![]() It’s impossible to just pick out a few sounds to “represent” it it’s not divisible by anything less than its whole. Some of this material I was familiar with but much of it I wasn’t and I was marveling at how incredibly diverse the styles represented are here – I was amazed at the Latin influenced tunes here, there’s some beautiful, straight ahead-style vibe-heavy jazz, and other times, some dark, slinky funky stuff. Mulatu’s incredible experiments ran the gamut of incorporating all kinds of funk and soul elements but blended with the unique “exotic” (notice the scare quotes) sound of Ethiopian music with its non-Western scales and you get to hear those different styles all circulating on here. 1 but this new anthology really captures a diversity in his sound in a way I hadn’t heard before. Technically, most of the albums that introduced Mulatu to the rest of the world were “best ofs” – including the venerable Ethiopiques Vol. And while I don’t want to credit him with singlehandedly inventing Ethiojazz, he has been its main ambassador and along the way, become its most heralded apostle. Once you hear Mulatu’s music, you don’t readily forget it. I Frama Gami I Faram (w/ the Ethiopian Quartet)įrom New York – Addis – London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-76 (Strut, 2009) ![]()
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