{"id":273725,"date":"2019-04-22T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMia2h0dHA6Ly93d3cudGFkaWFzLmNvbS8wNC8yMi8yMDE5L211c2ljLWRleHRlci1zdG9yeXMtYmFoaXItZmVhdHVyaW5nLWhhbWVsbWFsLWFiYXRlLWlzLXRyaWJ1dGUtdG8tZXRoaW9waWEv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:22:33","slug":"dexter-storys-bahir-album-paid-tribute-to-ethiopia-with-hamelmal-abate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273725","title":{"rendered":"Dexter Story\u2019s Bahir album paid tribute to Ethiopia with Hamelmal Abate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tadias Magazine highlighted Dexter Story\u2019s album <strong>Bahir<\/strong>, featuring Hamelmal Abate and collaborators such as Kibrom Birhane, Sudan Archives, and Haile Supreme, as a musical tribute steeped in Ethiopian and Horn sounds.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-289226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Musician-Elias-Melka-memorial-event-at-the-National-Theater-in-Addis-Ababa.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dexter Story\u2019s Bahir album paid tribute to Ethiopia with Hamelmal Abate\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Culture coverage matters on Mereja\u2019s 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 communiqu\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadias.com\/04\/22\/2019\/music-dexter-storys-bahir-featuring-hamelmal-abate-is-tribute-to-ethiopia\/\">Tadias Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music: Dexter Story&#8217;s &#8216;Bahir&#8217; Featuring Hamelmal Abate is Tribute to Ethiopia at Tadias Magazine&nbsp;&nbsp;Tadias MagazineDexter Story&#8217;s new album features mesmerizing collaborations with diverse artists including Kibrom Birhane, Sudan Archives, Haile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":289226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Musician-Elias-Melka-memorial-event-at-the-National-Theater-in-Addis-Ababa.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19cV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601052,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273725\/revisions\/601052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}