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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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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, ...

Album

Sketches Of Ethiopia

Label: Harmonia Mundi
Released: 2013
Track listing: Azmari; Gamo; Hager Fiker; Gambella; Assosa Derache; Gumuz; Motherland Abay; Surma.

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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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