Krar Collective: Ethiopia Super Krar – review

(Riverboat)Currently touring the country with Damon Albarn and the other musicians on the Africa Express train, Krar Collective are a London-based trio who started out playing at weddings in the Ethiopian community, and have developed their own distinctive style, based largely on reworking traditional songs from across Ethiopia. The band is led by Temesgen Zeleke, who was encouraged to bring a new approach to his playing of the krar, the ancient Ethiopian lyre, by the Ethio-jazz legend Mulatu A...

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