If Joni Mitchell were East African and met Nina Simone for tea in San Francisco's Mission District, she might end up sounding like Meklit Hadero. Meklit is a true modern global artist: born in Ethiopia, raised in the US and nurtured for the last several years in San Francisco's richly diverse arts scene. Add in a warm and luminous singing voice and lyrical songwriting that moves from the starkly personal to the poetically metaphoric, and you have her entrancing debut full-length recording, "On a Day Like This...", to be released by Porto Franco Records in April 2010.
Personnel:
Meklit Hadero - vocals, acoustic guitar
David Boyce - bass clarinet, tenor and soprano saxophones
Todd Brown - electric guitar
Devin Hoff - upright bass
Darren Johnston - trumpet
Aaron Kierbel - drums, ladder/wall, shakers
Amber Lamprecht - oboe
Jeff Marrs - drums, clave
Eric Moffat - electric guitar and handclaps, snaps
Michael Parsons - piano
Charith Premawardhana - viola
Marcus Shelby - upright bass
Eliyahu Sills - upright bass and ney
Adam Young - cello
Brian Davis - electric piano
Engineered/mixed/mastered by Eric Moffat at Unsound Recording
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