Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia (Vinyl) Album Rock currently playing in Makaya McCraven’s

currently playing in Makaya McCraven’s combo and in the Art Ensemble of Chicago

30th anniversary reissue of the historic coming together of two icons of leftfield music

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We had to lug around more equipment than your average band and often had to deal with temperamental synthesizers and samplers that would fail at inopportune moments

Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia (Vinyl) Album Rock currently playing in Makaya McCraven’sStrut 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