More music from Ethiopia !
It has been on the agenda for a few months already, it's now out : the new reissue by Awesome Tapes From Africa is Hailu Mergia's "Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument". Originally a cassette tape, Awesome Tapes released it as vinyl, and also obivously as a tape.
For those who don't know, Hailu Mergia is the author of one of the most expensive (because rare) Ethiopian records ever. He's a former member of the legendary Walias band, and played with fellow legend Mulatu Astatke. And he plays the legendary synthetizer Yamaha DX7, which I addressed in a previous post on this blog.
The recent release got a nice review from Pitchfork. Nice treat, I want it.
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