Best known for his contributions to the best-selling Ethiopiques compilation series and the patronage of artists as diverse as Shackleton and Peanut Butter Wolf, Mulatu Astatke is a giant of modern music who first rose to prominence in the 60s, fusing Western jazz and funk with traditional Ethiopian folk melodies, five tone scale arrangements and elements from music of the ancient Coptic church. If you've not explored this guy's formidable back catalogue before, what on earth have you been doing?...
These are videos from concerts where Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics played, so they may be of other bands that played the concert as well.
The Big Chill Festival 2009 Aug 6 - 9, 2009 Eastnor, UK Added by Maf Daniel