Laid down on a four-track recorder over two sessions at the Ras Hotel ballroom in Addis Ababa in 1976, Ibex Band’s Stereo Instrumental Music is a foundational, if little-heard, document of Ethiopian music. Led by guitarist Selam Woldemariam and bassist Giovanni Rico, the group—which would go on to become the Roha Band and back Ethiopian greats such as Mulatu Astake, Girma Beyene, and Mahmoud Ahmed—was aided by Swedish radio worker Karl-Gustav who was working for the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus at the time.