from "Ethiopiques Volume 28: Ali Mohammed Birra, Great Oromo Music" (track 9): 2013 release by Buda Musique, with 3 unreleased bonus tracks of the 60s > http://bit.ly/15Mzhw3

the Dire Dawa guitar style: "In 1966, when Ali Birra went to an audition for Emperor Haile Selassie’s Imperial Body Guard Band, he was asked if he played any instruments. He replied that he played the oud but was then told they did not have an oud in Addis. Instead Ali was given a guitar, which he tuned like an oud because that was what he knew the best. Thus, the inimitable Ali Birra sound was born." - Andreas Hansen for Addis Rumble > bit.ly/14QJJiq

song orig: ALI MOHAMED BIRRA WITH THE ADU BIRRA BAND, Kaifa Records 1975 (TBC)

Si Jaalallee: Ali Birra (1975)

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Getachew Kassa, Yekereme Fikir

Gossaye Tesfaye & Mahmoud Ahmed    ADERA   HOT  NEW SONGS 20131)

Dagne_Walle_ Wey_Finkich Yecheneke Elet .m4a

Africa 45, number 4: http://www.mrbongo.com/products/alemayehu-eshete-tchero-adari-negn-mahmoud-ahmed-bemen-sebeb-letlash-7

A: Alemayehu Eshete - Tchero Adari Negn

Alemayehu Eshete aka the Ethiopian James Brown aka Abyssinian Elvis. struts his stuff on this funk bomb; tough breaks and changes, bluesy guitar lines and horns. Punctuated with Eshete’s JB-esque vocals.

Singer, writer and composer Eshete boasts one of the largest discography in Ethiopian music. Originally released on Amha 7” AE 240A in 1970, pressed in Lebanon due to restrictions imposed by the military government at the time, entitled ‘Chiro Adarie Negne’.

AA: Mahmoud Ahmed - Bemen Sebeb Letlash

Taken from the 1978 LP on on his own label Mahmoud Ahmed Records, LR MA 10. Ahmed is a very well known figure in Ethiopian music, who gained wider appeal thanks to Crammed Discs, Buda Music and the Ethiopiques series.

As sampled by Gaslamp Killer on ‘When I'm in Awe’ featuring GonjaSufi. Included on Cut Chemist’s ‘Sound Of The Police’ mixtape from 2010.

Mahmoud Ahmed - Bemen Sebeb Letlash

Tewodros Tadesse -- Emeye ETHIOPIA HD 2013

ፍቅር ምንጊዜም ያሸንፋል

Ephrem Tamiru ~ Endegebsu Zala

Raphael Anker, trumpet player from Geneva, one day decides to gather musicians for a live performance revisiting the golden age of Ethiopian music, the sound of Tlaloun Gessesse, Getatchew Mekurya, Mulatu Astatke, Mahmoud Ahmed and other legends. It's 2007, and the experience is so memorable that the one shot happening becomes a band: Imperial Tiger Orchestra, a nod to the Imperial Bodyguard Band from Addis-Abeba and to a classic line from Monthy Python's The Meaning of Life. A tiger - in Africa? ...Well it doesn't sound very likely...

Get it here:
http://bit.ly/Lv86Gd 

http://www.myspace.com/imperialtigerorchestra
http://mentalgroove.ch

Imperial Tiger Orchestra - Anchi Bale Game

Mahmoud Ahmed - Tizita Garedew (Ethiopian Music)

Tilahun Gessesse - Akam Feyuma (Ethiopian Music)

Rahel Yohannes - Menelik -- Dj Sami

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