Another Quickie review
“Ethiopiques 19” (Ethiopiques (Buda Series), Mahmoud Ahmed)
I don’t have every album in this series ((estimate without counting that I’ve picked up slightly more than half of the 23 titles, mostly from my pals at Aquarius Records in San Francisco)) , but every CD except one has been a great addition to my African music library. My favorite song on this album, called Tezeta, has a simply stunning bass line, along with a moody vocal, sort of like a Hazzan ((cantor)), though in Ethiopian. Great sax too.
Tezeta means nostalgia, a bittersweet longing for the past, btw, and is a frequent song subject. In fact, there is an entire Ethiopiques album devoted to it.