Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics (from the drummer sampled by Madlib & Yesterdays New Quintet & the band that backed DJ Shadow) again live in Berlin. Digital in Berlin highly Recommended.
[audio:Mulatu Astatke_the_Heliocentrics – Mulatu.mp3]Mulatu Astatke is an Ethiopian musician and arranger. He is known as the father of Ethio-jazz. Born in 1943 in the western Ethiopian city of Jimma, Mulatu was musically trained in London, New York City, and Boston, where he was the first African student at Berklee College of Music. He would later combine his jazz and Latin music influences with traditional Ethiopian music.
“Malcolm Catto’s band turns traditional funk on its head with his syncopated drums tying up ’60s psychedelia and free jazz into chaos-on-the-one.”
URB Magazine
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics Interview
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=GixmYy6Ytnw
Good luck trying to categorize their music. Led by the relentless drummer Malcolm Catto, the UK collective’s objective lays quite a ways beyond what ordinary listeners know or expect. In an alternative galaxy, where the orbits of Hip-Hop, Funk, Jazz, Psychedelic, Electronic, Avante-Garde and Ethnic music all revolve around “The One” – that’s where you might find The Heliocentrics.
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MULATU ASTATKE & The Heliocentrics
Volksbühne | Linienstraße 227 | 10178 Berlin/Mitte
Sunday, 31.10.2010 | 20:00 CET
http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de | Map | http://www.ethiojazz.com
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