On a Day Like This... (Meklit Hadero)
StreetDate: 04/20/2010 (PFR015)
—— Tracklist ——
1 Walk Up  (5:34)
2 Float and Fall  (3:30)
3 Leaving Soon  (4:11)
4 You and the Rain  (4:32)
5 Feeling Good  
6 Abbay Mado  (5:05)
7 Soleil Soleil  (2:33)
8 Call  (4:02)
9 Walls  (3:40)
10 Under  (4:24)
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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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Meklit Hadero on Tell Me More - NPR with Allison Keyes ~Download
 Live: 03/24/2010 (17.53)
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 Live: 10/29/2009 (2:00:00)
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