Trevor Hall: Music, Mysticism, Meditation and Money [live performance].
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Raised on an island in South Carolina, singer/songwriter Trevor Hall realized at a young age that music was more than just a passion - it was his life’s art. So, he moved to California to pursue a degree in music, began performing live shows and was quickly signed to his dream deal at a major label. His trajectory seemed meteoric, then everything came tumbling down. His albums never made it out of production, he found himself out of money, abandoned by his label and on his own to figure out how to move forward.
During this same time, he was also introduced to yoga and meditation and found himself traveling to a local ashram to practice and eventually find housing and sustenance. In his time of greatest need, he found himself living in the ashram, then traveling to India and rediscovering who he really was and how he wanted to bring his music and voice to the world. From there, he began to rebuild not only his living as a musician, but also his life.
Hall’s music, a blend of roots and folk music with hints of inspiration from India, has since led him to a series of sold-out tours and collaborations with artists such as Steel Pulse, The Wailers, Jimmy Cliff, Matisyahu, Michael Franti, Xavier Rudd and Nahko & Medicine for the People. Trevor Hall’s Chapter of the Forest (2014) and KALA (2015), debuted at #3 and #2 on the iTunes singer/songwriter chart respectively. He is currently touring around the US and Australia. While on tour, Hall collects donations to support children’s education in India.
Hall’s latest album, The Fruitful Darkness, became the #1 Kickstarter Music campaign of 2017 and debuted at #9 on the iTunes alternative chart.
Be sure to listen to the end, where Trevor shares a moving acoustic rendition of one of his songs, live in the studio.
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| 0:00.0 | So growing up, today's guest Trevor Hall, he was kind of like a local surf kid, you know, |
| 0:07.6 | surfing in the summer, skateboarding, that was the culture he was around. |
| 0:11.2 | He also really dug music. |
| 0:12.9 | He was exposed to it from the earliest age. |
| 0:15.2 | His dad is a drummer and had always done that on the side and various bands and a massive |
| 0:21.3 | music collection. |
| 0:22.7 | So Trevor was always kind of around music and he loved music and he played music. |
| 0:27.3 | But he never thought it would be his career. |
| 0:28.9 | He was on a different path until he started playing and through a series of coincidences |
| 0:35.6 | and kind of random introductions, he found himself playing shows in LA and going to music |
| 0:43.2 | school. |
| 0:44.3 | This profoundly changed the direction of his life, but that wasn't the first change. |
| 0:48.2 | There were then a series of sort of fortunate and unfortunate incidences that took him from |
| 0:53.6 | LA to India, back to LA and then traveling all around the country and the world, developing |
| 1:00.5 | his voice, signing with a major record label then having that implode and then really kind |
| 1:05.2 | of taking time and saying, this is who I am. |
| 1:08.1 | This is who I need to be. |
| 1:09.1 | This is my voice, my gift. |
| 1:10.9 | This is how I want to be in the world. |
| 1:12.9 | That journey, that really moving journey and commitment to essence and voice and craft |
| 1:17.8 | is where we sort of dive into in this week's conversation. |
| 1:22.3 | Really excited to share it with you and be sure to listen to the end because Trevor brought |
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