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Mekele: Musician Biography

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INTRODUCING MEKELE'S SENSORIAL LISTENING STREAM, A WEBSPACE WHERE SOUNDS AND VISUALS COEXIST IN THEIR OBJECTIVE TO REFLECT MEKELE'S EVER EVOLVING SOUND.

INTERESTED IN THE SOUND HEALING CAPABILITIES OF SONG PRODUCTION, MEKELE EXPLORES DIFFERENT SOUND FREQUENCIES VIA ELECTRONIC PRACTICE AND RAW, OPERATIC VOCALS TO CREATE A FUSION OF SOUND THAT CAN BE DEFINED AS BOTH ATMOSPHERIC AND INDUSTRIAL, SIMULTANEOUSLY REPRESENTING A MUCH MORE ENIGMATIC LISTENING EXPERIENCE ENTIRELY. MEKELE’S COMPOSITIONS POSSESS THE SWAYING NOTIONS OF POP WHILE ACTIVATING YOUR CEREBRAL SENSES INTO A PROVOCATIVE, YET DEEPLY MEDITATIVE SOUNDSCAPE. WITH A LYRICAL SOUNDBOARD CONTAINING CONTENT RANGING FROM FEELINGS OF LOVE TO SELF-DESTRUCTIVENESS AND OBSESSIONS OF THE EGO, MEKELE EXPLORES THEMES THAT ARE INNATELY HUMAN AND BOTH FAMILIAR AND ESSENTIAL TO OUR EPHEMERAL EXISTENCE.

WHETHER PRODUCING REMIXES OR EPONYMOUS TRACKS, THE TORONTO-BASED ARTIST HAS AN EXTENSIVE, AND GROWING, CATALOG OF PRODUCTION, INCLUDING RUNWAY SOUNDTRACKS FOR FASHION DESIGNER RAD HOURANI, PROJECTS WITH YOUNG HOUSE PRODUCER JACQUES GREENE, AND A NOWNESS FEATURE VIDEO WITH CREATIVE DIRECTOR MELISSA MATOS. SEVERAL COLLABORATIONS OVER A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY FIELD CONTINUE TO VALIDATE HIS PRESENCE IN THE INDUSTRY AND INFORM HIS GROWTH TOWARD NEW RELEASES AND PROJECTS LEADING UP TO HIS FIRST FULL-LENGTH DEBUT.


Originally Published: January, 2015


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