The third in Strut�s Inspiration Information studio collaboration series brings together an intriguing pairing between one of Africa�s great bandleaders, Mulatu Astatke, with the next level musicianship of The Heliocentrics collective from the mighty roster of Stones Throw / Now Again. --- Known primarily through the successful �Ethiopiques� album series and the film soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch�s �Broken Flowers�, Mulatu Astatke is one of Ethiopia�s foremost musical ambassadors. his selfstyled Ethio-jazz sound flourished during the �Swinging Addis� era of the late �60s as he successfully fused Western jazz and funk with traditional Ethiopian folk melodies. --- The Heliocentrics have become known as one of the UK�s foremost free-thinking collectives of musicians, inspired by a wide palette covering Sun Ra, James Brown, David Axelrod and all manner of psych, Afro and Eastern sounds. The collective have featured on records by Madlib and DJ Shadow. Now a fixture within the Stones Throw / Now Again roster, they forged their own genre-breaking directions in the astral analogue groove on their 2007 debut album, �Out There�.