Global A Go-Go presents:
Hailu & Moges
The Walias Band was one of Ethiopian music’s pioneers: they were the first independent band not financially tied to a hotel, club or theater; they released the country’s first fully instrumental albums on their own label; they owned their own equipment, recording studio and record store. And Walias music was so ubiquitous on Ethiopian media in the late 1970s that some people just knew them as “that music from TV.”
The band broke up after they toured the USA in 1981, as four of their members including leader Hailu Mergia and saxophonist Moges Habte went into exile in the large Washington DC Ethiopian diaspora community. Hailu and Moges both still live in suburban Maryland, and they remain active in music. This week on Global A Go-Go, you’ll hear the Walias Band from back in the day, including a new reissue of one of those early instrumental albums, and you’ll also hear what Hailu and Moges are up to these days.
Also this week (Monday June 21, 3:00-5:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards on the wrir.org archive player, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site): new Anatolian rock from Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek, new cumbia from Frente Cumbiero and Mitchum Yacoub, new rumba from Okute and not-at-all new South African township soul and bump jive circa 1975.
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Show Archive
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”
from Global a Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
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Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek, “Hop Cerkez”
from Dost 1 - EP
Bongo Joe - 2021
Turkey-Germany-France-England UK
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Roberto Lopez Afro-Colombian Jazz Orchestra, “El Pescador”
from Azul
Curura Musique - 2012
Colombia-Canada
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Los de Abajo, “Los Lunáticos (El Manicomios Está En Manos De Los Locos)”
from LDA V The Lunatics
Real World Records - 2005
Mexico
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Deep Rumba, “Sunshine of Your Love”
from This Night Becomes a Rumba
American Clave - 1998
USA-Puerto Rico USA-Cuba-Panama
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Ned Sublette, “Not Fade Away (feat Los Munequitos De Matanzas)”
from Cowboy Rumba
Palm Pictures - 1999
USA-Cuba
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Hailu Mergia & The Walias, “Nefas New Zemedie”
from Tezeta
Awesome Tapes From Africa - 1975
Ethiopia
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Hailu Mergia & The Walias, “Musicawi Silt”
from Tche Belew
Awesome Tapes From Africa - 1977
Ethiopia
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Alemayehu Borobor, “Yeshebelewa”
from Ernesto Chahoud Presents Taitu – Soul-Fuelled Stompers from 1960s – 1970s Ethiopia
BBE Africa - 1973
Ethiopia
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Feedel Band, “Araya's Mood”
from Ethiopian Ocean
The Music Consultancy (Tmc) Records - 2014
Ethiopia-USA
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Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go June 21st, 2021
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