hypersongs

Tizita

A song in the tizita style, source recording unidentified.
Hirut Bekele

Our upload is titled Hirut Bekele tizta ሂሩት በቀለ ትዝታ. We found no writer, album, recording date, studio or personnel, and no chart, video, live, cover or sample data; we do not know whether it is a single, a cassette track or another song entirely. Tizita (ትዝታ) means memory, nostalgia or longing, and is a balladic style named for the Tizita qañat pentatonic mode of the Amhara, rooted in village azmari music and compared in Western sources to the blues; her name is not mentioned in Wikipedia's article on the style.

Sources

  1. Tizita, Wikipedia
  2. Hirut Bekele, Wikipedia
  3. Hirut Bekele, Ethiopian Gospel Music