{"id":54855,"date":"2020-07-01T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=54855"},"modified":"2020-07-01T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:08:15","slug":"admas-sons-of-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/admas-sons-of-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Admas&#8217; Ethiopian pop album Sons of Ethiopia reissued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Originally released in 1984, the LP <em>Sons of Ethiopia<\/em> will be reissued for the first time in vinyl by Frederiksberg Records on July 27th.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of Admas \u2014 composed of Tewodros &#8220;Teddy&#8221; Aklilu, Henock Temesgen and Abegasu Shiota \u2014 were the children of terror and propaganda of the Derg era &#8211; the military dictatorship that overthrew Haile Selassie in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally released in 1984, <em>Sons of Ethiopia<\/em> will be reissuedd for the first time by Frederiksberg Records, the label founded in New York in 2013 by Danish video journalist and music lover Andreas Vingaard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exiled to Washington, D.C., far from the oppressive propaganda and state terror of Derg-led Ethiopia, Admas has taken Ethiopian popular music to a whole new territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><iframe style=\"border: 0; 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