Thanks. Someday I need to familiarize myself with the DC Ethiopian musician community that perform at various Washington DC area restaurants and write about them in the paper/website.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP Getatchew Mekurya
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 4 April 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Some mentions of him here on this thread:
Ethiopiques S/D
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 April 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/admas-sons-of-ethiopia?fbclid=IwAR0hS_x4YAs9D_JSPjkPNJyj5O5fxU8Yaks4-SJhzzxR_4g1YFn25gRSCHI
In 1984 , 4 Young Ethiopians in DC recorded an album that rearranged golden era sounds with their DC & elsewhere influences - highlife, disco, Brazilian Jazz, reggae. They added 80s synths and drum machines too
The album is now reissued
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 September 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
Oh, that’s my interview/ Article on them
Has anybody come across a source for the Ayalew Mesfin Complete Works on cd other than the label which is charging $26 for p+p?Hoped there might be something thisi side of the Atlantic that would therefore have much cheaper postage but is the lable keeping the cd version solely to themselves. Am seeing the lp version coming from other sources.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
Nope
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 January 2021 01:58 (three years ago) link