Various - HasabeAbsolutely killer compilation of Ethiopian R&B from the golden age of Ethiopian music. Classic performances by Lemma Demissew, Tlahoun Gessesse, Sefu Yohannes, Bahta Gebre Heywet, Teshome Meteku, Mahmoud Ahmed & Alemeyahu Eshete. All songs never reissued on vinyl before. A nonstop party record that we can recommend without any reservations. The 3rd LP in our continuing series of releases culled from the monumental Ethiopiques series.

and Kanaval) as well as travelling to the region to produce new recordings

drummer Ronald Bruner Jr

The live arrangements of these tracks are distinctly different than the recorded arrangements

Produced by Lee Hazlewood

I want to be a part of this generation

applying the same frantically eclectic

Bryant co-wrote a number of Ann Peebles‰۪ signature songs

Singles 2 has been designed to withstand obsessive flipping

After sending the nearly unmarked cassette to a few fanzines and selling the cassettes for $2 apiece (or even giving them away)

and that no amount of Neumann U87 microphones or expensive string arrangements could recreate their strange atmosphere

clocking in at 36 minutes

defiant but not angry