Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics: New York - Addis - London [Vinyl 2LP 180 g]

Afrobeat / Funk / Soul
premiera polska: 2011-03-10
seria wydawnicza: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975
kontynent: Afryka
kraj: Ethiopia
opakowanie: Gatefoldowe etui
opis: Opis Wydawcy:
Mulatu to największy w tej chwili twórca afro/ethiopian jazzu na świecie, genialny wibrafonista i multiinstrumentalista. Od lat 60. jest muzycznym ambasadorem Etiopii. W oryginalny sposób połączył zachodni jazz i funk z tradycyjną etiopską melodyką i elementami egipskiej muzyki sakralnej. Znany jest głównie ze składanek "Ethiopiques".
Na żywo występuje z The Heliocentrics czyli brytyjskim kolektywem progresywnych instrumentalistów dowodzony przez mrocznego mistrza perkusji Malcolma Catto. Debiutowali w 2007 roku przekraczającym bariery kosmicznego groove'u albumem "Out There". Członkowie grupy współpracowali z takimi artystami, jak: Madlib (Catto współpracował przy jego krążku "Shades of Blue" dla Blue Note oraz przy projekcie Yesterdays New Quintet), DJ Shadow (The Heliocentrics wspierali go w "This Time I'm Gonna Do It My Way" pochodzącym z albumu "The Outsider"), Dap Kings, Herbaliser, Poets of Rhythm.

Editor's Info:
Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached a global audience and a new, younger generation of fans. In November of last year, he recorded an inspired new album with London psych jazz band The Heliocentrics for Strut's 'Inspiration Information' studio collaboration series. Now, Strut are proud to present, for the first time anywhere, the definitive Mulatu career retrospective covering his landmark '60s and '70s recordings.

Mulatu is a true pioneer of African music. He was the first Ethiopian musician of his generation to travel extensively and to record abroad - he studied in the UK in Wales and at Trinity College Of Music in London, cutting his teeth on the buoyant London jazz scene of the early '60s. He became the first African student to attend Harvard and he lived and recorded in New York, developing a unique sound that fused Western jazz with traditional Ethiopian melodies. As Mulatu says, "it took a long time to get the balance, to let the colours and the feelings of the Ethiopian modes shine through." Returning to 'Swinging Addis' during the late '60s, he became a pivotal figure, arranging for many of the country's top vocalists and developing rich, dense textures in his own music during the final years of Selassie's reign and the mid-'70s rule of the Derg Communist military junta.

Tracing the progression of his Ethio jazz experiments with full access to all of the labels for whom he recorded, Mulatu Astatke: New York-Addis-London is the essential Mulatu. Covering his first recordings in the UK during 1965, his groundbreaking fusions for the small Worthy label in New York and his key '70s recordings back in Addis on Amha, Phillips and Axum, the album features comprehensive sleeve notes by Miles Cleret, boss of the excellent Soundway Records imprint, and rare, previously unseen photos from Mulatu's personal archive.

utwory:
A1. Yekermo Sew
A2. I Faram Gami I Faram
A3. Shagu
A4. Emnete
A5. Mulatu
B1. Yegelé Tezeta
B2. Asiyo Bellema
B3. Ebo Lala
B4. Fikratchin
B5. Yefikir Tizita
C1. Dewel
C2. Yekatit
C3. Girl From Addis Ababa
C4. Mascaram Setaba
C5. Ené Alantchie Alnorem
D1. Nétsanét
D2. Kasalefkut Hulu
D3. Wubit
D4. Lanchi Biye
D5. Tezeta

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