Broken Flowers sndtk: Ethiopian Jazz rec some plz?
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Saw the film. Bought the soundtrack. Jarmusch is on the money.Loved the Mulatu Astatke[/b] tracks so I bought this re-issue 10". Great stuff.I know crap all about this genre. Is that Ethiopiques album a good place to start?I know some of you saw Mulatu when he toured over there. So any recommendations.
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and yes on that ethiopiques
get this as well (they have both been reissued, check dustygroove.com)
There's over 20 CD's in the Ethiopiques series.
also, the mulatu of ethiopia album, the 2 afro latin ones. there's a mulatu polish 80s album but i heard it wasn't that great. loads of 45s.
Great to discover another genre. Or I just need a push.
Will investigate.
20 in the series? Vol 4 here I come.
Yup vol. 4 is the one with tracks from "broken flowers"... should make you happy!
Ooh sounds very nice. Address is the same.
You need anything?
Yeah, I can still hear 'Yegelle Tezeta' in my head right now. Except instead of visualizing a bunch of Ethiopian jazz cats in a smokey bar, I have the image of Bill Murray driving around on US freeways...
Cultural misplacement no doubt.
I've had that Vol. 4 on regular rotation for about 10 years now. Maybe the best 15 bucks I've ever spent?
rightio ... unless you have a copy of Charlie Munro's Eastern Horizon's I'm cool - got to get to those 20 12" cuts you upped !!
I'll have to suss out if I can get Mahmoud Ahmed locally. Though Amazon looks to have them, except for the one pictured above.
I actually recall reading a review in SNC about this one...
Okay, I'm sold on Ethipoques Vol 4. Damn, it gets 5 stars from all the customers. & from here.
No Charlie Munro. I never see much Aussie jazz stuff around in my neighbourhood. ????
...and those 12" couldn't be any further from Ethiopian jazz if they tried. Good to have a wide taste. Ha ha!
damn lolita needed a shave too..looked like don king doing a handstand.
Because..?
Yeah, I really enjoyed this film. I'll admit I was a bit thrown off by the abrupt ending but in retrospect, I thought it was really well done and I look forward to seeing it again.
And I thought the Mulatu songs in the soundtrack complimented the minimal dialogue style nicely. I liked how it almost seemed like they structured a lot of the film around the music---or, with the music in mind.
But everyone's got their opinions, I guess. That's just mine.
damn, i need to hear this
plaese to elaborate
such an amazing album. it's been reissued on vinyl by some french label. also it's on ethipiopiques 7 in its entirety with bonus tracks that i need to hear.
go to toronto in a couple of months.
accepting donations for airfare from austin to toronto
no us dates?
Believe it or not, he has some competition here.
I have his first party here (with AMC W) on 3 cd's....and part of it's up on www.ducktape.ca if you're interested.
NExt Turning Point is this Saturday Jan 21st for those around.
Easy, Kevin in Toronto.
- spidey
, K.
i was also very disappointed with the film. i've seen everything that Jarmusch has ever put out (including some of the material which he included in Coffee & Cigarattes which was actually old footage), been a huge fan for a long time, have a certain soft spot for his work, the michigan connection and whatnot, etc.
but i thought that this last one was completely lacking. i have always dug his pacing, the slow pans, brilliant cinematography, but this film was a complete dud. no substance, bill murray's character was contrived and frankly, boring... it seemed to be a film more about the soundtrack than anything else, and i didn't think that even fit right.
thanks for the warning. had heard it was bunk, but not by someone who'd heard it.
i thought the l'arome one was a reprint of the crammed one? or are you saying it's much better in terms of sound quality?
did the mulatu of ethiopia get a u.s. release? it's not on amazon...is it in print still?
picked up ethiopiques vol 4 this weekend and it is ridiculously fucking good. so is volume 8 a good next move?