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Sketches of Ethiopia

Label: Harmonia Mundi
Released: 2014
Track listing: Azmari; Gamo; Hager Fiker; Gambella; Assosa Derache; Gumuz; Motherland Abay; Surma.

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News: Festival

Jazztopad Hosts Wadada Leo Smith, Pharoah Sanders And Mulatu Astatke, 13 - 23 November

Jazztopad Hosts Wadada Leo Smith, Pharoah Sanders And Mulatu Astatke, 13 - 23 November

Jazztopad, the internationally renowned Polish jazz festival held in Wroclaw, returns for its 11th edition from 13 – 23 November 2014. This year promises to be a tremendously exciting festival, with the usual mixture of jazz legends, up-and-coming talent, World Premieres, international showcases and much more besides. Trumpeter Nate Wooley gets the festival underway on the ...

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Article: Album Review

Mulatu Astatke: Sketches of Ethiopia

Read "Sketches of Ethiopia" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Vibraphonist/composer Mulatu Astatke is the creator of Ethio-jazz and reputedly the first African musician to study at Berklee. Prior to that he had studied music in Wales and London. Whilst in America in the 1960s and early 1970s Astatke absorbed diverse influences and a dense rhythmic mosaic is a key component of this pulsating recording. Afro-Latin, ...

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Article: Album Review

Orlando Julius and The Heliocentrics: Jayeide Afro

Read "Jayeide Afro" reviewed by Enrico Bettinello


Dimmi con chi suoni e ti dirò chi sei. Gli inglesi Heliocentrics guidati da Malcolm Catto, sotto gli auspici dei padri Sun Ra e James Brown, hanno nel DNA la sensibilità per aprirsi alle migliori collaborazioni. Lo hanno fatto con Lloyd Miller (etnomusicologo e musicista di visionaria esperienza), con Mulatu Astatke (non serve vi ...

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Article: Album Review

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: Alexander Hawkins: Step Wide, Step Deep

Read "Alexander Hawkins: Step Wide, Step Deep" reviewed by John Sharpe


You don't need to spend long in the company of pianist Alexander Hawkins to realize that his encyclopedic knowledge of jazz encompasses everything from Duke Ellington to the avant-garde. That's as true of recordings as it is in person, and amply demonstrated on Step Wide, Step Deep, where the moods range from lazy Sunday afternoon to ...

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Article: Lyrics

Save the Date - Agosto 2014

Read "Save the Date - Agosto 2014" reviewed by Luca Canini


L'agosto balneare dei festival italiani passa dalle isole e dalle spiagge. Mentre all'estero impazza il meglio del meglio (Lisbona, Saalfelden, Willisau, Mulhouse), nel Bel Paese tocca inseguire le orde di vacanzieri per intercettare i pochi eventi degni di segnalazione. Quelli che vanno a genio a noi di Save the Date, che nella lista dei consigli infiliamo ...

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Article: Album Review

Dub Colossus: Dub Colossus: Addis To Omega

Read "Dub Colossus: Addis To Omega" reviewed by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton


If you're a sucker for BIG horn sections, or something like the sounds of UB40 and Groove Armada, still have a 'lickle ting' for Bob Marley and Finley Quaye records and your Pops obsession with Two-Tone (as do we all surely), then you're probably going to like Addis to Omega from Dub Colossus produced by Dubulah ...

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Article: Lyrics

Save the Date - Giugno 2014

Read "Save the Date - Giugno 2014" reviewed by Luca Canini


È stato un maggio entusiasmante. Il quartetto di Michael Formanek e l'Arkestra a Vicenza, l'omaggio a “Butch" Morris confezionato da Wayne Horvitz passato da Novara e Bologna, gli Overseas IV di Evind Opsvik a Correggio e Foligno, Andy Moor e Yannis Kyriakides visti a Forlì e Venezia: una meraviglia appresso all'altra per un mese di grande ...

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Sketches of Ethiopia

Featuring the music of Mulatu Astatke
Duration: 6:16

Mulatu Astatke, the godfather of Ethiopian jazz, presents a blissful and colourful music weaving modern groove with age-old melodies, and western classical music with Latin and afro funk rhythms.
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Article: Album Review

Mulatu Astatke: Sketches of Ethiopia

Read "Sketches of Ethiopia" reviewed by Chris May


Sketches of Ethiopia is, extraordinarily, the first album Mulatu Astatke, the godfather of Ethio-jazz, has recorded with his own band for an international label of influence. It has been a long time coming and it is a corker.Astatke, on vibraphone and keyboards, is accompanied by his regular touring band, Step Ahead, which has at ...


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