MULUKEN MELLESSE - Muluken Mellesse With The Dahlak Band LP Mug

MULUKEN MELLESSE - Muluken Mellesse With The Dahlak Band LP MugThe 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

To provide vocals for the tracks Reis called in Rick Froberg

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seemingly trading their love of classic rock for a disdain for music itself

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the Danish collective’s current line-cup is completed by Lil Lacy

and the vision remains transparent

a label based in Lausanne

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they quickly became key figures in the burgeoning DIY / anarcho-punk scene and toured Europe with contemporaries such as The Mob

they are remarkably attentive & responsive

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