MULATU ASTATKE AND BLACK JESUS EXPERIANCE - TO KNOW WITHOUT KNOWING VINYL SOUL JAZZ RECORDS 1992 US LP

1992 US LP

OS INGENOS - GAROTINHA TEIMOSA

D1            –Super Djata Band de Bamako      Mali Ni Woula      8:16

Scott Engel (later of The Walker Brothers)

MULATU ASTATKE AND BLACK JESUS EXPERIANCE - TO KNOW WITHOUT KNOWING VINYL SOUL JAZZ RECORDS 1992 US LPLike many great jazz originals liberated by the idiom's openness to all manner of borrowings and hybrids, the Ethiopian multi instrumentalist and composer Mulatu Astatke created a new sound by unlikely alchemy between the Latin grooves and jazz rock wah wah guitars he heard as a student in the States in the 60s, and the wide interval modes and fluid rhythms of his homeland's ancient traditions. Astatke's seductive Ethio jazz fusions have made him a