Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Plays Mulatu Vertigo Fleischer’s blogging about the album

Fleischer’s blogging about the album brought it to the attention of cult musician Ariel Pink

Has won 16 Grammy Awards

The new evolution of the reggae beat was created by the rapid-fire of hard rhythms

Released: 2018-09-12

Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Plays Mulatu Vertigo Fleischer’s blogging about the albumMulatu Astatke (Amharic: ; also written Astatq on French releases) is arguably one of the most influential and legendary musicians from Ethiopia. During the 1960s, he studied music abroad in London, Boston, and New York. He then returned home to Ethiopia armed with a love for jazz and Latin music. There he blended Ethiopian traditional music with the Latin jazz he was so fond of to create a unique hybrid he called Ethio jazz. Mulatu Astatke is first