This new collaboration started by Dutch/Swiss baritone saxophonist Jeroen Visser and Ethiopian dancer and cultural ambassador Melaku Belay features nine musicians and dancers. Their album “GOJO” pays tribute to the golden age of the Ethio-jazz in many refreshing ways. Where the old recordings were played with western instruments, this release leans on traditional instruments...

The Atse Tewodros Project ensemble is a collective of Italian and traditional Ethiopian musicians born from an idea of the Italian-Ethiopian leader Gabriella Ghermandi. It is a unique project in that it is the only Italo-Ethiopian band in existence. In 2022 Atse Tewodros Project released its second recording project 'Maqeda', the Ethiopian name for the Queen of Sheba, is...

From Mali to Benin and all the way to the Caribbean and New Orleans, backed by a dazzling orchestra of strings, skins and brass, the voice of a teenage genius explores the creole experience. For this pan-African journey between soul and Sahelian blues, Kala Jula has gone through a renewal, drinking from the sources of Benin's voodoo as much as from those of the jeliya, the...

Combining the unfathomable Ethiopian musical tradition with a contemporary and libertarian reinterpretation, Ukandanz continues its work with this new opus. With as much subtlety the band delivers a new version of an Ethiopian crunch. The fundamental polyrhythms explode in contact with progressive rock, punk and the sonic experimentation of this pack welded together. The...