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Addis Ababa sung by a late-sixties Ethio-jazz dance band. Vibraphone, horns and masinko carry a city that runs six hours off your clock and seven years off your calendar, stands in an imported Australian gum forest, and keeps thirteen months of sunshine with three of them under rain. The bridge goes quiet for the tapes that survived the curfew.
Thirteen Months Of Sunshine
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Style
Ethio-jazz as played by a late-sixties Addis Ababa dance band at ninety-four BPM; vibraphone lead doubled by tenor and baritone sax, dusty combo organ, muted trumpet stabs and bass walking in a loping six-eight over kit and kebero, masinko and krar threaded between horn answers, male baritone and bright female lead holding Amharic vowels, melody staying in Ethiopian pentatonic qenet throughout.