Mulatu Astatke featuring Fekade Amde Maskal - Ethio Jazz Artist_Christopher Young

Mulatu Astatke featuring Fekade Amde Maskal - Ethio Jazz Artist_Christopher YoungIf you want to listen to Muratu, this is the first! The most important album in the history of Ethio jazz, making it a masterpiece that should be called Muratu's career masterpiece! Released by Amha Records in Ethiopia in 1974 after returning from the United States, the name is Zubari "Ethiopia Jazz". It is a masterpiece that continues to shine as a milestone not only in Muratu's career but also in the history of contemporary Ethiopian music. Ethnic

in an Atlantic sleeve

Mastered for vinyl from audio from the original analogue tapes by Simon Francis

* 4LP Includes 48 page A4 size deluxe booklet

alongside the up-beat and sun-drenched reverberations of ‘Dreaming Es Verda’ and ‘Tell Me When’

An extension and deepening of the musical ideas first expressed on 2012's critically-lauded Oshin

If he's not robbing banks with baseball bats

and dynamic synth soundtrack album that is heavily inspired by the synth wave soundtracks of 80’s action and horror films

with minor incursions into jazz and hints of protoprog

I didn’t want to mock the religious impulse

“We don’t want this music to die”

Even at a slow

All the artworks are done by Tomoko Oshima