The Soul of Music: Meklit Hadero tells stories of migration

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This episode is part four of The Soul of Music—Overheard’s four-part series focusing on music, exploration, and Black history. Our guest this week is Meklit Hadero, a Nat Geo Explorer and Ethio-jazz musician. Meklit is the creative force behind the transmedia storytelling project Movement, which explores the intersection of migration and music. She and fellow Explorer and music producer Jahawi Bertolli talk about migration, the ancient instruments known as rock gongs, and how their music is inspired by nature. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard. Want more? Learn more about Meklit Hadero and the Movement project at her website meklitmusic.com. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram @meklitmusic. Learn more about Jahawi Bertolli and his First Rock project on his website jahawi.com. You can follow him on Instagram @jahawibertolli. Check out the Overheard episode “Ancient Orchestra” to learn more about Jahawi and the sound of rock gongs. And keep listening to songs featured in The Soul of Music as well as a few bonus tracks in this Spotify playlist. Also explore: Follow FREEK and his music on instagram @freektv. The “star sounds” you heard were provided by Jon Jenkins, co-investigator for data analysis for the Kepler Mission. Learn more about the Kepler Mission and star sonification on their webpage. Learn more about ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astake in this Nat Geo article. Thinking about traveling to Ethiopia? This Nat Geo travel guide can help you plan your trip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Carrie Douglas, I'm a producer here at Overheard, and this is the final episode
0:10.4	of our four-part series focusing on music, exploration, and black history.
0:14.9	It's called The Soul of Music.
0:16.8	A natural geographic explorer will be sitting down with some of our favorite musicians to discuss
0:21.2	how history and the natural world inspire their art and adventures.
0:25.7	These guests are both explorers and musicians, Jehawi Bertoli and McLeod Hadero.
0:31.2	My name is McLeod Hadero.
0:33.2	I'm a singer-songwriter, Ethiopian jazz musician, and I'm also the co-founder, host, and producer
0:43.4	for a podcast and radio show and live show called Movement, which explores the intersection
0:50.2	of migration and music.
0:52.7	One of McLeod's inspirations and mentors is Molato Estake, an Ethiopian multi-instrumentalist
0:58.8	who developed the unique sound of Ethio Jazz.
1:03.0	And Ethio Jazz came from Molato Estake going to the US to explore his own creative practice
1:13.1	as a musician and for his own education.
1:15.7	And he was interacting with amazing musicians who were jazz musicians, jazz, of course,
1:21.3	born from an experience of the forced migration of slavery which brought people from primarily
1:27.1	from West Africa to the Americas and birthed all of the musics that are thought of as American
1:35.0	musics.
1:36.0	You know, jazz, hip-hop, blues.
1:39.1	And then Molato Estake goes there as an Ethiopian artist and there's this famous moment
1:45.1	where he interacts with John Coltrane and Coltrane is like, man, bring your music into
1:50.4	this. What does that look like?
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