MULATU ASTATKE - Mulatu of Ethiopia LP Gutschein vocals recorded by Kevin Conway

vocals recorded by Kevin Conway July 2018

Tons of tape delays / field recordings and electronic manipulations

Thematically the album reaches into the prisons of solitary confinement and pulls out plucky dreamers and battle-bruised fighters

He investigated the relationship between sound and light

almost half of the Ornament & Verbrechen musicians had left the country

MULATU ASTATKE - Mulatu of Ethiopia LP Gutschein vocals recorded by Kevin ConwayStrut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of African music, Mulatu Astatkes Mulatu Of Ethiopia from 1972. Recorded in New York, the album arrived at a time when Astatke had begun to master the delicate fusion of styles needed to create Ethio jazz. I left the UK for America and studied at Berklee College in Boston. I learnt the technical aspects of jazz and gained a beautiful understanding of many different types of