Astatke's music was used in the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: ...
When most folks think of Ethiopian music they hear the slithering soul-funk sounds created by artists like Mahmoud Ahmed or Tilahun Gessesse—killer singers who delivered Amharic-language jams with ...