MAHMOUD AHMED - Ere Mela Mela LP
Finally available again! Exclusive vinyl edition from the legendary "Ethiopiques" series (BUDA MUSIQUE) on HEAVENLY SWEETNESS! 180-gram vinyl, sturdy cardboard cover with the original artwork, mastered from the original tapes. "Ere Mela Mela" includes the album released in 1975 by the well-known Ethiopian singer MAHMOUD AHMED with two bonus tracks from 1978. Born in 1941, AHMED initially worked as a shoeshine boy on the streets of Addis Ababa, but by a stroke of luck he got the job as singer of the IMPERIAL BODY GUARD BAND in the 1960s and quickly became a real star whose reputation as one of the best voices on the continent eventually spread to the western world and even earned him a BBC WORLD MUSIC AWARD in 2007. AHMED's minor-key Afro-Soul is an ideal example of a cross-fertilization of Eastern and Western musical styles and also incorporates some of the Latin American influences that his compatriot MULATU ASTATKE had already "imported" in the 1960s.
Finally available again! Exclusive vinyl edition from the legendary "Ethiopiques" series (BUDA MUSIQUE) on HEAVENLY SWEETNESS! 180-gram vinyl, sturdy cardboard cover with the original artwork, mastered from the original tapes. "Ere Mela Mela" includes the album released in 1975 by the well-known Ethiopian singer MAHMOUD AHMED with two bonus tracks from 1978. Born in 1941, AHMED initially worked as a shoeshine boy on the streets of Addis Ababa, but by a stroke of luck he got the job as singer of the IMPERIAL BODY GUARD BAND in the 1960s and quickly became a real star whose reputation as one of the best voices on the continent eventually spread to the western world and even earned him a BBC WORLD MUSIC AWARD in 2007. AHMED's minor-key Afro-Soul is an ideal example of a cross-fertilization of Eastern and Western musical styles and also incorporates some of the Latin American influences that his compatriot MULATU ASTATKE had already "imported" in the 1960s.
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Finally available again! Exclusive vinyl edition from the legendary "Ethiopiques" series (BUDA MUSIQUE) on HEAVENLY SWEETNESS! 180-gram vinyl, sturdy cardboard cover with the original artwork, mastered from the original tapes. "Ere Mela Mela" includes the album released in 1975 by the well-known Ethiopian singer MAHMOUD AHMED with two bonus tracks from 1978. Born in 1941, AHMED initially worked as a shoeshine boy on the streets of Addis Ababa, but by a stroke of luck he got the job as singer of the IMPERIAL BODY GUARD BAND in the 1960s and quickly became a real star whose reputation as one of the best voices on the continent eventually spread to the western world and even earned him a BBC WORLD MUSIC AWARD in 2007. AHMED's minor-key Afro-Soul is an ideal example of a cross-fertilization of Eastern and Western musical styles and also incorporates some of the Latin American influences that his compatriot MULATU ASTATKE had already "imported" in the 1960s.
