Ethiopia's own 80's purgatory

traditionally, Ethiopian music is based on a pentatonic modal system. ?. apparently it rivals jazz in its complexity.


yeah. so at some point in the 80's they said, "hey, let's replace the traditional instruments with electronic ones and dance to this shit!"


eventually came Neway Debebe, golden boy of Ethiopop in the 80's.


as you can see, videography goes to 1980's Ethiopia to die.