Teodros Makonnen With His Organ

Recorded in a single unbroken take on a borrowed Yamaha double-deck keyboard, this cassette-only session finds a teenage hotel band arranger rerouting Ethiopian song through analog circuitry, stripping familiar melodies down to divine-sounding compositions. Long before this brand of homemade futurism earned its visionary label, Teodros Makonnen was working the organ like a portal, coaxing curfew-bound midnight sessions into some of the era's most unguarded, interior music.