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KAK, ATA - OBAA SIMAReissue of a 1994 album. The music is a noteworthy amalgam of highlife, Twi-language rap, funk, hip-hop and electronica, presented with the passion of a Prince record and the DIY-bedroom-recording lo-fi charm of early Chicago house music. Vinyl version. |
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KAKRABA, SK - SONGS OF PAAPIEYESK Kakraba is a master of the gyil, a Ghanaian xylophone made of 14 wooden slats strung across calabash gourd resonators. The buzzy rattle emitted with each note comes from the silk walls of spiders' egg sacs stretched across holes in the gourds.. |
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KAKRABA, SK - SONGS OF PAAPIEYESK Kakraba is a master of the gyil, a Ghanaian xylophone made of 14 wooden slats strung across calabash gourd resonators. The buzzy rattle emitted with each note comes from the silk walls of spiders' egg sacs stretched across holes in the gourds.. |
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KHAOLI, OM ALEC - SAY YOU LOVE MEA reissue of 'Say You Love Me', the first solo-release by South Africa's Om Alec Khaoli, originally from 1985. Due to his days with groundbreaking bands such as the Beaters, Harari and Umoja, Khaoli became a respected rock, pop and soul musician in his native country. This ... read more » |
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KOITE, SOURAKATA - EN HOLLANDESenegalese kora master Sourakata Koite began music from pretty much day one. "All the Koite are musicians!," he says. Indeed he is a member of a family of djeli (or griot in French), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians in West Africa. After ... read more » |
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KOITE, SOURAKATA - EN HOLLANDESenegalese kora master Sourakata Koite began music from pretty much day one. "All the Koite are musicians!," he says. Indeed he is a member of a family of djeli (or griot in French), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians in West Africa. After ... read more » |
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KONAN, ANTOINETTE - ANTOINETTE KONANIt makes sense that Antoinette Konan's eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast's Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring electrified ... read more » |
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KONAN, ANTOINETTE - ANTOINETTE KONANIt makes sense that Antoinette Konan's eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast's Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring electrified ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - HAILU MERGIA & HIS CLASSICAL INSTRUMENT'SHEMONMUANAYE'. Adding a Moog synthesizer, Rhodes electric piano and a rhythm machine to the harmonic layering of his accordion, he creates hauntingly psychedelic instrumentals. These songs draw from various traditional and modern Ethiopian songs, as Hailu matches Amhara, ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - HAILU MERGIA & HIS CLASSICAL INSTRUMENT (2LP)'SHEMONMUANAYE'. - Adding a Moog synthesizer, Rhodes electric piano and a rhythm machine to the harmonic layering of his accordion, he creates hauntingly psychedelic instrumentals. These songs draw from various traditional and modern Ethiopian songs, as Hailu matches ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - LALA BELUThe Ethiopian keyboard and accordion maestro's first new album since his recent career resurgence. Beginning in 2013 with the reissue of his dreamy 'Hailu Mergia and His Classical Instrument' followed by the enormous success of his seminal Ethio-jazz masterpiece 'Tche ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - LALA BELUThe Ethiopian keyboard and accordion maestro's first new album since his recent career resurgence. Beginning in 2013 with the reissue of his dreamy 'Hailu Mergia and His Classical Instrument' followed by the enormous success of his seminal Ethio-jazz masterpiece 'Tche ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - LALA BELUThe Ethiopian keyboard and accordion maestro's first new album since his recent career resurgence. Beginning in 2013 with the reissue of his dreamy 'Hailu Mergia and His Classical Instrument' followed by the enormous success of his seminal Ethio-jazz masterpiece 'Tche ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - PIONEER WORKS SWING (LIVE)It's been a little over ten years since Hailu Mergia reemerged on the international music scene. Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began performing live again after ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - PIONEER WORKS SWING (LIVE)It's been a little over ten years since Hailu Mergia reemerged on the international music scene. Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began performing live again after ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - PIONEER WORKS SWING (LIVE)It's been a little over ten years since Hailu Mergia reemerged on the international music scene. Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began performing live again after ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - YENE MIRCHA'Yene Mircha' (my choice in Amharic) encapsulates many of the things that make the keyboardist, accordionist and composer-arranger remarkable - elements that have persisted to maintain his vitality all these years, through the ebb and flow of his career. The rock solid trio ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - YENE MIRCHA'Yene Mircha' (my choice in Amharic) encapsulates many of the things that make the keyboardist, accordionist and composer-arranger remarkable - elements that have persisted to maintain his vitality all these years, through the ebb and flow of his career. The rock solid trio ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU - YENE MIRCHA'Yene Mircha' (my choice in Amharic) encapsulates many of the things that make the keyboardist, accordionist and composer-arranger remarkable - elements that have persisted to maintain his vitality all these years, through the ebb and flow of his career. The rock solid trio ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU -& DAHLAK BAND- - WEDE HARER GUZOHailu Mergia released Wede Harer Guzo ("Journey to Harer", a city in eastern Ethiopia) with Sheba Music Shop. His cassette copy is the only known source we could find. Decades later, the recordings have been restored and cleaned up from layers of hiss, flutter and ... read more » |
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MERGIA, HAILU -& DAHLAK BAND- - WEDE HARER GUZURecorded in 1978 in Addis Abebeba, Ethiopia, then released on tape and recently rediscovered, this is the album's first ever CD-edition. The album captures the inimitable vibe of this Ethiopian keyboard and accordion maestro, backed by a great band. |
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MERGIA, HAILU -& DAHLAK BAND- - WEDE HARER GUZU (2LP)Recorded in 1978 in Addis Abebeba, Ethiopia, then released on tape and recently rediscovered, this is the album's first ever edition on vinyl. The album captures the inimitable vibe of this Ethiopian keyboard and accordion maestro, backed by a great band. |
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MERGIA, HAILU -& THE WALIAS BAND- - TCHE BELEWReissue of exciting instrumentals from 1977. The story of the Walias band is a critical chapter in Ethiopian popular music, taking place during a period of music industry flux and political complexity in the country. |
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MERGIA, HAILU -& THE WALIAS BAND- - TCHE BELEWReissue of exciting instrumentals from 1977. The story of the Walias band is a critical chapter in Ethiopian popular music, taking place during a period of music industry flux and political complexity in the country.. |
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MERGIA, HAILU -& THE WALIAS BAND- - TEZETAUnknown recording outside Ethiopia which documents Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band's legendary early period. Beautifully-rendered instrumentals of classic Ethiopian standards, 'Tezeta' is the follow-up reissue of the hugely popular seminal Ethiopian instrumentals LP ... read more » |
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