MULATU ASTATKE - Mulatu Plays Mulatu LP Dub theatre and film music

theatre and film music

director of the ethno-afrobeat ensemble Dorado Kandua

Every song holds a piece of a shattered mirror and what emerges is a prismatic

" The inspiration for the concept of the album also came from David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

"Imber & Tyneham" compares and contrasts two villages taken over and claimed by the MOD during WWII - one still actively used by the military for combat training on the Salisbury Plain

MULATU ASTATKE - Mulatu Plays Mulatu LP Dub theatre and film musicStrut 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,