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Ashes

A Safe Place For Us / From the Ashes of Our Homes

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Ashes

A Safe Place For Us / From the Ashes of Our Homes

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Gabriel Teodros - From The Ashes of Our Homes

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Khingz - A Safe Place For Us

Available on Bandcamp

”One of the realest records you’ll hear all year and an immediate entry in my top 10 of 2023. Such intimate glimpses of an artist’s infinite inkwell are truly rare.” - Gavin @ KRCL 90.9 FM (SLC)
“With vivid, insightful, poetic reflections on the tragic fire that him and his spouse, Ijeomo Oluo, had to flee from in September 2020, longtime friends that have passed away, and a shifting landscape wracked by the pandemic, wars, and the climate catastrophe, From the Ashes of Our Homes finds strength in its honest and reflective lyrics that focus on building and nurturing relationships, both at home and in the community.” - Alex @ KEXP 90.3 FM (Seattle)

What We Leave Behind

What We Leave Behind

What We Leave Behind

What We Leave Behind

Featuring Aisha Fukushima, Kimmortal, Prometheus Brown, Khingz, Jennifer Johns, SETI X, Jonathan Emile, Kasi, Castro, Amos Miller & The New Seattle Orchestra; with production by SoulChef, Crispy, Phreewil, DJ B-Girl, EarDr.Umz the MetroGnome, Te… — The Lost Tapes featuring Aisha Fukushima, Kimmortal, Prometheus Brown, Khingz, Jennifer Johns, SETI X, Jonathan Emile, Kasi, Castro, Amos Miller & The New Seattle Orchestra; with production by SoulChef, Crispy, Phreewil, DJ B-Girl, EarDr.Umz the MetroGnome, Teal Douville, Martín, Wundrkut, AirMe, Third Eye Bling, Jonathan Emile, Uncle Greg, Budo & Ahamefule J. Oluo.

Gabriel Teodros - What We Leave Behind (independent, 2020)

<a href="http://gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com/album/what-we-leave-behind">What We Leave Behind by Gabriel Teodros</a>

“Gabriel Teodros has been making quality hip hop for twenty-plus years, so it should come as no surprise that when he went back through the vaults, he had enough to put together an album that would rival most artists carefully crafted and planned projects.” - Scratched Vinyl

Interview on KEXP: “A World Where Many Worlds Fit”: Kimmortal and Gabriel Teodros on Black and Asian Solidarity

Gabriel Teodros - The Anniversary EP (independent, 2019)

<a href="http://gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com/album/the-anniversary-ep">The Anniversary EP by Gabriel Teodros</a>

with production by Moka Only, SoulChef & EarDr.Umz the MetroGnome.

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A Southend Healing Ritual

History Rhymes If It Doesn’t Repeat

(A Southend Healing Ritual)

A Southend Healing Ritual

History Rhymes If It Doesn’t Repeat

(A Southend Healing Ritual)

<a href="http://gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com/album/history-rhymes-if-it-doesnt-repeat-a-southend-healing-ritual">History Rhymes If It Doesn&#39;t Repeat (A Southend Healing Ritual) by Gabriel Teodros</a>

Gabriel Teodros - History Rhymes If It Doesn’t Repeat (A Southend Healing Ritual) (independent, 2018)

“Gabriel Teodros is one of the bravest rappers currently working in Seattle.” - NPR Music

“Throughout his 15-year career, spanning several musical and publishing projects under a handful of different names and guises, Teodros settled among the artists who embody Seattle’s conscience and, in the process, its memory, and his artistic archive is more important than ever as the city changes faster than the rest of us can keep up with.” - City Arts Magazine

Interview in South Seattle Emerald: Gabriel Teodros Addresses Trauma and the Healing He Found In Music and the Southend On His New Album

Interview on KEXP: Gabriel Teodros Battles His Inner Demons on History Rhymes If It Doesn't Repeat (A Southend Healing Ritual)

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Evidence Of Things Not Seen

"i'm operating in a system i do not believe in

authoring some stories we could leave for our children"

Evidence Of Things Not Seen

Gabriel Teodros & SoulChef

Evidence Of Things Not Seen

"i'm operating in a system i do not believe in

authoring some stories we could leave for our children"

Evidence Of Things Not Seen

Gabriel Teodros & SoulChef

Gabriel Teodros & SoulChef - Evidence Of Things Not Seen

"Multi-talented and community-engaged, veteran MC Gabriel Teodros releases his strongest album yet." - City Arts Magazine

"Sunday-morning easy, SoulChef's classic, hearth-warm production fits the "30 Something, Hella Single" wanderer-MC like fresh socks as he steps out looking for love ("I kinda flirt with existence"), meaning, and home." - Larry Mizell Jr., The Stranger

"Besides depth packed lyrical content, there is something bottomless and heart grippingly soothing about Teodros’ music. It’s like the perfect synthesis of jazz-tinged soul with Hip-Hop, or it’s like when Hip-Hop meets love and love meets Hip-Hop" - Amira Ali, Africa Speaks 4 Africa

"There’s significant conceptual depth and ambition in Teodros’ new collection that remains both inviting and even warm." - Okayafrica

"I was introduced to Gabriel via this collab, and after checking the album out he’s become one of my favourite MCs." - Mr. Tang, The Word Is Bond

Limited-edition book of lyrics and digital book available with album exclusively on Bandcamp.

