3521381540895

Ethiopian Hit Parade Volume 1

Various Artists

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Format: LP

Cat No: HS144VL

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Release Date:  09 December 2016

Label:  Heavenly Sweetness

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  3521381540895

Genres:  World Music  Africa  

  • Description

    2021 repress. After releasing around fifty 45 rpm singles and his first 33 rpm album (Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits AELP 10, re-released by Heavenly Sweetness HL092VL), Amha Esthèté set about compiling his best 45s on a series of now legendary albums (the originals are impossible to find) in 1972.

    An audacious, funky outlaw, a music lover and an entrepreneur in tune with the baby-boomer generation, young Amha Esthèté (he was only twenty-four when he launched his label) will be remembered as the instigator of a peaceful revolution thick with soul and rock'n'roll.

    The tracks on this first volume celebrate pioneers of modern Ethiopian groove such as Girma Bèyènè, Seyfu Yohannes, Tèshomè Meteku, Menelik Wèsnatchèw, Mulatu Astatq and Muluken Melesse, alongside tradi-modern singers representing Amhara (Essatu Tèssèmma) and Oromo culture, so rich and so long marginalised (Abbèbè Tèssèmma and Gèmètchu Itana).

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Alèmayèhu Eshèté & All Star Band - Addis Abèba Bété
      • 2. Girma Bèyènè - Sét Alamenem
      • 3. Gemetchu Itana - Shèmèrmari Tiya
      • 4. Sèyfu Yohannes & Soul Echos Band - Tezeta
      • 5. Abaynèh Dèdjèné - Yèbèrèha Lomi
      • 6. Tèshomè Meteku - Gara Ser Nèw Bétesh
      • 7. Menelik Wèsnatchèw & The Ashantis - Asha Gèdawo
      • 8. Muluqèn Mèllèssè & All Star Band - Hédètch Alu
      • 9. Mulatu Astatqé - Yèkèrmo Sèw
      • 10. Essatu Tèssèmma - Ayamaru Eshèté
      • 11. Abbèbè Tèssèmma - Ashasha Bèyèw