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Ibex Band
Stereo Instrumental Music
(Muzikawi)
★★★★
RELEASED by Paris-based record label Buda Musique between 1998 and 2017, the Ethiopiques album series did a great job of making the wider world aware of Ethiopia’s rich musical culture, especially ethno-jazz artists of the 1960s and 1970s.
However, they never released this fabulous 1976 record Stereo Instrumental Music — it’s only just been rediscovered.
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