from the album "Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument" (ATFA006), out now.
LP/CD/Tape: bit.ly/11HYiSv
MP3: bit.ly/H2pffa
HAILU MERGIA w/ Tony Buck & Mike Majkowski
EUROPE DATES!

03.06. DE Berlin Urban Spree
05.06. PL Warsaw Pardon, To Tu
06.06. UK London Café OTO
07.06. FR Paris Villette Sonique

Hailu Mergia — Ambasel

Ethiopian Soul & Jazz Selecta!

’’A música do Oriente Médio sempre esteve presente na minha vida. Minha mãe, nascida em Aleppo, na Síria, colocava fitas K7 de música árabe quando eu era pequeno. Tive contato pela primeira vez com a música Etíope há uns 10 anos, quando um amigo colocou um CD gravado sem nome e sem capa para ouvir. Nesse momento, fiquei totalmente hipnotizado por essa música, com um dialeto semita
parecido com as músicas que minha mãe escutava. Era uma espécie de James Brown árabe cantando num andamento distinto com escalas misteriosas e poderosíssimos arranjos de metais.A partir desse dia, comecei a pesquisar e tentar descobrir de onde é que vinha esse tipo de música, até que um dia ouvi uma coletânea em vinil feita por um selo francês e ali estavam as respostas para minhas perguntas. Finalmente tinha encontrado a origem daquela música misteriosa. Vinha diretamente Etiópia!Após minha descoberta, nomes como Alèmayèhu Eshèté e Mulatu Astatkè passaram a fazer parte do meu set nos bailes de jazz, na época do Clube Berlin, na Barra-Funda, onde era residente. Mesmo não entendendo o que se fala na música, a forma como esses artistas cantam é muito expressiva. É essencial como repertório e bagagem cultural para o desenvolvimento da minha produção pessoal. Essa mix resume a minha pesquisa de músicas da Etiópia, um material bem específico selecionado especialmente em vinil para você viajar sem sair do lugar.’’


Ethiopian Soul & Jazz Selecta!

EAST AFRICAN FRQUENCIES (RIAFC)
1. ZANZIBAR CACOPHONIES & ROASTED SQUID. AN AMAZING UNPUBLISHED FIELD RECORDING OF A FAIR IN ZANZIBAR, RECORDED IN 1987 BY GERRIT KALSBEEK, WHERE THE MAIN SNACK WAS ROASTED SQUID ON A STICK. IT CAN BE FOUND, AMONG MANY OTHER AUDIO TREASURES AND WONDERS, AT LOLA RADIO BLOGSPOT.
2. NUBA MOUNTAIN ETHNO-FOLK BANGER. RECORDED OFF THE RADIO AT KOSH RADIO اذاعة كوش (ATTBARA, SUDAN). UNFORTUNATELY, THE ARTIST AND SONG TITLE ARE UNKNOWN. MANY THANKS TO KIDUS BERHANU (MITMITTA), NICOLAS SHEIKHOLESLAMI (ÇAYKH), AND MORTON ZAKARIA FOR THEIR HELP IN TRYING TO TRACK DOWN MORE INFORMATION. IF YOU RECOGNIZE THIS ARTIST LET US KNOW. 
3. REBABA MELODIES. UNKNOWN ARTIST & SONG TITLE. COURTESY OF RABABA MELODIES. 
4. REBABA JAM IN A LORRY. REBABA PERFORMED INSIDE A LORRY. ALTHOUGH THE ARTIST IS UNKNOWN, THIS IS BATAHIN MUSIC FROM THE BUTANA REGION OF EASTERN SUDAN. COURTESY OF OMAR EL-TAYEB HASSAN.
5. VILLAGE DISTORTION FEST – MAHMOUD ALI AL-HOUT. 
6. RIAFC BUMPER – FAHIMA ABDULLAH LOOP
7. WED AL-BALLAH HOWIDE (ود البله هويدي)
8. UNKNOWN ARTIST & SONG TITLE RECORDED OFF THE RADIO AT KOSH RADIO اذاعة كوش (ATTBARA, SUDAN).  
9. EXCERPT FROM AL SAQRIA CASSETTE (SUDAN) - COURTESY OF BRENDAN GARVEY. 
10. ALI ABAYAZID DAHABLI GICLO GAD (DJIBOUTI).
11. “NAS FI NAS” FROM THE SHAIGIYA SOUND OF SUDAN, ABU OBAIDA HASSAN & HIS TAMBOUR (OSTINATO RECORDS).
12. “DEBDABE LAKIBIGN” – BEZAWORK ASFAW (ETHIOPIA).
13. “WUBA” FROM TEWOLDE REDDA: ERITREA'S GUITAR PIONEER: SINGLES 1970-73. COMPILED BY MITMITTA (DOMINO SOUND). 
14. RADIO DANAB WANLAWEYN (SOMALIA).
15. KARAMA ZIJIRI – ZUHURA SWALEH & MORNING STAR (ZILIZOPENDWA – KENYA). COURTESY OF LOLA RADIO. 
16. JUMA SULTWANA – ZUHURA SWALEH & MORNING STAR (ZILIZOPENDWA – KENYA). COURTESY OF LOLA RADIO.

