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Saturday, August 16, 2008

WNYC's New Sounds: Swinging Addis


"Study your history, whoever don't I pity the fool like Mr. T"
Wise words indeed. John Schaefer hosts a great introduction to the strangely familiar foreign sounds of Ethiopian & Eritrean jazz/funk/psychedelic/pop collected in the ongoing Ethiopiques music series. Interspersed throughout the episode are selections from the series.

Listen here.

For anyone interested in hearing a contemporary influence of these sounds should check out the recent Stones Throw subsidiary release by Karl Hector & the Malcouns via Now Again Records.

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