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STRUT040LP
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2x Vinyl LP Album Repress
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Nov 1, 2019
Styles
The third in Strut’s Inspiration Information studio collaboration series brings together an intriguing pairing between one of Africa’s great bandleaders, Mulatu Astatke, with the next level musicianship of The Heliocentrics collective from the mighty roster of Stones Throw / Now Again.
Known primarily through the successful ‘Ethiopiques’ album series and the film soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Broken Flowers’, Mulatu Astatke is one of Ethiopia’s foremost musical ambassadors. Informed by spells living and studying in the UK and the USA, his self-styled Ethio-jazz sound flourished during the “Swinging Addis” era of the late ‘60s as he successfully fused Western jazz and funk with traditional Ethiopian folk melodies, five tone scale arrangements and elements from music of the ancient Coptic church.
The Heliocentrics have become known as one of the UK’s foremost free-thinking collectives of musicians, inspired by a wide palette covering Sun Ra, James Brown, David Axelrod and all manner of psych, Afro and Eastern sounds. Now a fixture within the Stones Throw / Now Again roster, they forged their own genre-breaking directions in the astral analogue groove on their 2007 debut album, ‘Out There’.
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A1
Mulatu Astatke - Masenqo
6:26
A2
Mulatu Astatke - Cha Cha
5:27
A3
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu
3:31
B1
Mulatu Astatke - Addis Black Widow
3:44
B2
Mulatu Astatke - Fire In The Zoo
3:52
B3
Mulatu Astatke - Dewel
5:35
B4
Mulatu Astatke - Blue Nile
3:18
C1
Mulatu Astatke - Esketa Dance
4:08
C2
Mulatu Astatke - Chik Chikka
5:13
C3
Mulatu Astatke - Live From Tigre Lounge
2:56
C4
Mulatu Astatke - Chinese New Year
3:45
D1
Mulatu Astatke - An Epic Story
5:14
D2
Mulatu Astatke - Phantom Of The Panther
2:21
D3
Mulatu Astatke - Anglo Ethio Suite
9:54
Wax Museum Records
250 Flinders St (downstairs)
Melbourne Vic 3000
+61451216310