Hailu Mergia - Pioneer Works Swing (Live) (2023)
Hailu Mergia - Pioneer Works Swing (Live) (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 383 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 Mb | Scans included | 00:57:59
Ethnic Jazz, Jazz-Funk | Label: Awesome Tapes From Africa
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 383 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 Mb | Scans included | 00:57:59
Ethnic Jazz, Jazz-Funk | Label: Awesome Tapes From Africa
First live album from Hailu Mergia on Awesome Tapes From Africa.Tracklist:
"It’s been a little over ten years since Hailu Mergia re- emerged on the international music scene. Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began performing live again after many years driving a cab in Washington, DC. His first show back appeared on the front page of the New York Times along with a stellar review and he took off from there performing his flavor of Ethiopian jazz all over the world in the years since, including Radio City Music Hall and Montreal Jazz Festival.
Finally, we have a recorded document of the keyboard player’s powerful DC-based trio—which practices each weekend in his basement—featuring Kenneth Joseph on drums and Alemseged Kebede on bass. Beautifully captured at one of their fiery live shows at the venerable Brooklyn non-profit cultural center Pioneer Works on July 1, 2016, the concert was recorded by PW staff and mixed by Ted Young with mastering by ATFA’s expert audio extraction collaborator Jessica Thompson. The performance clarifies what many people across the globe already know: in his fifth decade of music-making Hailu Mergia continues to push the boundaries of his remarkable abilities.
Mergia and his veteran band energetically and playfully unpeel layer after layer of harmonic and rhythmic interest out of a spectrum of Ethiopian repertoire. Modern jazz demands constant reinvention and improvisation, night after night creating new works out of known modes and classic standards. This band is unstoppable when it comes to turning age-old melodies (like “Tizita” or “Anchihoye Lene”) upside down and inside out until they emerge as molten new works, often spontaneously. Mergia’s original compositions (like “Yegle Nesh”) shine brighter than ever here as well. Moving from keyboard to organ to accordion to melodica, he deftly switches instruments—often during the same song. Mergia at 77 years old seems to be working harder than musicians half his age.
Pioneer Works Swing (Live) brings into focus the kind of onstage group improvisation and deadly solo passages that reach for places Mergia and the band have never gone, on festival and club stages across four continents."
Hailu Mergia — (keyboards, accordion, melodica, vocals)
Alemseged Kebede — (bass guitar)
Kenneth Joseph — (drums)
Recorded Live at Pioneer Works on July 1, 2016
01. Yegle Nesh (6:20)
02. Hari Meru Meru (4:46)
03. Monalisa Nesh (7:49)
04. Tizita (11:47)
05. Belew Beduby (5:55)
06. Anchihoye Lene (7:17)
07. Abichu Nega Nega (5:27)
08. Yetewat Hilm (8:34)
Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020
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Hailu Mergia / Pioneer Works Swing (Live)
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EAC extraction logfile from 18. February 2024, 9:05
Hailu Mergia / Pioneer Works Swing (Live)
Used drive : DVD RW Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
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Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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