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The golden age of Ethiopian music

One of the surprise highlights of this year's festival season could be a band from Ethiopia. Nicola Stanbridge reports on the musicians whose experience spans the time of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Golden age of swinging 60s Addis Ababa and the challenges of the Marxist Derg regime.

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