustrazione Italiana, 1936 (or 39).<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Illustrazione_Italiana" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Illustrazione_Italiana"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Illu</span><span class="invisible">strazione_Italiana</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/freedom/" rel="tag">#Freedom</a> <a href="/tags/africa/" rel="tag">#Africa</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/eritrea/" rel="tag">#Eritrea</a></p>
<p>Kibrom Birhane – Here And There</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/kibrom-birhane-here-there/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/kibrom-birhane-here-there/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/kibrom-birha</span><span class="invisible">ne-here-there/</span></a></p><p>Is Kibrom Birhane the future of Ethiopian jazz?</p><p>He has a deep connection to the past and a vision for the future. His keyboard playing and improvisation reaches the deepest depths of the cosmos inside an unlimited musical universe.</p><p>Summer 2022 marks the release of Here And There, the new album by the critically acclaimed […]</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Hailu Mergia – Yene Mircha</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia-yene-mircha-choice/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia-yene-mircha-choice/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia</span><span class="invisible">-yene-mircha-choice/</span></a></p><p>Yene Mircha is an album by Hailu Mergia released in 2019.</p><p>It’s been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia’s sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60s starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70s golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to […]</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>
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<p>Tommy T Feat. Mahmoud Ahmed – Anchin አንቺን</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/tommyt-mahmoud-ahmed-anchin/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/tommyt-mahmoud-ahmed-anchin/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/tommyt-mahmo</span><span class="invisible">ud-ahmed-anchin/</span></a></p><p>Tommy T was Gogol Bordello‘s bass player (2006-2021) & was born and raised in Addis Ababa. “Anchin” translates to the feminine pronoun “you” in Amharic. The song features Mahmoud Ahmed, the Ethiopian crooner and was released in 2019.</p><p><a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/reggae/" rel="tag">#Reggae</a></p>
<p>Kuku Sebsibe</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/kuku-sebsibe/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/kuku-sebsibe/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/kuku-sebsibe</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p>Kuku Sebsibe is one of Ethiopia’s premier singers. She has performed with all the top bands of the 70s and 80s including Walias, Roha and Ibex, and is still performing today.</p><p>Available for the first time on record, these tracks are all from her first album originally released in 1982 on cassette only. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/oldafricanmusic/" rel="tag">#OldAfricanMusic</a></p>
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<p>Hailu Mergia & the Walias Band</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia-walias-band/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia-walias-band/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia</span><span class="invisible">-walias-band/</span></a></p><p>The first full length album by The Walias Band & Hailu Mergia, recorded and released in 1975 by the band’s own label. At Zula Club he and his mates formed Walias Band and did something no other band in Ethiopian nightclub history had done: they started buying their own musical instruments. Until then the club […]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/ethiojazz/" rel="tag">#Ethiojazz</a> <a href="/tags/ethiopia/" rel="tag">#Ethiopia</a> <a href="/tags/oldafricanmusic/" rel="tag">#OldAfricanMusic</a></p>
