""Wede Harer Guzo" is distinctly Mergia but distinct from his other releases. It's blues through and through, while being jazz, traditional Amharic folk music and soulful funk at the same time. The record is built of some of the coolest, smoothest vibrations I've heard out of Ethiopia, or indeed many parts of the world. Mergia knows how to craft a band into producing a very harmonious, full-bodied sound and how to arrange Ethiopia's many traditional songs into laid-back popular tunes. The Dahlak Band itself was clearly made of some very fine musicians, like the steady, subtle drummer driving the swinging soul feel and the eloquent, bluesy guitarist who shines on "Bati Bati" ... Remastered solely from Mergia's personal 40-some-year-old copy of the cassette, the sound lends the music a feeling of times past or maybe even of a hazy Addis nightclub at 4 a.m. It's easy to see how this music could keep people happy all the way until 6 a.m."