LA-005 Ali Birra - Ammalele Little Axe Records

LA-005 Ali Birra - Ammalele Little Axe RecordsWith the western world's recent access to the Ethiopian music of the 1970's, the focus has been almost solely on the Amhara music of Addis Ababa. The Oromo people, the largest ethnic group, hasn't been equally represented. Ali Birra, the biggest Oromo star and a hero to his people was so beloved that he did break into the Amhara dominated record market. Learning how to play the guitar using the tuning for an oud, the sound is as much Arabic as

or a physicality even

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from which the present album is derived

Comes with liner notes and translations of the lyrics from Oromo to English

” is drawn from the time she spent living with her twin sister overlooking the ocean in Coos Bay

Never commercially released

became the centre of the immensely popular style of music known as qaraami

including Abner's first LP

Minimal and raw

moody and dramatic

Green Tea Leaf Salad) and presented here for the first time on vinyl

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