We’re huge fans of Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke here at the Quietus – have a read of John Doran’s extensive interview that we published back in the spring of 2009. 2010 looks set to be an even ...
For the first 40 years of his professional life, composer and vibraphonist Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethio-jazz, remained practically unknown outside his own country. That changed in 2005, when ...
The last time we checked in with Ethiopian jazz pioneer/composer/multi-tasker Mulatu Astatke, we spent some time pondering how to categorize his "Ethio-jazz." It's ...
In Hindu cosmology, the world is traditionally depicted as a dome resting on the backs of four strong elephants, who themselves stand on the shell of a giant tortoise. In the traditional music of the ...
An idiosyncratic amalgam of late 1960s/early 1970s US jazz and jazz-rock refracted through the prism of Ethiopian five-tone scales and harmonies, the early work of composer, keyboardist and bandleader ...
His legendary jazz fused American style and Cuban rhythms with East Africa’s pentatonic scales. Now, at age 82, Mulatu Astatke wants to turn the spotlight on the tribal musicians of his beloved ...
The pioneering 81-year-old vibes player, keyboardist and percussionist creates a controlled whirlwind of experimentation and excitement Absolutely nothing about this set feels predictable: at 81, ...
ADDIS ABABA: Mulatu Astatke struggled for decades before his name became associated worldwide with a musical genre and he was finally born as the father of Ethio-jazz. Now despite that long journey ...
It was Jim Jarmusch’s 2005 film Broken Flowers that made his name - that and the excellent cult album series Ethiopiques. The transcendent element is that the music jolts you out of conventional ...
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