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Ethiopiques 19
Ethiopiques (Buda Series), Mahmoud Ahmed
Ethiopiques 19
Genres: International Music, Pop
 
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Nearly 20 volumes on, the celebrated Ethiopiques series again spotlights Mahmoud Ahmed, this time as he sounded circa 1974. The era's warmly resonant, slightly remote sound environment just suited his powerful, shivery ten...  more »

     
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All Artists: Ethiopiques (Buda Series), Mahmoud Ahmed
Title: Ethiopiques 19
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Buda Musique
Release Date: 5/10/2005
Genres: International Music, Pop
Style: Africa
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 3341348601069, 334134860101, 3700368401927

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Nearly 20 volumes on, the celebrated Ethiopiques series again spotlights Mahmoud Ahmed, this time as he sounded circa 1974. The era's warmly resonant, slightly remote sound environment just suited his powerful, shivery tenor. His voice scales the dizzy peaks and plunging abysses of funked-up old-school Amharic rhythms, raising pulse-rates and goose bumps while nimbly dodging lumbering R&B horn riffs like a dancer in heavy traffic. The nine selections are crowned by an extended version of Tezeta, in which the singer's soulful wails are stalked by a sinuous, moody bass, psychedelic organ and a sax on a crying jag. Ahmed's many singles helped define "Swinging Addis (Ababa)", when the Ethiopian capital enjoyed a halcyon interval of freewheeling artistic modernity and hip joie de vivre that was ended by a brutally repressive military coup. Fortunately, many seminal recordings of that heady vintage have survived--producer/historian Francis Falceto and his amiable collaborators at the Buda label deserve universal admiration and respect for making them available once more. --Christina Roden

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Ethio groove
M. Evans | Scranton, Pa USA | 07/09/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This music is addicting. The good news is that there are currently 21 volumes of Ethiopiques available. Three are solely Mahmoud Ahmed and he appears on the various artist volumes 1,3&8. This is soul music. It is funky with a middle eastern accent. Swelling organ and tasteful horns makes one nostalgic for a lost era that most of us never knew. This music from Ethiopia's "Golden Age" is worth more than a gold mine."