Ililta! New Ethiopian Dance Music, by Various Artists

Ililta! New Ethiopian Dance Music

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Cosmographer Featuring über-charismatic singing, colorful, rich instrumentation and one mighty new groove stacked upon another, this compilation is a MUST. Favorite track: Awdamet.

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1.	Chalachew Ashenafi - Munit 06:29	buy track
2.	Asfaw Tsegè - Ye Salame 05:47	buy track
3.	Zuryash Abeye - Arada 08:18	buy track
4.	Chalachew Ashenafi - Awdamet 04:59	buy track
5.	Chalachew Ashenafi - Ye Gonder Lidj Netch 06:09	buy track
6.	Tesfay Wube - Wube Abeba 05:44	buy track
7.	Etenesh Girma - Ababille 05:11	buy track
8.	Mohammed "Jimmy" Mohammed, Berhanu Aweke + Wedere Tadesse - Desse Lay 04:04	buy track
9.	Habtu Demse - Amamesso 04:19	buy track
10.	Chalachew Ashenafi - Memyew 07:37	buy track
11.	Asfaw Tsegè, Etenesh Girma, Debesay Zegeye + Habtu Demse - Eyoha 08:21	buy track

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Most people are familiar with the Ethiopian music of the "golden seventies". The great CD series of "Ethiopiques" focuses on this remarkable period of truly amazing and rich music. The era of the big brass bands came to an end in the period of the "Derg", the military government in Ethiopia from 1975 till 1991. After that, the scene seemed confused.
Many great musicians were forced into exile or passed away. The horns mostly disappeared and were replaced by cheap keyboards everywhere. Awful bombastic overproduced "plastic" pop-productions flooded the market. Synthesisers, vocoders, drum machines and hasty productions that all sound alike.
But in the last few years something new is emerging. Young producers have started combining traditional rhythms and strong dance beat production. The result is very original, uplifting and very danceable music. The gurage, wollo, gondar, oromo and other traditional rhythms work wonders for this new dance music. And the Ethiopian youth loves it. It can be heard not only in the hip areas like Bole, but all over Addis and other Ethiopian urban areas. Blasting from restaurants, taxis, coffeeplaces, grocerystores and Addis' giant market, the Mercato.
The "Ililta" CD is a compilation of this new Ethiopian dance music, recorded with a new generation of singers over the last decade. A cross-selection of the production work of Mesele Asmamaw and some of his close colleagues.
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released January 24, 2017

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