Tizita

The only fact we have about this recording is its YouTube title, "Tilahun Gessesse & Tefera Kassa: Tizita 1960s". We found no source confirming a Tefera Kassa credit, and no writers, label, date or personnel. The only similarly named singer in search results was Getachew Kassa, a different artist.

Tizita (also tezeta; ትዝታ) means memory, nostalgia or longing. It is a pentatonic mode of the Amhara and the name of a song form built on it, which Western writers compare to the blues, and OkayAfrica describes it as a form like Brazilian saudade, offered in some version by nearly every singer who has played an Addis stage. Tilahun's Philips single "Sithed Siketelat" of 1970 has "Yefikir Tizita" on the B-side, though we cannot say it is this recording.