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Mulatu astatke is first and foremost a composer but also a multi instrumentalist playing the vibraphone keyboards and organs.
Born in the western ethiopian city of jimma mulatu was musically trained in london new york city and boston where he combined his jazz and latin music interests with traditional ethiopian.
The pioneer of ethio jazz mulatu astatke developed his sound through studies in the uk during the 50s and a series of seminal recordings for domestic label amha before travelling to new york to record the mulatu of ethiopia album.
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Born 19 december 1943 is an ethiopian musician and arranger considered as the father of ethio jazz.
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Available on vinyl lp cd.
He is further credited as having established congas and bongos instruments normally central to latin styles in ethiopian music.
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His band is members of the either orchestra a boston area semi big band with a recording in the ethiopiques series 20.
From new york city to addis ababa.
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Mulatu of ethiopia is the third album astatke recorded in new york for the worthy label but the first with a recognisably ethiopian character.
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 believe this is his first recording of all new material since the 70s.
Various editions are available cd lp and triple lp featuring the original album remastered plus rare photos an exclusive interview and on some formats outtakes and a mono master.
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Strut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of african music mulatu astatke s mulatu of ethiopia from 1972.
Since collaborating with the heliocentrics in 2009 for strut he has continued recording and is a major draw on the global.
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Its predecessors afro latin soul volume 1 and volume 2 were made with nuyorican musicians while astatke was studying at berklee college of music in the mid 1960s and are generic latin.
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Mulatu astatke s 1972 new york recorded album mulatu of ethiopia is a true classic of afro jazz and an early key step for mulatu.