MULUKEN MELLESSE - Muluken Mellesse With The Dahlak Band LP Hardcore and John McEntire

and John McEntire

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There is something about the bitter cold in Chicago that unites the city in January— the two weeks in 2024 that Horsegirl spent recording Phonetics On and On were some of the coldest days in Chicago that year

and boredom

another comes on” respectively – Yui’s electronics and Khorkhordina’s trumpet interweave beautifully with Humbert’s field recordings

MULUKEN MELLESSE - Muluken Mellesse With The Dahlak Band LP Hardcore and John McEntireThe vinyl LP at the heart of this thiopiques 31 [tracks 2 to 11] was one of the very last vinyl records ever released in Ethiopia. But above all it represents, we felt, the absolute masterpiece of the Ethiopian Groove the Swan Song of Swinging Addis. The album leaves a clear idea for posterity of the level of sophistication and mastery that modern Ethiopian music had achieved, before being crushed under the Stalino military heel of the Derg as the