AFRO-LATIN SOUL 9/07/2018 and angelic vocals -- arrived

and angelic vocals -- arrived fully formed

THINGS FALL APART was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album

when the rap industry really gathered steam

who also provided the original song "Can't Stop the Feeling

Henry Lewy

AFRO-LATIN SOUL 9/07/2018 and angelic vocals -- arrivedThis 1966 LP by Astatke (billed to Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet) isn't shaded by nearly as much African Ethiopian influence as his best work, which was recorded between the late '60s and mid '70s. As the title might lead you to believe, it is indeed more in the Latin soul jazz bag than the later material, sometimes leaning toward the R&B informed boogaloo sound of the mid '60s. It's not bad at all, though, even if it is more conventional