The Rabbit meka

• 1 Something Strange 03:46
• 2 Temperance 04:07
• 3 Heavy Hands 03:45
• 4 Memory Machine 05:19
• 5 Vices and Virtues 04:17
• 6 Baby Blues 02:17
• 7 Tomato Song 04:14
• 8 The Tower 05:03
• 9 Manzanita 03:43
• 10 The Rabbit 04:19
• 11 What Once Was 03:12
• Total Runtime 44:02

Info for The Rabbit

Meka is the pseudonym of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Melissa Lingo, whose transcendent musicality and exquisite voice transport listeners back to the hazy, sweet world of 1960s and '70s folk. She ranks alongside artists like Joan Baez, Vashti Bunyan, and Nick Drake's "Bryter Layter," as well as more contemporary artists like Alela Diane, who embody this classic sound of yesteryear.

Meka has led an unconventional and somewhat nomadic life. Growing up in a remote California mountain town dedicated to astronomical research, she became fascinated by space and the archetypal nature of astrology. She comes from a family of four generations of musicians and storytellers, including her mother, who spent most of her life as a singer and guitarist, and her grandmother, who, as Meka put it, played "a mean double bass." After spending time in Brazil and India, she settled in Cambodia for eight years, then found her way to Budapest and finally to Prague, where she lives high in the mountains.

Melissa Lingo aka Meka, guitar
Josefin Runsteen, violin
Lovisa Samuelsson, cello
Daniel Bengston, piano, bass
Lars Skoglund, drums

Melissa Lingo aka Meka
Songstress, poet, and self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Melissa Lingo is a musical storyteller. Her lyrics are intimately reflective; braiding the poetic wisdom of Mother Nature with her experiences in finding the tenderness in pain and the sacred in the seemingly mundane.

As a woman of the woods, Melissa and her producer, 2-time Grammy nominee Carmen Rizzo, thought it would be special to record the skeleton of this record outdoors among birdsong and wind—a way to literally involve the elements that inspire much of Melissa’s music. They lugged their gear to a quiet meadow on stolen Nisenan land near the Yuba River, and captured exactly what they sought to in one day before returning to Los Angeles, stolen Tongva land, to overdub and mix the album.

The Sabian Symbol, “A Young Girl Feeding Birds in Winter” represents the willingness and devotion to nourish one another other and our dreams even in the face of scarcity and the dark unknown. This record is a collection of songs written in the midst of loss, tragedy, hope and perseverance.

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