Mulatu AstatkeBest Mulatu Astatke Albums Ranked
7.8
Avg Score
4
Opinions
6
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 4 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Mulatu Astatke’s catalog across 6 albums from 4 opinions, with an overall average of 7.8/10. The top-rated Mulatu Astatke album is Mulatu of Ethiopia (2017) with a 8.7/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Mulatu Steps Ahead (Bonus Track Version) and Mulatu Plays Mulatu. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2010 to 2025.
Mulatu of Ethiopia
“This groundbreaking and newly-reissued 1972 album is an excellent introduction to Mulatu Astatke, the inventor and sole exemplar of Ethio-jazz.”
Mulatu Steps Ahead (Bonus Track Version)
“The veteran Ethiopian bandleader works with Heliocentrics and Boston's Either/Orchestra to craft a loose and improvisational winner.”
To Know Without Knowing
“Like many great jazz originals liberated by the idiom’s openness to all manner of borrowings and hybrids, the Ethiopian multi-instrumentalist and composer Mulatu Astatke created a new sound by unlikely alchemy – between the Latin grooves and jazz-rock wah-wah guitars he heard as a student in the States in the 60s, and the wide-interval modes and fluid rhythms of his homeland’s ancient traditions. ”