ASELEFECH ASHINE & GETENESH KEBRET - ሸገኔዎች (Beauties) LP Punk Karl-Marx-Stadt on a sunny late

Karl-Marx-Stadt on a sunny late autumn day: Jens Ausderwasch

Clocking in at a brisk 25 minutes

Third Coast Percussion

Electroacoustic explorer Erik Enocksson consolidates his raging industrial noise and choral ambient urges with a manacled grasp of quiet/loud dynamics and mournful melancholy

ASELEFECH ASHINE & GETENESH KEBRET - ሸገኔዎች (Beauties) LP Punk Karl-Marx-Stadt on a sunny lateA lost classic of the Ethiopian Golden Age, reissued in full for the first time! On this 1976 gem of a record, Aselefech Ashine and Getenesh Kebrets voices intertwine in close harmony, the two beauties singing in duet across 10 gorgeous tracks. The Army Band, which backed greats like Tlahoun Gesesse and Mahmoud Ahmed, brings Mulatu esque minor key piano runs, interlocking percussion, and rock steady basslines. Arranger Teshome Sisays flute winds