Hirut Bekele

Hirut Bekele

*Never heard a krar sound quite so much like its great-great-grandson the banjo.

Oh dang. Happy belated Halloween. Toward that end you’ll find magnificent vocalist Hirut Bekele flexing supernatural powers among a haunted organ. But this goes much deeper than cute accompaniment. There’s a stunning selection of compositions here. Spare but virtuosic orchestrations via krar and aforementioned organ create psychotropic room-filling sonics captured by the rough recording.

Another lovely recording gifted by our homie in Addis named Kidus, some of you may know him.

Extra credit: documentary about Hirut Bekele. Appreciate the stunning songs and rare footage despite your rusty Amharic.

Hirut Bekele

Side A

Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

Track 4

Track 5*

Side B

Track 6

Track 7

Track 8

Track 9

Track 10

Track 11

Track 12

16 Comments

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  • November 4, 2012 at 11:42 pm

    beautiful lady. i love the b/w clips of her sporting an afro! and, yeah, i have no problem watching stuff in a foreign language. it really freaks some people out — OMG what are the SAYING?!?!?! But its usually totally obvious from the context, anyway…

  • November 6, 2012 at 10:30 pm

    wow i think this is one of the most beautiful things ive heard in a long while! thank you!!!
    sara

  • November 7, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    thank you so much tha’ organ o god wut can we do so alive look at our netwrks and you gave us the files the beauty encod’d and digital: and o and o it’s no less real.

    very much gratitude

  • November 8, 2012 at 2:20 am

    could someone please transliterate the title?

  • November 10, 2012 at 1:49 pm

    This is really beautiful, thank you !

  • November 15, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    We can use 3D glasses to see her getting out from the cover. I’ve never saw before such a great anaglyph in a tape.

  • December 3, 2012 at 6:20 pm

    wow ! this is, track A1 to B7 altogether, bloody amazing !

    somebody please transliterate the title & track names, PLEASE !

  • January 4, 2013 at 11:54 pm

    Thank you so much! The banjo instrument and the organ stand out so much on these

  • January 31, 2013 at 11:35 am

    is this beautiful music for sale anywhere?

  • January 20, 2016 at 2:28 pm

    Same question as the last question. Where can I purchase a recording of her music. I really love it!

  • July 5, 2016 at 12:16 am

    Hirut Bekele , My all time signer ! I love her Melody .

  • July 30, 2016 at 8:35 pm

    It is the most favour of my song all the time. I love it– I love to hear this song over and over again– ever lasting- I have a lot of child hood memories on this song

  • January 25, 2018 at 7:53 pm

    Can you tell me which one is the one for…
    Tamraleh yilalu tamraleh…
    Eski lemehonu birtukan neh menderin neh eski liyih…??

  • June 1, 2019 at 7:27 pm

    ሂሩት በቀለ (Hirut Bekele)

    The songs on this cassette:
    A1 ጅንኑ
    A2 አላየነውም ይሉኛል
    A3 እንዲያው ዘራፌዋ
    A4 ምንድን ነው ማርከሻው
    A5 ባቲ
    B1 ጀግናው
    B2 ብቻዋን ናት ይላል
    B3 ሣቅ ግዴለህም
    B4 አላየነውም ይሉኛል
    B5 መናፈቄን አልተው
    B6 ምን ይሻለኛል
    B7 ክላሲካል

    Publisher: ሱፐር ሶኒክ ሙዚቃ ቤት (Supersonic Music Theater)

  • July 24, 2020 at 9:33 am

    Thank You So, So Much for the Tracklist!!
    Do you own that tape?

    • July 27, 2020 at 5:16 am
      In reply to: Ramco

      yep

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