Mulatta Records is a record label

Record label

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 established in 2000

2000 in music

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 by the Nigeria

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n record producer and DJ Ayo Osinibi and the American

United States

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 composer/performer Dave Soldier

Dave Soldier

Dave Soldier is an American composer and performer residing in New York.- Musical works :Some of his work is based on unusual collaborations. In the Thai Elephant Orchestra he built giant musical instruments on which he trained a group of elephants to improvise...

It specializes in music created by unusual means, including the Thai Elephant Orchestra

Thai Elephant Orchestra

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, and various projects by children, including 6 to 9 year olds who improvise avant-garde

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 jazz in The Tangerine Awkestra, and 5 to 10 year-olds in East Harlem who compose and play rap music in Da Hiphop Raskalz.

Other recordings include work by the Russia

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n conceptual artists Komar and Melamid

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, music written according to poll of American music taste, resulting in the statistically Most Wanted and Unwanted Songs, two CDs by writer Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

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, and Mandeng Eletrik, a collaboration between Wofa, tribal musicians from a village in Guinea

Guinea

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 that lacks electricity and running water, with American R&B musicians including Bernie Worrell

Bernie Worrell

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 and Will Calhoun

Will Calhoun

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