Hailu Mergia & The Walias - Tche Belew [1977]

During the 70's  there were recorded only three albums of instrumental music in Ethiopia.Two of them made by Mulatu Astatke.The third is this,a hidden gem!

 Walias Band  were an Ethiopian Jazz and funk band active from the early 1970s until the early 1990s. Formed by members of the Venus Band, Walias backed up many prominent singers with a hard polyrhythmic funk sound influenced by western artists like King Curtis, Junior Walker and Maceo Parker. In 1977 they recorded one of the few albums of Ethiopian instrumental music in collaboration with vibraphonist Mulatu Astatke, whose role as a bandleader and composer was also a major influence on Ethiopian popular music

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