Awalom Gebremariam has been played on NTS in shows including Andrew Weatherall Presents: Music's Not For Everyone, featured first on 12 May 2016. Songs played include Aadu, Teumat Chena and Tehhelo.

Awalom Gebremariam is an Eritrean singer and multi-instrumentalist.

At the age of 28, Awalom Gebremariam arrived in the United States, following a years-long journey from Eritrea. He’d made it to a refugee camp in Ethiopia several years ago and eventually attained asylum status for passage to America. But before he left his hometown, Eritrea’s highland capital Asmara, he made his first and only recording so far, Desdes. Recorded in 2007, the album was unearthed by…