NEWS FLASH! TESHOME'S NEW ALBUM WILL BE IN STORES IN THE FALL!
TOPIA'S DELUGE IS IN STORES NOW!
"Topia's Deluge" includes 12 splendid tracks, available now on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com and in major record stores.
Retailers: contact Allegro Music to order.
ABOUT TESHOME MITIKU
Teshome's career stretches back over thirty years in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His career skyrocketed in the late 60's as a member of the influential Soul Ekos band, writing and composing hits like Gara Ser New Betesh, Yezemed Yebada, Mot Adeladlogn and Hasabe, featured on Ethiopiques Volume 1. More details at TeshomeMitiku.com
PRESS
Topia's Deluge is essentially a mainstream pop recording. Its synth lines and other melodic instrumentation, its orchestrations and beats--both danceable and smooth--will sound familiar to any listener of contemporary radio, and Mitiku's robust yet subtle vocals and rounded-edges production is easily accessible....
-allmusic
Muluqen Melesse, Teshome Meteku, Getatchew Kassa, Alemayehu Eshete and Hirut Beqele. For most, these names only constitute a riddle, but the music they made in the 1960s and 70s will catch anyone's attention.
-Cairo Times
Thank you so much for your kind comments! Coming from a pioneer like you, it's a big honor! Really love your unique style, your playing, your work! Betam enamesegenalen for all you do! :)
Since no creature created in your image and to your pattern gives up hope that everything he begs of you will be done for him until the day you sever his soul from his body, We beseech you that Ethiopia should not remain will her freedom extinct and prostrate under an alien ruler, so that the mouth of her peoples be silenced for fear of a foreign governor, but rather that you will save them by your deeds of kindness, lest they remain with their hearts oppressed through being deprived of their own Ethiopian ruler who was leading them towards civilization under a light yoke and with gladness!!!
BEZU FEKER ENA SELAM LANTHE LEMAKEBREHE YEHUNE! ADDISHIWOT
O Lord, almighty in whom there is no weakness, external in whom there is no transience; in admiring your work as well as your judgements, a created being, even after much searching, cannot fathom them-except to a limited extent. It is a subtle secret which a creature, even after much exploring, cannot know but which you alone do know: why in the immediate past as well as now you have made the Ethiopian people, from the ordinary man to the Emperor..... Have a bless day! ADDISHIWOT
O Lord,abode of exiles,light of the blind! Truth & justice are your thrones. Receive us who have been exiled for our freedom's sake,who have had to leave our country on account of violent assault. In praying to you thus, it is not for our righteousness but for your great mercies!!! Have a bless day! ADDISHIWOT
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