East African Frequencies (RIAFC091)

"Tche Belew" out now!
Boomkat: http://bit.ly/1u1OrFE
Rush Hour: http://bit.ly/1qYPxC5
Picadilly: http://bit.ly/1s4WPI8
Juno: http://bit.ly/Xc2RrZ

EUROPE TOUR DATES
08.05. DE Berlin XJAZZ Festival
25.05. NL Nijmegen Musicmeeting
26.05. NL Rotterdam Pantropical @ Worm
27.05. NL Amsterdam Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
28.05. FR Paris Instants Chavires
29.05. CH Düdingen Bad Bonn Kilbi
30.05. AT Wels Alter Schlachthof
01.06. CZ Praha Jazzdock
03.06. CH Luzern Südpol
05.06. HR Šibenik Deboto
06.06. UK London Field Day

 Sofia Jernberg & Hailu Mergia (Awesome Tapes From Africa, Oslo / Washington)
https://sofiajernbergsingercomposer.bandpage.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HailuMergiaOfficial

14.05. DE Eberswalde Jazz in E.
15.05. SE Stockholm Rönnels Antikvariat
16.05. SE Uddevalla Bohusläns Museum (afternoon show) Kontoret (evening show)

The acclaimed and highly sought-after LP by Hailu Mergia and
the Walias, Tche Belew, an album of instrumentals released in
1977, is perhaps the most seminal recording released in the
aftermath of the 1974 revolution. 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. 
Hailu Mergia, a keyboardist and arranger diligently working the
nightclub scene in Addis Ababa, formed the Walias in the early
1970’s with a core group of musicians assembled from prior
working bands. They played Mergia’s funk- and soul-informed
tunes, while cutting 45rpm singles with various vocalists.
While the Walias performed at top hotels and played the
presidential palace twice, their relationship with the Derg regime
was complex, evidenced by the removal of one song from the
record by government censors.
Decades later, Hailu Mergia was surprised to see the album
fetching more than $4,000 at online auctions (it helped that the
most popular of all Ethiopian tunes “Musicawi Silt” appeared on
the record). Now everyone has the chance to listen again—or
for the first time—to this timeless pillar of Ethiopian popular
music.

Pre-order

Hailu Mergia and the Walias — Eti Gual Blenai

For download, tracklist & more info on this/other Upfront mixes head here >> http://boilerroom.tv/upfront/019-sahel-sounds/

"What really ties the music together on the label is geography. It's also all music that for one reason or another, doesn't make it onto the world stage. One of my motivating factors is to showcase underrepresented genres and style. It's what drives any music digger - when you're listening to something and you think: "Why hasn't everyone heard this?""

-Christopher Kirkley

Upfront 019: Sahel Sounds

BOOMARM012 / SahelSounds032
HAMA - "Imidiwan N'assouf" - 10" VINYL
Purchase: boomarmnation.bandcamp.com/al...
Boomarm Nation and Sahel Sounds join forces yet again with this mighty sound-system mix of Tuareg synth maestro Hama's smash hit "Imidiwan N'assouf." A follow up to his stellar 2015 LP for Sahel Sounds, this single was recorded in Niamey, Niger and mixed at Boomarm Nation HQ in Portland, Oregon. Featuring a blissfully dubbed out version on the B-Side by Boomarm's Krucial Kuts (aka El Mahdy Jr. and Gulls). Released in a limited run of 10" vinyl housed in hand stamped recycled jackets, 550 copies for the world.

Hama - B - Imidiwan N'assouf - (Krucial Kuts DUB MIX)

A selection of lost sounds from a Somali archive, a teaser for the upcoming compilation "Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa." Out Now! 

Travel with us to the Al Curuuba hotel in Mogadishu, the dusty streets of Hargeisa, and the shores of the Gulf of Tadjoura in Djibouti. 

We hope you enjoy!

Get it here: https://ostinato-records.lnk.to/sweetasbrokendates

★★★★ 
-- The Guardian

"A mega mixtape of Somali classics."
-- BBC

"Sparkles with superior voices, superb musicians and both familiar & refreshingly new sounds." 
-- Wall Street Journal

"This record is a miracle. A legacy of the past that blurs the trauma of the present." 
-- Le Monde

"Perhaps the most beautiful music in the world, finally rediscovered."
-- Radio Nova Paris

Read/Listen more here: 

— BBC bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05btd5h
— Wall Street Journal on.wsj.com/2wTYAzQ 
— Al Jazeera http://bit.ly/2vfgc4g
— Yahoo / AFP https://yhoo.it/2w2ofFe
— OkayAfrica http://bit.ly/2uNaGsn | http://bit.ly/2f0kaLB
— Music in Africa http://bit.ly/2hfMx9n
— Quartz Africa http://bit.ly/2hfWTpC
— Radio Nova Paris http://bit.ly/2ubY3U7
— Thump Germany http://bit.ly/2vkS708

Watch the TED talk about the project: http://bit.ly/2vleB1g

BUY NOW!

