Sub Rosa release some of the most intriguing music around, like experimental music from Iran to folk-dub collaborations between scene giants like M. J. (Mick) Harris and Martyn Bates, but this release is something altogether different. Here are some notes from Sub Rosa’s Bandcamp site:
“Ethiopian Musics 1971 is one of those albums where each musical moment is pure, intoxicating gold, while also being greater through the sum of its parts. There are the many songs, forming a rich tapestry of remarkable range across the respective two LPs/CDs (moments that wondrously flirt with sonic abstraction; hypnotic rhythms; pulsing chant; melodies that, in structural arrangement and tonal combination, help us reframe how such a thing might be understood, and a great deal more), each imbued with a remarkable directness and emotive sensibility, and there is the stunning quality of these recordings themselves, transporting each sound to our ears as though we intimately share its creator’s space while being imbued with the pure heart and remarkable spirit with which they were made.“
