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Leyla McCalla - Sun Without the Heat (2024)

Posted By: Rtax
Leyla McCalla - Sun Without the Heat (2024)

Leyla McCalla - Sun Without the Heat (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 213 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 90 MB
39:24 | Acoustic, Folk | Label: Anti - Epitaph

Gatefold. On her new album Sun Without the Heat, McCalla brings more playfulness and joy than she has on previous records when she speaks to the concerns that have shaped her career, mainly including an ethos in which you must look back at lost and erased histories before you can embrace a forward vision of Afrofuturism and the importance of music making to heal and forge relationships across differences. Across Sun Without the Heat's ten tracks, she achieves this with music that combines jazz, Haitian Twoubadou, American blues, folk and Brazilian Tropicalismo.Born in New York City to Haitian emigrants and activists, McCalla possesses a stunning mastery of the cello, tenor banjo and guitar.

Leyla McCalla - Breaking the Thermometer (2022)

Posted By: delpotro
Leyla McCalla - Breaking the Thermometer (2022)

Leyla McCalla - Breaking the Thermometer (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 268 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 107 Mb | 00:46:25
Folk, Female Vocal | Label: ANTI- Records

Haitian American singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla (Our Native Daughters), who now calls New Orleans home, chronicles a vital part of Haitian history with a groundbreaking concept album made in partnership with Duke University. Breaking the Thermometer draws inspiration from the story of Radio Haiti, a now-defunct independent radio station that, in addition to playing Creole music and broadcasting primarily in Creole language in the French-dominated country, used its platform to challenge corruption in Haiti. McCalla spent time with Duke’s archive of Radio Haiti recordings and devised a multidisciplinary stage show around the material, the music from which makes up Breaking the Thermometer. Primarily performed in Creole, Breaking the Thermometer is part homage, part time capsule, part journalistic reporting, all anchored by McCalla’s dynamic voice, masterful banjo picking and deep connection to her roots. Highlights include “Fort Dimanche”, named for an infamous French-built former prison known for torturing inmates, and the jazzy, English-language “You Don’t Know Me”.