Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia (Vinyl)

Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia (Vinyl)Strut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of African music, Mulatu Astatkes Mulatu Of Ethiopia from 1972. Recorded in New York, the album arrived at a time when Astatke had begun to master the delicate fusion of styles needed to create Ethio jazz. I left the UK for America and studied at Berklee College in Boston. I learnt the technical aspects of jazz and gained a beautiful understanding of many different types of

One thing for sure

finds the band operating at multiple levels and using more varied forms

The elegance of Jim White and Marisa Anderson’s highly attuned collaboration lays in each player’s ability to empathetically spin their collective experience into music of potent and boundless beauty

It was written in a dressing room in upstate New York

envisioning an alternate past and new future as the first step towards realising them

Best known to funk / groove collectors for his 70's library efforts (Freezing Point

Death and Vanilla utilise vintage musical equipment such as vibraphone

now singing the literal journey of the people who came together by the ocean to deliver these songs into our ears

burnt out and broke

” which was recorded the next year

“Build A Nest

pushing and pulling to the drone's internal pulse