Recording
Yèkèrmo Sèw
Mulatu Astatke
- Released
- 1969
- Label
- Amha
- On one list
- Ethio-Jazz
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Analysis
6 sections, no single moment the energy jumps to.
- Tempo
- 117.5 BPM
- holds throughout
- Key
- G minor
- estimated from the pitch content
- Dynamic range
- 4.5 dB
- compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- Length
- 4:16
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:52Asteadybar 26
- 1:38Abreakdownbar 48
- 2:24Bsteadybar 71
- 2:35Cpeakbar 76
- 3:16Aoutrobar 96
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:52
- Energy
- 66
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 42
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:46
- Energy
- 88
- Brightness
- 7
- Density
- 56
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:46
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 33
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:11
- Energy
- 62
- Brightness
- 54
- Density
- 53
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:41
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 1
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 1:00
- Energy
- 92
- Brightness
- 49
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- steady
- holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- outro
- the closing fall
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
Ranked No. 1 in Ethio-Jazz
A vibraphone, a fuzz guitar and a mode that refuses to resolve. Jim Jarmusch later used it in Broken Flowers and introduced the whole tradition to a generation who had never heard of Addis.