Meklit is an Ethiopian-born artist who spent her formative years in the States. Following graduation from Yale, Meklit settled in San Francisco where she immersed herself in the thriving arts scene. Her fifth album, When The People Move The Music Moves Too<\/i>, took no time shooting up to the number four spot on the iTunes World Music Chart, and this disc finds her taking help from the legendary Dan Wilson (Semisonic) on production and Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Andrew Bird elsewhere.<\/p>\n
The leadoff track, \u201cThis Was Made Here,\u201d immediately reveals Meklit\u2019s strengths with its strong, fluid vocals, gently plucked guitar and vibrant horns, with the flute acrobatics certainly adding greatly to the experience as well. \u201cI Want To Sing For Them All\u201d shifts to a playful, almost cinematic quality with strings and brings Andrew Bird on board, and \u201cSupernova\u201d showcases Meklit’s soothing, smooth voice with a pop song chocked full of World music flavor. <\/p>\n
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band brings their horns to four different tunes here, all of which are among of the most noteworthy. \u201cYou Are My Luck\u201d is upbeat, piano-driven fun, while \u201cYou Got Me\u201d is a more mysterious in nature and features an alluring, jazzy atmosphere. Near the end, they contribute to the smoky, subdued \u201cBirthday Song,\u201d which could easily find a consistent spot on the FM dial. Meanwhile, the album closer \u201cMemories Of The Future\u201d sums up the album well: it\u2019s creative, soaring, and has multiple layers of memorable instrumentation. <\/p>\n
The absolute album highlight, however (with Andrew Bird in the mix) is \u201cYerakeh Yeresal,\u201d where light and cheery flutes add greatly to the beauty, which, despite its not being sung in English, should appeal to any person on the globe. <\/p>\n
It’s pretty unlikely that anyone is making music like this today. Meklit’s Ethio-jazz is a sound all its own, often using a krar (a harp like instrument from Ethiopia) as well as thriving elements from both Brooklyn and San Francisco. With enough modern pop influences as well as rich cultural aspects from the around the world, the international appeal of this album is simply fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10062],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45084","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-meklit","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45084"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45084"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}