{"title":"Hejira","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"thread-of-gold","title":"Thread Of Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon-based trio Hejira release their second LP \u003ci\u003eThread of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e through their own Lima Limo Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorne from an astonishing and acutely personal sequence of events, \u003ci\u003eThread of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of vocalist, bass guitarist and co-songwriter Rahel Debebe-Dessalegne’s changing relationship with her homeland of Ethiopia after the death of her father. She took the band with her on a pilgrimage to Addis Ababa, looking to reaffirm her own ancestral roots and cultural identity, and subsequently on a deeper exploration into the unique, ancient and far-flung lands, peoples and music’s of Ethiopia. On this journey, the band members worked through loss and bereavement, through discovery and new experiences, through a moveable song writing that took place across many years and many locations. The displacement, write the band, gave deeper meaning to their own identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe results - as documented on \u003ci\u003eThread of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e - weave together the many ribbons of Hejira’s musical outlook. Years of performing together in jazz and big-band ensembles, and alongside such profiles as Amy Winehouse, Nitin Sawhney, Floating Points and Eric Lau has informed an instinctual and mutually inspiring compositional relationship within the band. Their intelligent, soulful, leftfield-aligned take on pop music underpins their love of the otherworldly, the mesmerising, and the unpredictable. Their time in Ethiopia eventually became the binding force around several years’ worth of song writing and self-recording. “Ethiopia became a backbone and a point of reference,” multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Beste offers. “The experience helped to galvanise everything we had written into a cohesive work.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePartly dedicated to the memory of Rahel’s uncle Gashe Selelshie (“the type of person you learn so much from just by being in his company”), \u003ci\u003eThread of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e sparkles with articulate and subtle instrumentation, ear worming choruses, orchestral arrangement, emotive confession, East African field recordings and close vocal harmonies, all illuminating a profoundly moving and intimate personal expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHejira formed in 2010 after Beste, Debebe-Dessalegne and fellow multi-instrumentalist Alex Reeve set up their home studio in South East London. The line-up expands to include additional musicians both in the studio and onstage. These are never hired hands, but musical ‘cousins’ to the ‘siblings’ of the core trio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2016, following the release of their acclaimed 2013 debut LP Prayer Before Birth on Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Records, and EPs on Accidental and Floating Points’ Eglo Records, the band set up their own Lima Limo Records. The label - named after a winding mountain path in northern Ethiopia - has become a home not only for their own releases, but also for like-minded creative souls releasing music just as strange and wonderful as Hejira’s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lima Limo Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50508349407563,"sku":"1056099","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2d3ac691-6835-42bc-84aa-36aeb8fbc39d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727858074"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/hejira.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}