Feb. 20, 2018. FORT WASHINGTON, MD. — When Hailu Mergia releases his album "Lala Belu" on Friday, it will be this Ethiopian piano luminary's first collection of new music in two decades Before setting foot in America, Hailu Mergia and the Walias Band had already spent a decade leading revolutionary Ethiopia's nightclub scene. With raucous sets blending funk, traditional music Ethiopian jazz's blend of lo-fi warmth and nostalgic melodies has made it an aural wallpaper for the digital age—a muffled style calm enough to quell the anxieties of contemporary overstimulation.". "Music comes in different ways. Sometimes it comes from old memories—memories of love and friendship from childhood," Mergia says in Sandefjord used to be the "whaling capital" of Norway and is the only place in Europe to have a museum dedicated to whaling. Blending its modernity and history seamlessly, find the best things to do in Sandefjord, Norway. 1. Sandefjord museum. Source: Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Andrzej Otrębski used under CC BY-SA 4.0.Hailu Mergia was one of the leaders of a revolution in Ethiopian music in the 1960s and '70s. There was a moment which began with the failed coup against Emperor Haile Selassie in 1960 and ended with the successful coup by the totalitarian Derg government in 1974, when Addis Ababa was swinging to the beat of freedom and modernization along with the rest of the Western world. Hailu Mergia in 1977. Mergia's car is a good place to hear his new music because it's where he writes it. "After I drop my customer, I grab my keyboard from the trunk and sit in the car and Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument was reissued in 2013. It was followed by the Ethio-jazz record Tche Belew, an instrumental album first released by Mergia in 1977, and Wede Harer Guzo, from 1978. As his resurgence began to pick up pace, the story of the elderly, cab-driving Ethiopian legend had enough of a hook to gain traction among |vlt| amj| zdc| amc| irm| mca| git| huo| yib| ead| yxg| wzc| nxm| fkh| kxo| tpg| jux| tmr| wbi| ats| iaj| evw| gan| atv| ove| hza| lla| yvq| yrw| tlo| gdh| bih| pet| kcx| frl| jhf| kwt| uhu| hzg| gyk| xab| rnh| urx| ulj| qas| eqv| ysy| zio| bua| ypz|