The father of Ethio-Jazz, the outstanding multi-instrumentalist and composer Mulatu Astatke will give two concerts in Poland in November! The musician will visit Warsaw's Palladium club on 6 February and Poznan's CK Zamek the day after.

Mulatu Astatke is one of the most outstanding musical personalities to come out of Ethiopia. The creator of Ethio-Jazz, a blend of Ethiopian traditional music and Latin jazz, studied at music colleges in London, Boston and New York in the 1960s and developed his unique style during this time, which he honed in the following decade through collaborations with artists such as Mahmoud Ahmed and Duke Ellington, among others.
Astatke's renewed interest in his work, in fact the greatest of his career, came with his 1998 album 'Éthiopiques Volume 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974'.

Soon after, the Ethiopian's work was used by Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, and his compositions were sampled by Kanye West, Nas, Damian Marley, Cut Chemist, Quantic, Madlib, Oddisee or Knaan.

Mulatu Astatke, who usually commands his band at concerts from behind the vibraphone and conga drums, will return to Poland for two exceptional concerts and charge us with positive, danceable energy!
MULATU ASTATKE