ADMAS / アドマス 商品一覧

REPRESS! これはハイル・メルギア級案件! 1984年に US の African Heritage Records からひっそりとリリースされていた激オブスキュアな電子エチオピアン名盤がついについにリイシュー決定! アンドラス・フォックスがリミックスしたことによって日の目をみることになった、このメロディアスなシンセサイザーアフロファンクの逸品。オリジナルは極めて入手困難で仮に出品されても 300 USDはくだらないのだとか。謎めいたリズムボックス使いがクセになるエチオ・シンセ・ブギー? ブルーアイドならぬドゥイアイド(涙目)なAOR? 電化アフロビート? 白昼夢のハイライフ? スライやシュギー・オーティスなどのリズムボックス・ソウル・ファンからリー・ペリーなどのサイケな音像ファン、そしてハイル・メルギアやフランシス・ベベイ、ウィリアム・オニーバーのファンにも推薦したい、今の時代にぴったりの電子アフリカン傑作です!Frederiksberg Records is proud to announce the first ever vinyl / digital reissue of Admas’ “Sons of Ethiopia”, the privately pressed album from 1984. Fully licensed from Admas, released with their support, the album includes restored sound and art. The extensively researched booklet features unseen photographs and interviews with the band. Sons of Ethiopia is a mostly instrumental album, rich with global influences. It is one of the few recordings to be produced outside Ethiopia in the early 1980s. It is a key document of the Washington DC exile scene. The core members of Admas – Tewodros ‘Teddy’ Aklilu, Henock Temesgen, and Abegasu Shiota – had previously played in a group called Gasha, one of the few local Ethiopian bands. Admas was born from Gasha, as an outlet for their more experimental instincts. Emerging from the community of Ethiopian exiles who fled the brutality of the Derg – the military dictatorship that had deposed Haile Selassie – the album was the sound of a new generation. The members of Admas were not musicians from the ‘golden age’: they were children of the terror of the Derg time. Their music formed during an era of state-sponsored neighbourhood bands and a propaganda-tinged traditional music scene, where the weekends were sound-tracked by the remaining hotel groups of a bygone Imperial world. Admas took Ethiopian popular music into wholly new territory. Having established a residency at the Red Sea restaurant in the early 1980s, the Admas players were steeped in the polyglot musical culture of the American capital. The diverse sonic influences of the city filter into the music, making the album a radically modern work of Ethiopian fusion.Mulatu, Girma Beyene and their peers in 1960s Addis Ababa had created an Ethiopian pop sound by using rhythms from Latin music, soul and jazz. Admas threw their net wider still, adding highlife, electro, go-go, samba, and roots reggae to the mix. Sons of Ethiopia is the fresh sound of youth, freedom and imagination, which the band made for themselves and by themselves, owning every part of the process. But it is also a music of exile. Admas performed week in, week out, for crowds of fellow Ethiopians, many of whom had lost family and friends to the Derg. Sons of Ethiopia channels this loss, longing and hope. It is at once imbued with the melancholy and nostalgia so typical of Ethiopian song. And at the same time, is a joyful work of synthesis and experiment with deep roots.

'84年にひっそりとリリースされていた超オブスキュアなシンセ・ファンク音源が再発! ANDRAS FOXによるリミックスも収録! が、オリジナルがヤバい!!!音源の詳しい詳細は判らないのですが、'84年にUSの超マイナー・レーベル"African Heritage"からリリースされていたもので、どうやらメリーランド州を拠点にしていたエチオピア系アメリカンHENOCK TEMESGENが率いたADMASなるグループが遺した唯一作『Sons Of Ethiopia』に収録されていた内の1曲。先日、"Music From Memory"が再発を成し遂げたNAPOLEON CHERRY辺りのサウンドともリンクするローファイなテククチャーに加え、耳にこびり付く朗らかなメロディーや、中盤のイカレたブレイクなどもヤバすぎるシンセ・ファンク怪作。