Thursday, May 14, 2009

Ethiopian Jazz on Display in London: Mulatu the Magnificent

Tadias Magazine
Tadias Staff

New York (Tadias) - One of the most anticipated music shows in London next week is Ethio-jazz inventor Mulatu Astatke’s collaboration with the Heliocentrics collective. “Even if the evening doesn’t live up to expectations, the Ethiopian bandleader’s new album is sure to make it onto my end-of-year-list of the best releases,” writes culture commentator Clive Davis on his Spectator blog.

Mulatu collaborates with Heliocentrics collective (VIDEO)


On his blog, Mr Davis also points out the amazing soundtrack of Jim
Jarmusch’s 2005 movie “Broken Flowers”, which featured Mulatu’s
music. Here is the video:

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