The Liberators – Rags To Riches
Afrobeat/AfroFunk from Australia.
https://www.didiermary.fr/the-liberators-rags-to-riches/
#Afrobeat #Australia #Blaxploitation #English #EthioJazz #Funk #Jazz #NSFW
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Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience – Kulun Mankwaleshi
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Mulatu Astatke blends his Ethio-jazz with the Melbourne-based group Black Jesus Experience in this extract from their album “To Know Without Knowing” in 2020.
Kulun Mankwaleshi is the arrangement of a traditional Ethiopian wedding song in the uniquely Ethiopian anchi-hoye scale. Both polyrhythmic and polymetric [...]
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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (RIP)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou/
Since the 80s, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (born in Addis Ababa in 1923) had been living quietly in a small cell of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem (the Debre Genet or “Sanctuary of Paradise” monastery on Ethiopia Street), between God and her piano, after a life shaped by exile, both political and self imposed. […]
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Sharhabil Ahmed – Argos Farfish / Zulum Aldunya
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sharhabil-ahmed-argos-farfish-zulum-aldunya/
Sharhabil Ahmed, also known as the “King of Sudanese Jazz,” was born in 1935 and is the founding father of the Sudanese Jazz scene. His aim was to modernize Sudanese music by bringing it together with western influences and instrumentation. Contemporary Sudanese music draws a lot of influences both from [...]
#60smusic #AfroFunk #Ethiojazz #Jazz #Soundcloud #Sudan #OldAfricanMusic
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Tèsfa-Maryam Kidané – Heywèté
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tesfa-maryam-kidane-heywete/
The saxophonist Tèsfa-Maryam Kidané was one of the most remarkable stylists of his generation and between 1965 and 1972 emerged as a brilliant, inspired player. Tesfa Mariam got his start with the Police Orchestra in Asmara. After his stints with the second Ras Band & The All Star Band. He left Ethiopia to study at […]
#70smusic #Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #Instrumental #MulatuAstatké #AfroJazz
Admas – Sons of Ethiopia
https://amf.didiermary.fr/admas-sons-ethiopia/
Sons of Ethiopia is a fascinating piece of the Ethiopian musical puzzle. Emerging from the community of Ethiopian exiles who had been scattered to the winds by the brutality of the Derg – the military dictatorship that had deposed Haile Selassie – the album was the sound of a new generation.
“Lost” album from 1984, re-released […]
#AfroFunk #Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #FullAlbum #Instrumental #OldAfricanMusic
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Girma Bèyènè & Akalé Wubé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/girma-beyene-akale-wube/
“Mistakes on Purpose” is an album released in 2017, where Girma Bèyènè, singer, arranger, and a living legend of Ethiopian Pop, meets one of the best Western bands (from France) whose repertoire is inspired by Ethio-jazz.
Girma Bèyènè disappeared from the Addis Abeba music scene in 1981. Miraculously, he was invited by the exiled producer […]
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Mulatu Plays Mulatu
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-plays-mulatu/
“Mulatu Plays Mulatu” is the first major studio album in over 10 years from the father of EthioJazz, Mulatu Astatke, featuring masterful new arrangements of some of his classic compositions. It was released in 2025. […]
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Mulatu Astatke – Sketches of Ethiopia
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-sketches-ethiopia/
Sketches of Ethiopia is the first internationally distributed studio album by Ethiopian musician, composer, and arranger Mulatu Astatke, released in 2013.
The album’s closing track is “Surma”, a collaboration with the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, who co-wrote the song with Astatke.
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The Story of Ethio Jazz
https://amf.didiermary.fr/story-ethio-jazz-mulatu-astatke/
Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached a [...]
#60smusic #70smusic #Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #Jazz #MulatuAstatké
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Nalbandian The Ethiopian
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nalbandian-ethiopian-ethiopiques-32/
“Nalbandian The Ethiopian, Either/Orchestra and Guests” is the second album (Ethiopiques 32) coming out from the “relaunch” of the Ethiopiques series, released last december. It follows “Muluken Mellesse With The Dahlak Band” (Ethiopiques 31).
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Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience – Cradle Of Humanity
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-black-jesus-experience-cradle-humanity/
Cradle Of Humanity features Mulatu Astatke, the Father Of Ethiojazz, in collaboration with Australian musical collective Black Jesus Experience.
Cradle Of Humanity is the funkified product of seven years of performances together around the world, brought to fruition in studios in [...]
#Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #FullAlbum #Jazz #MulatuAstatké #AfroJazz
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Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-black-jesus-experience-to-know-without-knowing/
The legendary Mulatu Astatke blends his Ethio-jazz with the Melbourne-based group Black Jesus Experience‘s grooves on the 9-track album “To Know Without Knowing” in 2020.
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Hailu Mergia & the Walias Band
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The first full length album by The Walias Band & Hailu Mergia, recorded and released in 1975 by the band’s own label.
At Zula Club he and his mates formed Walias Band and did something no other band in Ethiopian nightclub history had done: they started buying their own musical instruments. Until then the club […]
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The Shaolin Afronauts – Follow The Path
https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-shaolin-afronauts-follow-the-path/
The driving force of The Shaolin Afronauts is Ross McHenry, composer, bandleader, producer and bassist based in Adelaide.
2011’s debut album “Flight Of The Ancients” was a critical and commercial success story. The follow up “Quest Under Capricorn” further cemented the bands reputation for forging their own very particular sound.
Follow The Path (2014) [...]
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ሙሉቀን፡መለሰ Mulukèn Mellèssè Muluqän Mälläsä
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The Ethiopiques series is back, after almost 7 years, with 2 albums released in December 2025. The first one is “Muluken Mellesse With The Dahlak Band” (Ethiopiques 31).
[…] the artist’s talent made itself known very early indeed, because he got his start in 1966-67, at the age of 13 […]
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