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Uri Green's remix of Safari Ya Muziki by Onipa (featuring The Zawose Queens) from the EP We No Be Machine: Rewired

Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Plays Mulatu - glorious sound on this new studio album with contributions from Dexter Story and Carlos Niño

Strut presents Mulatu Plays Mulatu, the first major studio album in over 10 years from the father of Ethio-jazz, Mulatu Astatke. Featuring masterful new arrangements of some of his classic compositions, Mulatu Plays Mulatu finds Mulatu revisiting the sounds that helped to change the face of Ethiopian music during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. The album was recorded between London and Addis Ababa, working with his long-standing UK band, a tight, intuitive ensemble honed through years of live performance, alongside cultural musicians resident at his Jazz Village club in Addis. Mulatu Plays Mulatu realises Mulatu’s long-term vision of Ethio-jazz, intricately balancing Western jazz arrangements with the rich sounds of traditional Ethiopian instruments including the krar, masenqo, washint, kebero and begena. Throughout the album, he reshapes familiar material with rich textures, expanded improvisations and a deepened rhythmic complexity, creating a body of work that feels as vital and contemporary as it does steeped in tradition. Familiar compositions like ‘Yekermo Sew’, ‘Netsanet’ and the celebratory ‘Kulun’ are reinvented here as elegant big band performances. “Ethio-jazz brings us together and makes us one,” explains Mulatu. “This album is the culmination of my work bringing this music to the world and pays respect to our unsung heroes, the original musical scientists in Ethiopia who gave us our cultural music.” Bridging continents and generations throughout his 50-year career, Astatke now offers us an invitation to hear his music again, with a completely fresh perspective. Ethio-jazz, like its creator, is always in motion. Mulatu Plays Mulatu was produced by Dexter Story and features contemporary artists LA-based artists Carlos Niño and Kibrom Birhane. The album was recorded and mixed by Isabel Gracefield at RAK Studios in London and by Dexter Story in Addis. The inspired album artwork was created by acclaimed Oslo-based Ethiopian artist, Wendimagegn Belete with photography by Alexis Maryon.

#Bandcamp #Mulatu Astatke #ethio-jazz #jazz #dexter story #carlos nino #2025 #strut records

Eddie Okwedy - Happy Survival (Nigeria 70 - Lagos Jump)

#eddie okwedy #happy survival #nigeria #lagos #african music #afrobeat #funk #jazz #soulful #strut records #african #afro funk #highlife #somethin' good #gottahavesoul

(via Tony Allen & Jimi Tenor : Inspiration Information 4 : Aquarium Drunkard)

#Tony Allen #Jimi Tenor #Strut Records #Nigeria #Africa #Finland

Top reissues & compilations of 2021

The Same - Sync or Swim (Freedom To Spend)

Sync or Swim by The Same

Tangled Shoelaces - Turn My Dial - The M Squared Recordings and more, 1981-84 (Chapter Music)

Turn My Dial - The M Squared Recordings and more, 1981-84 by Tangled Shoelaces

Kurious - A Constipated Monkey (90s Tapes)

A Constipated Monkey by Kurious

Pylon - Chomp (New West Records)

Chomp by Pylon

Abner Jay - I Don't Have Time To Lie To You (Mississippi Records)

I Don't Have Time To Lie To You by Abner Jay

Linda Smith - Till Another Time: 1988-1996 (Captured Tracks)

Till Another Time: 1988-1996 by Linda Smith

Muziekkamer - Op Zee (Stroom)

Op Zee by Muziekkamer

VA - The Paths Of Pain (The CAIFE Label, Quito, 1960-68) (Honest Jon's Records)

The Paths Of Pain (The CAIFE Label, Quito, 1960-68) by Mendoza Suasti

VA – A Heart In Splinters (More From The CAIFE Label, Quito, 1960-68) (Honest Jon's Records)

A Heart In Splinters (More From The CAIFE Label, Quito, 1960-68) by Gladys Viera

Bogdan Raczynski - Muzyka Dla Imigrantów (Mondoj)

Muzyka Dla Imigrantów by Bogdan Raczynski

MC Solaar - Prose Combat (Polydor)

Sun Ra - Lanquidity (Strut)

Lanquidity by Sun Ra

White Light / Jo Bogaert - Whale (Stroom)

Whale by White Light

Sylvia – Sweet Stuff (Wewantsounds)

VA – Longing for the Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939 (Death Is Not The End)

Longing for the Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939 by Seki Taneko

Rachel Reviews: Onipa - We No Be Machine

Rachel Reviews: Onipa – We No Be Machine

I’m glad I discovered this album. Browsing through the various artists on Bandcamp, Onipa caught my attention. I was drawn by the artwork but more so the name of the group.

‘Onipa’translates to ‘human’ in the ancient Ashanti dialect, Akan. Being Ghanaian, I was intrigued by what the album had to offer. Groovy, electronic, Afro-futurism and fire are some of the themes used to define the music…

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