Debo Band: globalFEST 2012

By Anastasia Tsioulcas

Earth-rattling horns and mesmerizingly oscillating vocals: Boston's Debo Band takes the funky, psychedelic groove of 1960s Ethiopia and transplants it firmly onto a 21st-century dance floor.

With 11 musicians crammed every which way onto the tiniest stage of the night — the sousaphone barely cleared overhead pipes — Debo Band closed globalFEST in serious, sweaty, funky style.

Set List

• "Musicawi Silt"
• "Yene Neger"
• "Belomi Benna"
• "Ney Ney Waleba"
• "Asha Gedawo"
• "Lantchi Biye"
• "Tenesh Kelbe Lay"
• "Addis Ababa Bete"
• "Gedawo"