Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics- Live @ Jazz à La Villette 01/09/2011 [VIDEO]

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Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics- Live @ Jazz à La Villette 01/09/2011 

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           In 2005, thanks to Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, the name of Mulatu Astatke finally came out of the small circle of aficionados of Ethiopian music. A 65 years ago, the father of Ethio-jazz then found a new audience ready to taste the unique rhythm of his music. Behind his vibraphone and percussion, Astatke signs unconventional jazz, steeped in Latino sounds, instrumental soul, Ethiopian folk music, where brass and percussion converse in a new way. At home, the samba is shifted, jazz borrows often tortuous spicy funky. 

       Beside him on stage, we note the presence of Heliocentrics saxophonist James Arben, Danny Keane on cello, also part of the project with the Heliocentrics Mulatu and heard alongside Gorillaz, and that of Alexander Hawkins, young British pianist already spotted by the BBC.

Mulatu Astatke (vibraphone, congas), 

James Arben (saxophone, flute), 

Byron Wallen (trumpet), 

Danny Keane (cello), 

Alexander Hawkins (piano, keyboards), 

Liran Donin (bass), 

Richard Olatunde Baker (percussions), 

David De Rose (drums)