{"id":81790,"date":"2018-02-09T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T18:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/?guid=799374296ce4690cd7459496c77f0599"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:41:23","slug":"ayalw-msfin-a-lost-voice-from-ethiopias-golden-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/81790","title":{"rendered":"Ayal\u00e9w M\u00e8sfin, a lost voice from Ethiopia&#039;s Golden Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.berkeleyside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/30088393442_13e8d9866f_k.jpg?resize=780%2C519\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the most memorable concerts in Berkeley last year was the UC Theatre performance by vibraphonist\/composer Mulatu Astatke, the patriarch of Ethiojazz. Vocalist and composer Ayal\u00e9w M\u00e8sfin, another giant from Ethiopian music\u2019s golden age of the 1970s, arrives in town with Boston\u2019s Debo Band for a show at Cornerstone on Sunday, but unlike the celebrated Mulatu, who gained Western pop cultural currency after Jim Jarmusch laced his entire 2005 film Broken Flowers with his music, Ayal\u00e9w is more of an unseen legend than an active presence these days. [&#8230;] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleyside.com\/2018\/02\/09\/ayalew-mesfin-lost-voice-ethiopias-golden-age\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most memorable concerts in Berkeley last year was the UC Theatre performance by vibraphonist\/composer Mulatu Astatke, the patriarch of Ethiojazz. Vocalist and composer Ayal\u00e9w M\u00e8sfin, another giant from Ethiopian music\u2019s golden age of the 1970s, arrives in town with Boston\u2019s Debo Band for a show at Cornerstone on Sunday, but unlike the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[2991],"class_list":["post-81790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-lhc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81790","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264052,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81790\/revisions\/264052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}