Idan Raichel Project – Mimaamakim (Out of the depth)
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Very nice. My wife quickly recognized that the song is actually an amalgram of two Ethiopian songs from the 60s-70s:
http://youtu.be/Or99XrT1meY
http://youtu.be/iOPrZbAuTEg
(Of course, this group added the Hebrew parts .)
Ethiopia had a golden age of music during that time, mixing traditional music with Western pop and jazz. Unfortunately, when the communist Derg regime took over in the mid-70s, it all mostly went silent. Gradually, though, the music community in Ethiopian has reawaken over the past couple of decades since the Derg was overthrown .
Presumably the Israeli connection here comes via the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants who arrived in Israel via the airlift in the 80s and 90s during the Ethiopian civil war –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel#Ethiopian_Civil_War