Mulatu Astake is an Ethiopian jazz composer and sublime vibraphone player who studied in the States and came up around the same time as Bobby Hutcherson- the smooth American on the vibes. Mulatu was the first African student of music at Berklee and worked under Duke Ellington for some time, jealously guarding his ethiocentric sensibilities for his return home to soothe his politically unstable nation with lilting beauties like this
This song's name translates to mean "Nostalgia" and thus aims to evoke, remind. Softening time; some memories seemingly forgotten find themselves looked upon with fond sweetness, for the callous determinism of time/past simply doesn't apply to time travelers. Memories malleable and non-temporal are a place for subtlety and nuance, the subdued ecstasy of possibility presides over ephemeral reality -- Time and Space are much richer than even the mystical or ecstatic could have imagined.
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