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Ethio Blue

by Meklit

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Antidote 03:46
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Everyday heartbreak Everyday love Everyday kindness Remember your mother Everyday pressure Everyday pain Everyone striving To find home again Antidote, antidote, antidote Take the power from the poison Remind them of what is inside them Courageous ones, we have enough For all of us at the table Everyday dreaming Everyday songs Everyday pushing We keep keeping on Everyday passage Everyday bread You yourself are an offer Turn the world on it’s head Antidote, antidote, antidote Take the power from the poison Remind them of what is inside them Courageous ones, we have enough For all of us at the table Everyday water Everyday spin Everyday sunrise More oxygen Everyday lifting Everyday peace You are my survival You are my relief Antidote, antidote, antidote Take the power from the poison Remind them of what is inside them Courageous ones, we have enough For all of us at the table You are the antidote You are the antidote You are the antidote You are the antidote You are the antidote You are the antidote You are the antidote You are the antidote
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Ethio Blue 03:46
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TRANSATLANTIC RIVERS RUN CURRENTS PUSHED US PAST THE SUN MUSIC PULSED AND BEAT AND FLEW THE MUSIC BLEEDS ETHIO BLUE PENTATONIC DNA FILLED OUR VEINS AND MADE US THIS WAY MUSIC LIVED BETWEEN US TWO IT’S POWER SWEET ETHIO BLUE AND THIS KIND OF HALLELUJAH JUMPS OUT OF ME I SAY THANK YOU GOD FOR THE MUSIC YOU KNOW IT CAME FROM SO MUCH LIFE FROM CALLOUSED HANDS THAT PLAYED INSTRUMENTS WHEN THEY WERE DONE WITH THE SOIL FOR THE DAY AND THE SHEPPARDS PLAYING FLUTE FOR THEIR ANIMALS THE WOMEN WITH THEIR BANJOES GIVING SUSTENANCE TO EACH OTHER WITH THEIR MELODIES WE STILL HEAR YOU, WE STILL HEAR YOU WE ARE LISTENING BROWN SKIN LOVE, INCLUDING SCARS CELL BY CELL DISTILLED FROM STARS MUSIC ROSE AND BLOOMED AND GREW AND NOW IT’S OURS ETHIO BLUE
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Digging For Love 03:24
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I don’t care about I don’t care about perfection. I don’t care about I don’t care about who’s to blame. All I want to see Is that we trying to get free. My heart is yours A thousand open doors And a million keys We’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging for love Yeah we’re digging for love Yeah we’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging for love Yeah we’re digging for love I don’t care about I don’t care about Who is right I don’t care about I don’t care about Winning flights All I want to see Is that we deep in this journey We sway unrushed On waves of trust So big, they can fill the sea We’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging for love Yeah we’re digging for love Yeah we’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging for love Yeah we’re digging for love Dig dig dig dig dig dig Digging for love La la la love La la la love Dig dig dig dig dig dig Digging for love La la la love La la la love We’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging for love Yeah we’re digging for love Yeah we’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging, digging Yeah we’re digging for love Yeah we’re digging for love
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Hagere Ethiopia 03:04
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Here to Imagine 03:56
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The future is a woman With her head held high And a afro on her shoulders Reaching up for the sky And the knowledge of her people Is filling up her mind She understand manipulation Won’t fall for it this time An era evolution Are you part of it’s might? You invited to the party. But you better step right…. At the center is a love It will be different this time We are here to imagine What the future looks like We are here to imagine What that could look like We are here to imagine What that could look like We are here to imagine, imagine, imagine The future is a man who Knows his feminine side He doesn’t feel diminished When he hurts or he cries Binary is always trouble Polarize us in our struggle We are greater than our bubbles Who you are, you define. While we here we do the work To alchemize our pain and hurt Beyond the limits of our minds To what the future looks like We are here to imagine What that could look like We are here to imagine What that could look like We are here to imagine, imagine, imagine What you cannot dream, you can’t make into reality What you cannot dream, you can’t make into reality We are here to imagine What that could look like We are here to imagine What that could look like We are here to imagine, imagine, imagine
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Birdsong 03:16
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Look down, you are a bird Lift high above the earth Stretch out on any perch You and the sky Wind has a heart and mind It teach you how to glide Wingspan is unconfined You and the sky Big picture, widest view Earth curve is bending true Solo inside the blue You and the sky When you need access to The bigness that lives in you Become the bird that flew You and the sky Updraft pushes you high Sensory lullaby Breath soft and mind alive You and the sky Nothing for granted now Feel into all your power Kin to the clouds and flowers You and the sky When you need access to The bigness that lives in you Become the bird that flew You and the sky

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released March 8, 2024

All songs written and arranged by Meklit + Dan Wilson, except lyrics of Hagere Ethiopia by Alemtsehay Wedajo.

Produced by Dan Wilson

“Hagare Ethiopia” & “Birdsong” produced by Dan Wilson & Sara Mulford

Meklit Hadero: vocals, krar (3)
Kibrom Birhane: piano, moog, microcosm, keyboard
Howard Wiley: tenor + alto sax
Colin Douglas: drumkit
Marco Peris Coppola: tupan + percussion
Sam Bevan: upright + electric bass (2, 3, 4, 6)
Miles Jay: upright + electric bass (2, 4)
Ismail Lumanovski: Clarinet (6)
Sara Mulford: synth + keyboard (1, 3, 5, 6)
Dan Wilson: OP1 synth (2, 4, 5)
John Mark Nelson: synth + acoustic guitar (2)

Cover photo: Alexa Trevino

Cover Design: Meklit + Dan Wilson + Paola Rhon at Better Projects

Recorded at Ballroom West Studios by Dan Wilson, John Mark Nelson, and Sara Mulford, Los Angeles and Women’s Audio Mission by Veronica Simonetti and Danielle Goldsmith, San Francisco.

Mastering by Dan Shike at Tone and Volume Mastering.

Special thanks to Dan Wilson. Your generosity and creativity are exponential; your friendship is cherished.

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Meklit San Francisco, California

Meklit is an Ethio-American vocalist, composer and cultural strategist whose music has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, NPR and many more. She is a NatGeo Explorer, a TED Sr. Fellow and has collaborated with Kronos Quartet, Andrew Bird and Preservation Hall. Meklit is host and co-founder of Movement, a podcast, radio series and live show exploring the intersection of migration and music. ... more

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