Children Of The Dragon

"a beautiful struggle in a jungle called everywhere

i'm in the air so they say i'm felt anywhere

familiar and rare, like tears at the airport..."

Children Of The Dragon

Gabriel Teodros & AirMe

Children Of The Dragon

"a beautiful struggle in a jungle called everywhere

i'm in the air so they say i'm felt anywhere

familiar and rare, like tears at the airport..."

Children Of The Dragon

Gabriel Teodros & AirMe

Gabriel Teodros & AirMe - Children Of The Dragon (independent, 2014)

"Life handed Gabriel Teodros a 24 hour layover and with that the Ethiopian/Seattleite MC made soulful wordplay for anyone who has ever felt in flux between two homes." - Alyssa Klein, Okayafrica

"Teodros explores themes of diaspora, blackness, masculinity, resistance, and love through his music, which is always on point." - Verónica Bayetti Flores, Feministing

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CopperWire

"we run like the answer to ancestor's questions

of what resurrection is, and does redemption live here?"

CopperWire - Earthbound

CopperWire

"we run like the answer to ancestor's questions

of what resurrection is, and does redemption live here?"

CopperWire - Earthbound

CopperWire (Meklit Hadero, Burntface & Gabriel Teodros) - Earthbound (Porto Franco Records, 2012)

"Hip-hop moves beyond materialism for a more planetary perspective in Earthbound, the debut record from soulful sci-fi trio CopperWire. The musical space opera’s cosmological bounce is finely tuned for listeners who are as plugged into NASA and SETI as they are into Digable Planets and Sun Ra." - WIRED Magazine

"Best Hip-Hop Space Opera" - Best Of San Francisco, SF Weekly

"A record that's bold, packed, beautiful, dark, political, funky, lyrical, and moving." - Charles Mudede, The Stranger

Interview: Underground Railroad with Jay Smooth

Album includes liner notes written by Nnedi Okorafor

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Colored People's Time Machine

"you do fulfill our dreams unrealized

and my love for you is impossible to recite

it'd be the sweetest note ever spoke upon a mic"

Colored People's Time Machine

Colored People's Time Machine

"you do fulfill our dreams unrealized

and my love for you is impossible to recite

it'd be the sweetest note ever spoke upon a mic"

Colored People's Time Machine

<a href="https://gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com/album/colored-peoples-time-machine">Colored People&#39;s Time Machine by Gabriel Teodros</a>

Gabriel Teodros - Colored People's Time Machine (Fresh Chopped Beats, 2012)

"Musically, the album blends genres effortlessly, and is cleverly produced. It is captivating and smooth-flowing, and never loses its rhythm. Teodros describes his musical journey as ‘a constant process/unraveling/you call it hip hop/I call it Colored People’s Time Machine’. And he has taken a beautifully collaborative approach to telling his story. A well-crafted, thoughtful, insightful ode to all the people, experiences, places, that have made him who he is today. To borrow a phrase from Lauryn Hill, Colored People’s Time Machine is ‘a well written thesis broken down into pieces.’" - Anne Mazimhaka, This Is Africa

Interviews: KEXP | The Stranger | Wasafiri Magazine

Reviews: Okayplayer | 206 Up | Rap Reviews

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Gabriel Teodros - GT's Ethiopium: A Jitter Generation Mixtape (independent, 2009) — **Gabriel Teodros -** ***GT's Ethiopium: A Jitter Generation Mixtape*** (independent, 2009)

Air 2 A Bird (Amos Miller & Gabriel Teodros) - Crow Hill (independent, 2010) — **Air 2 A Bird (Amos Miller & Gabriel Teodros) -** ***Crow Hill*** (independent, 2010)

Gabriel Teodros & DJ Ian Head - The Lentil Soup EP (Everyday Beats, 2011) — **Gabriel Teodros & DJ Ian Head -** ***The Lentil Soup EP*** (Everyday Beats, 2011)

Lovework

but if we label this

just picture what we might miss

Lovework

but if we label this

just picture what we might miss

Gabriel Teodros - Lovework (MassLine, 2007)

"When you talk about Hip Hop in the Emerald City (Seattle), you will lose all credibility if you don’t give props to Gabriel Teodros... His solo album Lovework is considered a masterpiece and one of the tightest albums to ever bless the city who’s Hip Hop scene was once only defined by Sir Mix-A-Lot." - Davey D, Breakdown FM

"Teodros has brains, musicality and a refreshing attitude." - Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone Magazine

"The second-generation-Ethiopian's first major proper, Lovework, is a stirring exercise in soulful hip-hop from start to finish" - Kevin Polowy, URB Magazine

"Gabriel Teodros lets his heart bleed on his solo album, Lovework. He delivers a number of powerful messages here, and out of all the albums I have reviewed thus far, I consider this the most important because of the level of social consciousness packed in." - Okayplayer

"Young and romantic and imbued with the spirit of possibility, Lovework is the soul of an old man." - Colorlines Magazine

CD available exclusively at Bandcamp.