![]() ![]() This comes from the years after Astatke graduated Berklee and before he had returned home to pre-junta Ethiopia to change the course of African pop and jazz music. More to the point I was disappointed, because I'd gone deep into some of those Ethiopiques compilations and found them all incredible - especially some of the Astatke tracks. Not meant to really provoke or do anything other than soundtrack a faux-classy mise-en-scene. Bland, ponderous instrumental music whose pleasantness was sophorific and smothering. I spent a lot of time in my office using the cups/spoons there.Įssentially it sounded like lift music. ![]() I was probably doing the dishes at the time, which I seemed to do quite a lot considering i. Oh I've bought a shit album is what I remember saying to myself in my galley kitchen in the little flat I rented above a hairdressers. The first time I put this on I really didn't like it. ![]()
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