Feedel Band

The Feedel Band’s sound can best be described as an East African jazz, a merging of 1960s R&B and funk with traditional Ethiopian songs and instruments along with other influences. The mixture creates "dynamically rich dancefloor grooves" (NY Music Daily), “the kind of music that has become rare in the post-Internet everybody-knows-about-everything world” (Washington Post). Feedel band’s original pentatonic melodies harken back to the Golden Age of Ethiopian popular music - a time that had Addis Ababa littered with groups playing brass-heavy concoctions influenced by American soul and jazz.