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Wede Harer Guzo

The title track, arranged by Hailu Mergia; the name means Journey to Harer.
Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band, from Wede Harer Guzo (1978)

Track six runs 6:35 and was arranged by Mergia; we found no writer credit for the underlying melody, and the notes say the album drew on popular songs listeners already knew. The title means Journey to Harer, a city and province in eastern Ethiopia. This is the 1978 studio cassette recording as restored for the 2016 reissue, and we found no commentary on this track. Setlist.fm shows it, as "Wedeharer", eighth at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago on July 21, 2024, and twelfth at the Blue Note in Columbia, Missouri on November 16, 2024. We found no covers, samples or video.

On stage

  • 2024-07-21, Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Chicago Listed as Wedeharer, song 8.
  • 2024-11-16, The Blue Note, Columbia, Missouri Song 12 of the set.

Sources

  1. Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band, Wede Harer Guzo, Awesome Tapes From Africa
  2. Hailu Mergia, Wikipedia
  3. Hailu Mergia interview, FACT (2016-06-12)
  4. Hailu Mergia setlists, setlist.fm