FREE GIVEAWAY FROM K7/STRUT posted by O.W.

Soul-Sides is giving away THREE copies of the new release by Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics courtesy of K7/Strut. Answer the three questions below for your chance to win. Many thanks to K7/Strut for the giveaways, and to you, our readers, for your continued support of Soul-Sides!

Even if you don't think you know all the answers, give it a shot. You can't win if you don't enter!

Contest Rules:

1. Contest ends at midnight on April 26, 2009. Entries that arrive after that time are ineligible.
2. Only US addresses are eligible. Sorry international readers!
3. Should there be more than three contestants with all correct answers, three names will be chosen in a drawing of those who answered correctly. Should less than three people answer correctly, then winners with all correct answers will automatically win with the remaining winners to be chosen by a random drawing.
4. Your first response is your official and final response.
5. You are only eligible to win one of the three CDs.

Questions:

1. Name the Ethiopian label for which Mulatu Astatke recorded many of his classics in the late 60s and 70s.
2. Collaborating with Mulatu on the new album are the Heliocentrics who are led by this drummer.
3. A song on the new album, Inspiration Information Vol. 3, is named after an instrument used by Ethiopian minstrels. Name that instrument.

E-mail your responses to elueckin AT hotmail.com and put Mulatu in the subject line.