Somali Sounds from Mogadishu to Djibouti (Selected by Nicolas Sheikholeslami & Vik Sohonie)

Two-hour tape-only dj set of new cassettes I juts got from Benin.
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Artist / Song / Album
Akodjenou Michel dit Amikpon et son groupe Folklorique Kpalogo de la Capitale / Gbegbé Akou / Amikpon
Gangbe Brass Band / Ye Mo No Ho / Gangbe
Sagbohan Danialou / Mietonou We / Homage aux Forces Armées Benoinoises
Sezenmon Allossee / Vi Gbema Kplon Nou Me / Vol 5
Akoha Ambroise / Crise Est La / Todema
Kiri Kanta / Gangangan / Ingen Mindassan
????
Jac’oho / Mandonoude / Houenoukpo
Allevi / Gnonnou Ho Wa / Toba Si Sle Vol 12
Mama Franco & Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou / Ya Bara 
Mama Franco & Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou / 
soun Binin Sara
Mama Franco & Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou / Dadon Gabou Yo Sabe 
Mama Franco / Dadon Ga Bouyo / Collection Beninpassion Vol 3
Sagbohan Danialou / Chaffeur / Musique Traditionnelle du Benin
Sagbohan Danialou / Zanglantangoun / Musique Traditionnelle du Benin
Stan Tohon & the Tchink System / Intox / Tchink Attack
Stan Tohon / Djohoundo / La Force Tranquille
H2Origines / Animé / Assouka
Stan Tohon / Africa Foot / La Force Tranquille
Agodou Y. Basile et son groupe Aloto Alome / Ojle We Nulepo / Oho Magan Den
Gbeze et son Group Tchingoumin d’Aklampa / Adjinakou Guelou 
T.P Orchestre Poly-Rythmo / David Djinto / Vol 4

Awesome Tapes From Africa: Benin Special (03.23.20)

Given the recent violent upheaval and ongoing strife in Mali, those of us deeply entranced by Malian culture, and, in particular, the immense hypnotic beauty of Malian music, have put together a selection of songs encompassing the diverse rhythmic grandeur from across the country.  This is a concerted global effort to showcase the most vital cornerstone of Malian culture in an attempt to preserve its reputation in the face of its current, grim reality. We hope our highlights of Mali's rich history of musical innovation will serve as a starting point for reclaiming an image tainted by unnecessary conflict. May peace and music return to Mali soon. 

Selectors: 

Philippe Noël (Canicuale Tropicale, Montreal) | www.caniculetropicale.com 

Adam Isbell (Racubah, London)  | https://soundcloud.com/the-man-from-timbuktu

Gregoire de Villanova (Oriki, Paris) | http://gregdevillanova.com/orikimusic | www.diasporarecords.com  

Rickard Masip (Tropical Treats, Stockholm) 

Hidehito Morimoto (Soul Bonanza, Tokyo) | www.soulbonanza.com

Vik Sohonie (Ostinato, East Indies) | www.ostinatorecords.com

Artwork by: 
Hidehito Morimoto & Vik Sohonie

Sound Equalizing by: 
Hidehito Morimoto

Original Photo: 
Joe Penney, Reuters

Le Monde à Change: A Tribute to Mali 1970 - 1991

LP/CD/Tape/Digital: https://hailumergia.bandcamp.com/album/hailu-mergia-his-classical-instrument-shemonmuanaye

Hailu Mergia — Shilela

In 1985, master accordionist and veteran bandleader, arranger and keyboardist released the Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument cassette. In a nostalgic effort to bring back the vintage accordion sound of his youth, Hailu gave Ethiopian music a sonic makeover. He was already celebrated for his work with the groundbreaking Addis Ababa ethio-jazz and funk outfit Walias Band. With imagination and a visionary sense of the self-contained possibilities of modern music, he captured the popular sounds of the past using the modern tools of the day. 

Hailu Mergia weaves Moog and DX7 synthesizers, Rhodes electric piano and rhythm machine into the rich harmonic layering of his accordion, creating hauntingly psychedelic, elegantly arranged instrumentals. These tunes draw from famous traditional and modern Ethiopian songs, as Hailu brilliantly matches lush Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo melodies with otherworldly flavors soaked in jazz and blues, synthesizing a futuristic landscape. He balances Ethiopian music's signature melodic shape with beautiful analog synth touches, floating upon clouds of hypnotically minimal rhythm tracks. 

Hailu Mergia was born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia in 1938 (1946 in the European calendar) to parents Tewabech Ezineh and Mergia Lulessa, who were of Amhara and Oromo ancestry, respectively. His mother took him to Aynemisa, close to Addis, where he grew up from age 3 until he was 10 when they moved to the capital Addis Ababa.

Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye

Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument – Shemonmuanaye

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