I was in Dubai recently, working on a documentary, and on the way back to Cape Town I visited Ethiopia to see some friends and experience some of the Ethio-jazz music I had fallen in love with ever since I first heard Mulatu Astatke and the “Ethiopiques” compilations. Even though I had high hopes, Ethiopia […]
The Ethiopian jazz master has a new album. This is the first single. Maybe this is his blueprint for carbon emissions. Via The Fader.
The Economist has a great little story on the revival of local jazz–including musicians like Mulatu Astatke (in the video above with the Heliocentrics in London)–a tradition that dates back to the 1920s when “… when Armenian orphans from the massacres in Turkey were adopted by Ethiopia’s imperial court and formed a band called Arba […]
