Pour a tall cold one, sit back and relax with this sweet track by Moges Habte , formerly of the Wallias Band in Ethiopia. The tune is "...

As I explained in "Digital Ethiopia Pt. 1, " the last decade and a half have seen an explosion of Ethiopian musical releases recor...

I mentioned to someone recently that with two teenagers headed off to college soon I just can't afford to plop down $17-20 for a CD anym...

Thanx and a tip of the Hatlo Hat to Andy Healey , who alerted us to the existence of this incredible, mind-blowing sample of Igbo Roots musi...

I wrote in my first posting that through Likembe I sought to educate but also hoped to be educated. The response to the post Somali Myster...

( Note: This post was updated considerably on November 29, 2007. The MP3s were replaced with new stereo versions on November 30, 2007.) I...

I just came across this - real Ethiopian music the way it was meant to be heard, played on real musical instruments and not cheap synthesize...

I've recently learned that several years ago the Igbo traditional musician Area Scatter was killed in an auto accident. Area was a p...

Researching that last post has got me worked up, and I've been listening to Angolan music pretty much non-stop for the last few days. S...