(Agogo)The Melbourne collective and 76-year-old Astatke play wedding songs, political rap and cross-continental fusions Like many great jazz originals liberated by the idiom's openness to all manner of borrowings and hybrids, the Ethiopian multi-instrumentalist and composer Mulatu Astatke created a new sound by unlikely alchemy - between the Latin grooves and jazz-rock wah-wah guitars he heard as a student in the States in the 60s, and the wide-interval modes and fluid rhythms of his homeland's ...
Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience: To Know Without Knowing review - bright Ethio-jazz
The Guardian - 26 Jun 2020 11:00
(Agogo)The Melbourne collective and 76-year-old Astatke play wedding songs, political rap and cross-continental fusions Like many great jazz originals liberated by the idiom's openness to all manner of borrowings and hybrids, the Ethiopian multi-instrumentalist and composer Mulatu Astatke created a new sound by unlikely alchemy - between the Latin grooves and jazz-rock wah-wah guitars he heard as a student in the States in the 60s, and the wide-interval modes and fluid rhythms of his homeland's ...
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