About Gabriel Teodros
Worldwide Underground is a weekly mix show, newsletter, seasonal podcast series, and more - put together by South Seattle’s own Gabriel Teodros. Music available on Bandcamp.
Gabriel Teodros is a musician and storyteller from South Seattle who first made a mark with the group Abyssinian Creole, and reached an international audience with his critically-acclaimed solo debut Lovework. He has been setting stages on fire ever since, all across the US, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Ethiopia and South Africa; often in combination with workshops on creative writing, music, history, science fiction and media literacy.
His latest album, From The Ashes of Our Homes, opens with a reflection on the day Teodros and his spouse Ijeoma Oluo fled from an actual house fire, and expands to a full-length meditation on the loss of home and safety many experienced these last few years from wars, pandemic, and climate catastrophe - and how to build something new from the ashes of our collective homes.
Picking up where 2018's History Rhymes If It Doesn't Repeat (A Southend Healing Ritual) left off, Ashes is another collective exercise in moving through trauma, made in connection with Teodros' long-standing partner in rhyme Khingz (of Abyssinian Creole).