"In recent years the band best attuned to [Astatke's] ancient-to-modern sensibility has been Melbourne's Black Jesus Experience, a collective of singers, rappers, and jazz improvisers of Moroccan, Zimbabwean, Maori, Ethiopian and Australian origins. On an old classic, Mulatu, the composer segues his glowing vibraphone sound into a bright trumpet theme and a floating drums/keys/wah-wah groove, before MC Mr Monk's driving political rap. Ambassa Lemdi, an Ethiopian traditional song that mesmerising vocalist Enushu Taye learned from her grandmother, is delivered by her in Amharic with tone bends and drifting lines of solemn wonderment ... The set feels like the band's more than the veteran master's (...) but To Know Without Knowing nonetheless confirms how brightly Mulatu Astatke's Ethio-jazz vision burns on".