NORTH ADAMS — Music can trace a journey, and in the case of Debo Band, this includes the personal along with the spiritual and sonic. Its mix of Ethiopian pop with tinges of American soul and funk ...

The Boston band's debut album both honors and updates the sound of "swinging Addis," the Ethiopian capital in the late '60s and early '70s. Boston's Debo Band takes inspiration from a golden era of ...

With its Ethiopian roots, the group infuses its worldly sound with funk, R&B, rock and brass music. Debo Band On World Cafe Debo Band On World Cafe Debo Band On World Cafe The 11-member group from ...

With its rolling grooves, heavy arrangements, funky horn sections, and sophisticated singers, Ethiopian pop music’s so-called golden age (1969-74) bears scant resemblance to any other African style of ...

Debo Band, an 11-member Boston-based Ethiopian-American ensemble that's taken its sunny grooves from South by Southwest to Addis Ababa, performs next on the Dartmouth Green at the corner of Wheelock ...

Boston’s Debo Band both recaptures and transcends the golden age of Ethiopian music, adding accordion, strings, and sousaphone to its rolling grooves, funky horn sections, and suave vocalisms to ...