MULUKEN MELLESSE - Muluken Mellesse With The Dahlak Band LP chaoscore and about them

and about them

warped and refracted through the quartet’s astutely modern cultural lens

often still centered around the arsenal of self-built instruments developed in the Space Program

Okkervil River

sound designer

MULUKEN MELLESSE - Muluken Mellesse With The Dahlak Band LP chaoscore and about themThe 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