Name: Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta by theQuietus in Ethiopian Jazz
Duration: 3 min 14 s
Description: As sampled by Nas and Damian Marley on the new single ‘As We Enter’

my favourite tune at the moment, much better than nas&damian marley's rip off

Classic! Thankfully this tune and groove never gets old!

Ethiopian Jazz

Free Download: hopestreetrecordings.com/dawn

Artist: Emma Donovan & The PutBacks
Album: Dawn
Format: LP/CD/Digital
AU Release Date: Nov 7 2014
UK Release Date: Nov 10 2014
US Release Date: Nov 11 2014

Acclaimed indigenous vocalist Emma Donovan and Melbourne rhythm combo The PutBacks come together to bring you Dawn, an LP of hard hitting and heartfelt soul songs telling stories of grief, struggle and redemption. Dawn is a gritty, uniquely Australian record, simultaneously classic and contemporary. The songwriting is in turns optimistic, angry and melancholic, and on occasions bruisingly honest. The music is fluid, live and raw, recorded in one room on eight channels of analog tape and the electric connection between Emma and the band comes through in every beat.

Emma grew up singing church songs with her maternal grandparents on the North coast of New South Wales. Her first secular gigs were singing in The Donovans, a band comprised of her mother and five uncles. With her mother, Emma sang country for years, and in her youth was a fixture at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, but she always yearned for the bluesier tones of her Father’s record collection, full of American artists like Laverne Baker and Etta James and Indigenous Australian artists like No Fixed Address and Archie Roach.

Years later, after touring and recording with many of the mainstays of Indigenous music and developing as a solo artist in her own right, Emma met members of The PutBacks, and finally she found a band with the gritty blues soaked tones she had been looking for. She also found, in PutBacks bassist Mick Meagher, a co-writer and collaborator on the the soul songs she had been waiting a lifetime to write and sing. The results are well worth the wait and hopefully, only mark the beginning of this oh-so-right collaboration.

Buy Vinyl/CD/Digital

Emma Donovan & The PutBacks - My Goodness

A track from Mulatu Astatke's forthcoming album <i>Mulatu Steps Ahead</i>, out on March 29th 2010

Mulatu Astatke - Green Africa

As sampled by Nas and Damian Marley on the new single ‘As We Enter’

Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta

Most fans of the blues believe it was born in the Mississippi delta shortly before 1900. They are definitevely wrong.The blues had its roots in other forms of older black music that are traced to the music of West Africa. In that sense, Mali music constituting the DNA of the blues and the griots can be identified as the direct ancestors of the rural bluesmen.Baba Sissoko is from Mali and he is the last undisputed griot alive.His voice evokes the lost vibe of the deepest and wildest side of west Africa. A magic land that he largely crossed since his childhood in singing and playing with his legendary grandfather Djeli Baba Sissoko. 

With the help of the soulful voices of Djeli Mah  Damba Koroba  and Djana Sissoko, respectively his 78 y.o. mother and his young daughter he recorded  “Three Gees”.

They are the voices of the past, the present and the future living in the twilight zone where the malian roots blooms into a new sound of hope and happiness.

Involved are also Fernando "Bugaloo" Velez on percussions and the grammy winner Corey Harris on slide guitar.

Somebody called it as Bambara Mystic Soul, we dig it and really hope you enjoy listening this album as much as we have enjoyed making it.




Three Gees

Aiulado

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Baba Sissoko - Aiulado

vinyl 45 release on march 4th 2016. limited edition to 300 copies. 

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Magdy el Hossainy - Music De Carnaval

Kenya Special : Volume Two is available to pre order on Soundway Records now. 

Direct: http://smarturl.it/KenyaSpecial2Direct
Digital: http://smarturl.it/KenyaSpecial2

Lulus Band - I Can Feel It

https://alogteohoandhissoundsofjoy.bandcamp.com/album/mam-yinne-wa

Alogte Oho And His Sounds Of Joy - Mam Yinne Wa

Afro Latin Soul

Mulatu Astatke-  Playboy Cha cha

Re-edit from Cabana Disco vol.06 12", which will be released in Spring 2012.

Ritual Dance

Akalé Wubé songs from the album "Mata" available for streaming.

Mata

The Cinematic Orchestra - Ode To The Big Sea

Mulatu Astatke's "Yekermo Sew"

Available on Analog Africa No.13 - The Skeletal Essences of Afro Funk
Release date: April 30th

Min We Tun So

Willie Wright - Right On For The Darkness

Mulatu Astatke - Yèkèrmo Sèw (Nicolas Jaar Edit)

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