Mulatu Astatke (born December 19, 1943, surnames are sometimes spelled AstatqÃÆ' Â © in the French-language release, and ?????? in Amharic origin) is an Ethiopian musician and arranger known as the father of Ethio-jazz.
Born in Jimma town, western Ethiopia, Mulatu was trained in music in London, New York City and Boston where he combined jazz and Latin music with traditional Ethiopian music. Astatke leads his band while playing vibraphone and drum conga - the instrument he introduced into Ethiopian popular music - as well as percussion instruments, keyboards and other organs. His album focused mainly on instrumental music, and Astatke appeared on all three known instrument albums released during the 1970s in Ethiopia.
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Careers
Initial years
The Astatke family sent a young Mulatu to study engineering in Wales during the late 1950s. Instead, he began his education at Lindisfarne College near Wrexham before earning a degree in music through a study at Trinity College of Music in London. He collaborated with jazz vocalist and percussionist Frank Holder. In 1960, Astatke moved to the United States, where he became the first student from Africa to enroll at Berklee College of Music in Boston. There, he studied vibraphone and percussion.
While living in the US, Astatke became interested in Latin jazz and recorded his first two albums, Afro-Latin Soul, Volume 1 & amp; 2 , in New York City in 1966. The notes prominently display the astatke vibrafone, supported by piano and conga drums that play a Latin rhythm, and are fully instrumental, with the exception of the song "I Faram Gami I Faram," which is sung in Spanish. Although these recordings are almost indistinguishable from other Latin-Latin records of the time, some songs describe elements of Astatke's later work, and he is credited as a drummer of conga and bongo as a common element in popular music Ethiopia.
In the early 1970s, Astatke brought his new voice, which he called Ethio-jazz, back to his homeland while continuing to work in the US. He collaborated with many well-known artists in both countries, organizing and playing on recordings by Mahmoud Ahmed, and performing as a special guest with Duke Ellington and his band during the Ethiopian tour in 1973.
During this time, Astatke recorded another album in New York, Mulatu of Ethiopia (1972). Meanwhile, most of the recording material was released on Amalia's label Amha EshÃÆ'¨tÃÆ' Ã… © 's Eponymous in Addis Ababa, which released several singles of Mulatu Astatke along with her 1974 album Yosiit Ethio Jazz, and six from 10 songs that year Ethiopian Modern Instrumentals Hits compilation . Yekatit Ethio Jazz is the only record released in Ethiopia produced as an album in itself, not just a single compilation. The album is a powerful example of Astatke's fluidity and skill in creating a hybrid of music composed of traditional Ethiopian music and American jazz, funk and soul.
Notes Astatke appeared simultaneously with releases by renowned Ethiopian vocalist Mahmoud Ahmed, Tlahoun GÃÆ'¨ssÃÆ'¨ssÃÆ'¨, AlÃÆ'¨mayÃÆ'¨hu EshÃÆ'¨tÃÆ'Â ©, and others, all his music was influenced by the American jazz infusions and the Latin instrumentation Astatke brought to Ethiopia.
In 1975, Amha Records had ceased production after the Derg military junta forced label owners and many other Etio-jazz figures to flee the country. Astatke stuck long enough to play a thrill for Hailu Mergia and the 1977 band Walias Band Tche Belew (which features original music of "Musicawi Silt") before Wallas also left Ethiopia for an international tour. But in the 1980s, Astatke music was largely forgotten outside its homeland.
Recent work
In the early 1990s, many record collectors have rediscovered the music of Mulatu Astatke and combed vinyl deposits for copies of their 70th release. In 1998, the record label of Paris Buda Musique began re-publishing many Amha-era amulets on compact discs as part of the series of thiopiques, and the first of these republics to be dedicated to the artist single is ÃÆ' â € ° thiopiques Volume 4: Ethio Jazz & amp; Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974, Mulatna Astatke . The album brought Astatke music to new international audiences, perhaps the biggest in his career.
Astatke music also has an influence on the work of other artists from the Horn region, such as K'naan. His growing Western audience when Jim Jarmusch 2005
After meeting Orcestra, based in Massachusetts in Addis Ababa in 2004, Mulatu started a collaboration with the band that started with performances in Scandinavia in the summer of 2006 and London, New York, Germany, The Netherlands, Glastonbury (England), Dublin and Toronto in 2008 In the fall of 2008, he collaborated with London-based collective psyche-jazz, The Heliocentrics, on the album Inspiration Information Vol. 3 , which included the re-working of his earlier Ethio-jazz classics with new material by Heliocentrics and himself.
In 2008, Mulatu completed the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, where he worked on the modernization of traditional Ethiopian instruments and aired a portion of the new opera, The Yared Opera. Mulatu also serves as Artist-in-Residence Abramowitz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivering lectures and workshops, and advising the MIT Media Lab to create modern versions of the traditional, Ethiopian instruments of krar.
On February 1, 2009, Mulatti Astatke performed at Luckman Auditorium in Los Angeles with bands including famous jazz musicians such as Bennie Maupin, Azar Lawrence, and Phil Ranelin. Mulatu also released a set of two disks for sale exclusively to Ethiopian Airlines passengers, with the first discs being a compilation of various styles from different regions of Ethiopia and the second is the original studio. On May 12, 2012, Mulatu received an honorary doctorate degree from Berklee College of Music.
In 2015 Astatke began recording with the old collaborator Black Jesus Experience for what would become the Cradle of Humanity album. Cradle of Humanity aired at the Melbourne Jazz Festival in 2016 and followed by a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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Discography selected
As a city
- Maskaram Setaba 7 "(1966, Addis Ababa Records, USA)
- Afro-Latin Soul, Volume 1 (1966, Eligible Archive, USA)
- Afro-Latin Soul, Volume 2 (1966, Eligible Archive, USA)
- Mulat from Ethiopia LP (1972, Decent Archive, USA)
- Yekatit Ethio Jazz LP (1974, Amha Records, Ethiopia)
- Playing Ethio Jazz LP (1989, Poljazz, Poland)
- From New York City to Addis Ababa: The Best of Astatke's Mulat
- Mulatu Astatke
- Assiyo Bellema
- ÃÆ' â € ° thiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & amp; Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974 CD (1998, Buda Musique, France)
- Mulatu Steps Ahead with CD Either/Orkestra/2xLP (2010, Strut, Germany)
- Ethiopian Sketches Vinyl, LP (2013, Jazz Village, France)
As a musician and collaborator
- Tche Belew with Hailu Mergia & amp; The Walias Band (1977, Kaifa Records, Ethiopia)
- Inspiration Information with The Heliocentrics (2009)
- Cradle of Humanity with the Black Jesus Experience (2016)
Compiled view
- Ethiopian Modern Instrumentals Hits LP (1974, Amha Records, Ethiopia)
- New York-Addis-London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975
- Rough's Guide to Music of Ethiopia (2004, World Music Network)
- Music from Damaged Flowers Soundtrack (Decca Recording 2005)
External links
- Mulatu Astatke Step forward album album
- Mulatu Astatke: Ethio Jazz
- Berklee Highlights: echoes in Africa
- Either an orchestra show with Mulatu Astatke
- A piece of the second glorious article in Ha'aretz.
- Interview with Mulatu Astatke
- Mulat Astatke RBMA lecture
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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