| 词条 | Walias Band |
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| background = group_or_band | name = Walias Band | image = | caption = | landscape = | image_size = | alias = Wallias Band The Walias | years_active = Early 1970s–1990s | origin = Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | genre = Ethiopian music, funk | label = Amha Records, Kaifa Records. Buda Musique | associated_acts = Venus Band, Mulatu Astatke, Tilahun Gessesse, Mahmoud Ahmed | past_members = Mahmoud Aman Melake Gebre Hailu Mergia Girma Beyene Temare Haragy Yohanese Tekola Tilaye Gebre Mulatu Astatke | website = }}Walias Band (sometimes spelled Wallias Band; {{lang-am|ዋሊያስ ባንድ}}) were an Ethiopian jazz and funk band active from the early 1970s until the early 1990s. Formed by members of the Venus Band, Walias backed up many prominent singers with a hard polyrhythmic funk sound influenced by western artists like King Curtis, Junior Walker and Maceo Parker. In 1977 they recorded one of the few albums of Ethiopian instrumental music in collaboration with vibraphonist Mulatu Astatke, whose role as a bandleader and composer was also a major influence on Ethiopian popular music.[1] HistoryWalias formed in the early 1970s in Addis Ababa where they were the house band for the upscale Hilton Hotel.[2] A civilian curfew made it dangerous for clientele visiting the hotel lounge to leave after 11:00 PM, and Walias would end up playing two or three sets until 6:00 AM the next day. In 1981 Walias became the first modern Ethiopian band to travel to the United States, playing on a tour with singer Mahmoud Ahmed primarily to audiences of Ethiopian refugees. Rather than returning to Ethiopia under its dictatorship, four members of Walias—Girma Bèyènè, Mogès Habté, Mèlakè Gèbrè and Hailu Mergia—stayed in the U.S. and formed a new group called Zula Band.[3] Mergia took work in Washington DC driving a taxi cab, often practicing in his cab while waiting for fares at the airport, and released solo cassette tapes of traditional Ethiopian music played on analog synthesizer, electric piano and accordion.[4][5] Meanwhile the members of Walias who returned to Ethiopia—Yohannes Tèkola and Tèmarè Harègou—continued to play together under the Derg dictatorship for another decade.[6] In the late 1990s Walias Band found a wider audience in the west when the French label Buda Records reissued much of the group's music on the Ethiopiques series of compact discs. Their instrumental, "Musicawi Silt", became a popular dance number and has been covered by a number of artists. Not much else of Walias' music was known until African music cassette collector Brian Shimkovitz found a Walias Band tape while traveling in Ethiopia. After hearing it, Shimkovitz found keyboardist Hailu Mergia's phone number on the Internet, called him up, and arranged an official re-release of Walias Band's music.[2] NameThe Walias Band's name derives from the walia ibex, an endangered species of the Capra genus native to the mountains of Ethiopia. They share no members with the similarly named Ibex Band who also backed up Mahmoud Ahmed during the same epoch.[7] Members
Mulatu Astatke played vibraphone on Walias Band's 1977 album Tche Belew. Vocalists that Walias worked with included Getachew Kassa, Mahmoud Ahmed, Woubishet Fisseha, Alemayehu Borobor, Seyoum Gebreyes, Netsanet Mellessè and Tilahun Gessesse. Selected discography
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=Hailu Mergia and The Band Wallias|url=http://www.nowagainrecords.com/walias-band-musical-silt/|publisher=Now-Again Records|accessdate=4 May 2012}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Newnam|first1=Brendan Francis|title=The Re-Emergence of Hailu Mergia|url=http://www.dinnerpartydownload.org/the-re-emergence-of-hailu-mergia/|website=The Dinner Party Download|publisher=American Public Media|accessdate=18 June 2016}} 3. ^{{cite news|last=Schweitzer|first=Ally|title=Awesome Tapes From Africa Reissues Songs From Hailu Mergia, Local Cab Driver|url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/06/21/awesome-tapes-from-africa-reissues-songs-from-hailu-mergia-local-cab-driver/|accessdate=13 July 2013|newspaper=Washington City Paper|date=21 June 2013}} 4. ^{{cite web|last=Porzucki|first=Nina|title=Ethiopian Musician Hailu Mergia: From the Nightclubs of Addis Ababa to a Cab in DC|url=http://www.pri.org/stories/2013-07-12/ethiopian-musician-hailu-mergia-nightclubs-addis-ababa-cab-dc|work=The World's Global Hit|publisher=Public Radio International|accessdate=13 July 2013}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument|url=http://www.awesometapes.com/2013/05/hailu-mergia-and-his-classcal-instrument.html|publisher=Awesome Tapes From Africa|accessdate=13 July 2013}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Alemayehu Borobor & The Walias|url=http://radiodiffusion.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/alemayehu-borobor-the-walias|publisher=Radio Diffusion|accessdate=24 July 2016}} 7. ^{{cite web|last=di Txada|first=Olavo|title=Tilahun Gessesse with the Walias Band|url=http://www.awesometapes.com/2008/02/amharic-speakers-help-us-out.html|publisher=Awesome Tapes From Africa|accessdate=4 May 2012}} 1 : Ethiopian musical groups |
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