The Very Best Of Ethiopiques's lyrics & chords

The evocative, elusive music of 70s Ethiopia – the last great undiscovered music from Africa – as championed by everyone from Elvis Costello to Robert Plant, Tom Waits to Patti Smith, Brain Eno to Jamie Cullum and finally now ready to crossover to the mainstream through this Manteca label best of. In the dying years of Emperor Haile Sellaisse I and the first stirrings of a brutal military dictatorship the soul groups, jazz combos and big bands of Ethiopia played like never before or since. These 2CDs contain some of the very best tracks f...read more