JazzTokyo - Review of Hermon Mehari "Asmara" album by Keiichi Konishi

Extract translated from original text in Japanese by Keiichi Konishi

"...However, this new work features two songs by Faytinga, a female singer from the same region, and has a stronger Eritrean flavour than the above work, and the overall sound is more tense (a relaxed scale feeling)... Featured here is Faytinga, a female singer who has participated in the Eritrean war of Independance (Independence in 1993) as a female fighter. With her well-rounded and relaxed singing voice, she sings impressively about her land, and it seems that the various problems facing this country (which appears to have been a dictatorship for many years) can be seen through it..." 

https://jazztokyo.org/reviews/cd-dvd-review/post-82097/