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2LP Vinyl – 3507386

Wagram’s Rare Groove Collection walks all the world’s world music territories, or at least has done for several years now. Here the focus narrows to Ethiopia for its rare groove sources; this is a 20-track, double-vinyl survey of Addis Ababa’s 60s and 70s golden period, when the Amha and Philips Ethiopia labels were pressing a sound between ethiojazz, funk-adjacent arrangements, and brass-heavy soul, unlike anything else on the continent. Mulatu Astatke appears twice, including ‘Yegelle Tezeta’, while Mahmoud Ahmed bookends both discs; Getatchew Mekurya, Alemayehu Eshete, Tlahoun Gessesse, Girma Beyene with Akale Wube are all further names Ethiopiques devotees will clock immediately.