Tadias Magazine highlighted Dexter Story’s album Bahir, featuring Hamelmal Abate and collaborators such as Kibrom Birhane, Sudan Archives, and Haile Supreme, as a musical tribute steeped in Ethiopian and Horn sounds.
The project sat in a long diaspora and Los Angeles-Ethiopia conversation: jazz, Ethio-grooves, and singers who carry Amharic phrasing into global playlists without turning heritage into kitsch.
Culture coverage matters on Mereja’s archive because politics is not the only Ethiopian story worth keeping. Music is soft power, memory, and sometimes consolation when the news is only checkpoints and communiqués.
Bahir remains a clean lifestyle/culture keeper: named artists, a concrete release moment, and a bridge between Ethiopian listeners and the wider Black Atlantic sound world.
Sources: Tadias Magazine
