You Got To Be Clean / Miss Nora (Vinyl 7") Reggae & Ska

You Got To Be Clean / Miss Nora (Vinyl 7") Reggae & SkaPreviously unreleased material from the original master tape. The Ethiopians recorded a couple of songs for the Merritone label in 1966. During this proto Reggae period, they surprisingly recorded this Roots song, 'You Got To Be Clean', with lyrics referring to 'Zion', in 1966. The B side is a song expressing the sentimental feelings of a boy who falls in love with a girl.

In the words of Badriyahh

the album is a continuation of the first album

Mulatu Astatq and Muluken Melesse

Czarface meets Metalface

I Believe in You

it's the songs themselves that demand a more subtle approach

'New-Wave-Funk' vibes on that one

or his later hard bop explorations with trumpeter Clifford Brown

home of some of the most striking Italo-disco ever)

Some of the best musicians in Egypt of that time were members - Zaki Osman (trumpet)

Born and raised in Los Angeles

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