( Swinging Addis )

In the sixties there was a Swinging Addis, just as there was a swinging London.
In Ethiopia, as in Europe or the US, the first generations born after the war made their noisy, colourful breakthrough onto the scene. A veritable cultural revolution rather than a simple generational conflict. With music as its common denominator. This volume of Ethiopiques aims to collect the clearest examples of soul, R'n'B and even twist in the recordings of the Ethiopian 'sixties'. The quintessence of the most outrageously cosmopolitan styles - yet so firmly anchored in the local soul.