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Article: Amharic hits; Ethiopia's beats.(Sound recording review)
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- African Business
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- August 1, 2008
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A Town called Addis
By Dub Collossus
Real World
Cat: CDRW155
Direct from Addis Ababa, this album is the result of a project that pulls together an extraordinary but little known African musical heritage, a labour of love recording in a makeshift studio in downtown Addis Ababa and then a journey to the UK by some of Ethiopia's finest performers. It is the vision of Nick Page, also known as Dubulah, a composer, guitarist, bass player and programmer.
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Ethiopian music is considered one of Africa's hidden gem. At the end of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, Ethiopia was in the dying years of the ...