Track one, "Yekeme Sew" (which translates as a man of experience and wisdom), recorded in 1969, is, like much of Astatqe's music, trippy and unpredictablea hard bop head-charge, stated conventionally enough by tenor saxophone and trumpet, which is then exploded by raucous, heavily distorted electric guitar and Fender Rhodes solosyet it's all still essentially out of America. If Pharoah Sanders' Tauhid (Impulse!, 1967) was an adventurous and mostly successful attempt at jazz-Egyptology, Astatqe's music is reverse process Ethiopised-jazz. Arranged chronologically, the collection tracks Astatqe's journey from recalibrations of US styles to creating something new and singular. The disc is compiled from two LPs Astatqe released in Ethiopia in the years immediately following his return from the US Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits (AELP, 1972) and Yekatit: Ethio Jazz (AELP, 1974). Returning to Addis Ababa at the end of the decade, he added the magic ingredient which takes his music beyond fusion and gives it a character wholly its own: traditional Ethiopian tonality, with its powerful sense of "otherness." These were all artists whom Astatqe, born 1943, was exposed to in the 1960s, when he studied at music colleges in London, Boston and New York. Electric guitar by way of Larry Coryell electric keyboards evoking trumpeter Miles Davis' In A Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) the blissed-out acoustic piano of Alice Coltrane on her albums A Monastic Trio (Impulse!, 1968) and Ptah, The El Daoud (Impulse!, 1970) the early world-music peregrinations of saxophonists John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders a little hard bop out of the school of pianist Horace Silver and occasional blasts of singer James Brown's horn section.
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The album is collection of material recorded by Astatqe in Addis Ababa from 1969-74, and it is very much of its counter and cross-cultural times. It's a bewitching sound, and if you see the movie, it will leap out at you. They are the brooding, spectral, groove-based tunes which keep actor Bill Murray company as he drives across America in search of old girlfriends.
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Ethiopiques 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique InstrumentaleĪn idiosyncratic amalgam of late 1960s/early 1970s US jazz and jazz-rock refracted through the prism of Ethiopian five-tone scales and harmonies, the early work of composer, keyboardist and bandleader Mulatu Astatqe, the godfather of Ethiopian jazz, has finally edged its way onto the world stageor more accurately, the celluloid screen.įollowing a chance encounter with Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, movie director Jim Jarmusch included three of the album's tracks on the soundtrack of his 2005 release Broken Flowers.