Album artwork for Tewedije Limut (Let Me Die Loved) by Ayalew Mesfin

Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin’s music is some of the funkiest to arise from this unconquerable East African nation. Mesfin’s recording career, captured in nearly two dozen 7” singles and numerous reel-to-reel tapes, shows the strata of the most fertile decade in Ethiopia’s 20th century recording industry, when records were pressed constantly by both independent upstarts and corporate behemoths, even if they were only distributed within the confines of this East African nation. Though Mesfin was forced underground by the Derg regime that took control of Ethiopia in 1974, he has returned almost 50 years later with this triumphant set albums – the first time that his music has been presented in this form. These albums give us a chance to discover a rare and beautiful moment in music history, in anthologies built from Mesfin’s uber-rare 7” single releases and from previously unreleased recordings taken from master tapes. Tewedije Limut gives us a chance to discover a rare and beautiful moment in music history, in an anthology built from his uber-rare 7” single releases.

Ayalew Mesfin

Tewedije Limut (Let Me Die Loved)

Now Again Records
Album artwork for Tewedije Limut (Let Me Die Loved) by Ayalew Mesfin
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£27.99

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Album artwork for Tewedije Limut (Let Me Die Loved) by Ayalew Mesfin
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Album artwork for Tewedije Limut (Let Me Die Loved) by Ayalew Mesfin
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Ayalew Mesfin

Tewedije Limut (Let Me Die Loved)

Now Again Records
Album artwork for Tewedije Limut (Let Me Die Loved) by Ayalew Mesfin
LP

£27.99

With Oversized 11” x 11” 16 Page Book

Black
Released 02/06/2023Catalogue Number

NA5194LP

Learn more
Album artwork for Tewedije Limut (Let Me Die Loved) by Ayalew Mesfin
LP +

£29.99

White
Released 15/09/2023Catalogue Number

NA5194CLP

Learn more
Album artwork for Tewedije Limut (Let Me Die Loved) by Ayalew Mesfin
CD

£12.99

Released 30/10/2020Catalogue Number

NA5194CD

Learn more

Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin’s music is some of the funkiest to arise from this unconquerable East African nation. Mesfin’s recording career, captured in nearly two dozen 7” singles and numerous reel-to-reel tapes, shows the strata of the most fertile decade in Ethiopia’s 20th century recording industry, when records were pressed constantly by both independent upstarts and corporate behemoths, even if they were only distributed within the confines of this East African nation. Though Mesfin was forced underground by the Derg regime that took control of Ethiopia in 1974, he has returned almost 50 years later with this triumphant set albums – the first time that his music has been presented in this form. These albums give us a chance to discover a rare and beautiful moment in music history, in anthologies built from Mesfin’s uber-rare 7” single releases and from previously unreleased recordings taken from master tapes. Tewedije Limut gives us a chance to discover a rare and beautiful moment in music history, in an anthology built from his uber-rare 7” single releases.