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Following their award-winning collaboration with Ethio jazz Godfather Mulatu Astake (Mojo magazine Top 50 of the year 2009, Sunday Time World Album of the Year), pioneering UK collective The Heliocentrics resurfaces alongside another fascinating jazz enig

Strut continue their essential work with the godfather Of Ethio jazz, Mulatu Astatke, with the first official reissues of his early classics Afro Latin Soul Volumes 1 and 2 from 1966, recorded as The Ethiopian Quintet. Arriving after Astatke's life-changi

Groundbreaking Ethiopian bandleader Mulatu Astatke forges a new Ethio-jazz hybrid with The Heliocentrics (Now Again/Stones Throw Records). A brand new studio collaboration and the third in Strut's Inspiration Information series.

Greg Foat has become a versatile mainstay in UK jazz through an acclaimed series of albums on Jazzman and Athens Of The North, moving from soul-jazz workouts to library music to cinematic, haunting compositions and pastoral acid folk. Symphonie Pacifique

Strut kick off a brand new deal with the seminal independent black jazz and soul label Black Fire with African Rhythms 1970-1982, a comprehensive vinyl 3LP compilation of Oneness Of Juju, led by Plunky J. Branch. Tracing their career from the band's earli

Strut continue their essential work with the godfather Of Ethio jazz, Mulatu Astatke, with the first official reissues of his early classics Afro Latin Soul Volumes 1 and 2 from 1966, recorded as The Ethiopian Quintet. Arriving after Astatke's life-changi