YALO, GILI - Made In Amharica (Sealed) (CDM)

After a big success of his first LP released last year, touring around the world and getting highly lauded by international crowd, Gili Yalo comes back with his new release. Ethiopian origin, Israeli artist - Gili Yalo brings together more than two musical worlds this time. The new EP - Made in Amharica is a result of Gili Yalo's cooperation with Niles City Sound - Grammy Awards nominees (Best R&B Album and Best Traditional R&B Performance for Leon Bridges' LP "Coming Home"), production team consisting of Josh Block, Austin Jenkins and Chris Vivion. The EP songs reflect the cooperation between Gili Yalo and Dallas based musicians in the high-end vintage equipped recording studios of Niles City Sound Studio in Fort Worth's South Main. The EP consists of 4 songs - in English and Amharic. The title of the EP is a word play. Amharic is a language of Ethiopian people. The total 4 songs were recorded in America, South Main. Gili Yalo combines modern definition of Ethiopian roots, strong funky and jazzy influences with a deep soul feeling. Made in Amharica is something more - soul and RnB flavour of his music got strengthen by American musicians, production team and the best sounding analogue vintage sound equipment. Biography: From his base in Tel Aviv, Gili Yalo is launching a solo career in a new project that combines Ethiopian roots with soul, funk, psychedelic and jazz music. Gili Yalo, who has collaborated with top music producers Beno Hendler (Balkan Beat Box) and Uri Brauner Kinrot (Boom Pam), incorporates sounds from traditional Ethiopian music into a contemporary music production. The result is an exceptional, rich, vivid melody accompanied by Gili's unique voice with lyrics in both English and Amharic. The music made by Gili Yalo embodies his own personal story, which inspired the rhythm and flow of the whole project. And what a story he has to tell: Operation Moses was the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews from Sudan during a famine in 1984. These Ethiopian Jews fled from their native land on foot to refugee camps in Sudan. Together with his family, Gili Yalo made this perilous trip, walked through the desert towards the "Promised Land" and sang to his beloved ones. In the course of !3 this exhausting and emotional journey, the music encouraged Gili and his family to keep on moving.