Girma Bèyènè & Akalé Wubé - Mistakes On Purposes (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, m3u, d. booklet | 424 MB
Label: Buda Musique – 860303 | Tracks: 14 | Time: 66:33 min
Ethnic Jazz, Afrobeat, Funk, World Fusion
Girma Bèyènè disappeared from the Addis Abeba music scene in 1981. Miraculously, he was invited by the exiled producer Amha Eshèté to tour the US with the Wallias Band and three singers (Mahmoud Ahmed, Gétatchèw Kassa and Wubishet Fisseha). Girma chose to never return back to the military-Stalianian paradise of Ethiopian dictator Menguistou. Another six musicians followed in his steps. The freshly exiled quickly realised that the Ethiopian community in the US was too small and restrained to offer them enough work to get by as full time musicians. What followed was a chaotic life full of odd jobs which increasingly left less and less time for music.