EAN: 3760159750429 By inviting other musicians to play on a few tracks, the trio becomes a quartet with Fabien Duscombs from Le Tigre des Platanes on drums and sometimes a quintet with Mathieu Werchowski on violin. The warmth of the double bass and the depth of the acoustic bass complement Etenesh's deep voice, while the bow also recalls the messenqo, the traditional...

EAN: 3341348604114 This re-release of one of the last vinyl records released in Ethiopia, but more than that it is the absolute masterpiece of Ethiopian Groove - and its swansong. It leaves posterity with a clear idea of the level of sophistication and mastery that modern Ethiopian music had reached before it was crushed under the military Stalinist boot of the Derg - the...

EAN: 3341348604121 This is Ethiopia in the mid-1950s and early 1960s, on the eve of the blossoming, or rather the explosion, of Swinging Addis. Rock'n'roll, rhythm and blues, soul and twist had not yet burst onto the scene, and the atmosphere was still steeped in the post-war big band era, with Glenn Miller's In the Mood enduring as a global anthem on a par with the Latin...