Mulatu Plays Mulatu (2025)

"After studying vibraphone and percussion at Berklee in Boston, Astatke moved back to Addis Abada at the end of the 1960s to create his own musical fusion. It utilised the four pentatonic modes he had grown up with alongside the structures he had learnt in America. He brought in vibraphone, keyboards, effects pedals, congas and bongos to produce Latin rhythms while also using traditional Ethiopian instruments in new ways, including the krar (lyre), masenqo (one string fiddle) and washint (penny whistle). It is this combination of the familiar with the unexpected that makes his music so rich and instantly appealing. "Mulatu Plays Mulatu" is his first major studio album in ten years and is recorded between London and Addis Abada. It features his longstanding English band together with musicians from Addis and sees him revisiting tracks from his career, giving them new arrangements, extended improvisations and heightened rhythmic complexity. Over the course of 11 tracks, it weaves a relaxed magic." (Silentradio)

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