Mulatu Astatke - New York - Addis - London - The Story Of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached a global audience and a new, younger generation of fans. In November of last year, he recorded an inspired

an album clicks on its run-out groove

Technical:Format: Vinyl LPLabel: VertigoCatalogue Number: 0602547321164Release Year: 1984Reissue Year: 2016Genre: Thrash Metal / Metal

Recorded quickly between John Cale producing Patti Smith's Horses and his going out on an Italian tour

the album was written by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory and recorded at their own studio deep in the English countryside

a Saharan mountain range between north-eastern Mali and southern Algeria

 Strange Relationship (not released until 1987 on his critically acclaimed Sign O’ The Times album)

barbed-wire blues battling for the future of the planet

Ginger Baker

E says: “These songs came about just before the pandemic hit and changed everything

but what a body of work to leave behind – diminutive in the best possible way

more than just psychedelic

The centrepiece of the record is Pimp Rex (AKA Rex Roland)