Listen to Mikael Seifu - Zelalem Mixtape

To further contextualize the productions of Zelalem, Mikael Seifu compiled a mixtape of native Ethiopian and African folk music previously available as only a limited cassette release from RVNG.

The literal Amharic translation of Zelalem is “eternity,” and through Seifu’s conceptual frame it becomes a “vector of light." Seifu shines this light on the music of his home country while guiding us through an uncharted "Ethiopiyawi Electronic" - a coinage Seifu uses to describe the music he and his peers are producing in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis-Ababa.