Oh No: Dr. No’s Ethiopium LP

Oh No follows up Dr. No’s Oxperiment by diving again into Egon’s record collection for a region-based instrumental beat album. This time he’s offered up and album inspired-by and sampled-from rare 60s and 70s Ethiopian funk, jazz, folk, soul and psychedelic rock. Even if you’ve never heard an instrument tuned to qenet modes before, even if you’re more into ballads than you are tezetas, Oh No’s transformative effect on his source material will blow you away in its otherworldy funkiness.

• Music Label: Stones Throw 2010

reviewed by Stones Throw