Ayalew Mesfin - Wegene (My Countryman)Format : LP Label : Now Again Catalog # : NA 5193 Genre : Africa Ethiopia Mesfins recording career, captured in nearly two dozen 7 singles and numerous reel to reel tapes, shows the strata of the most fertile decade in Ethiopias 20th century recording industry, when records were pressed constantly by both independent upstarts and corporate behemoths, even if they were only distributed within the confines of this East African nation. Though Mesfin was

To celebrate this milestone

Session Victim then present their take on ‘Ask Anlari’

where no band is playing

A well put together club oriented tool kit put forth by a seasoned DJ himself

After a long career with the soul group The Savers

your soul is arrested from the moment the slow spell-binding mandolin ignites the hypnotic patterns recorded by the legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen

" and "Le Polaroid"

Elie Ferré

Fô Ou Tchimbé

A laidback

owing to the risk-averse nature of the labels at the time

Produced and co-written by Ed Longo