Habana-Bahia

Description

Yilian Cañizares continues her world tour of African identities in exile. In 2019, to record the album Erzulie, she settled in New Orleans; there she rediscovered the vibrant memories of creolity, Haitian voodoo, cosmopolitan jazz, and Southern funk. Today, for Habana-Bahia, she chooses another capital of Black identities: Salvador de Bahia, and especially one neighborhood in particular, Candeal, which concentrates all the electricity of a metropolis, its spirits, and its drums. This new album is a feast. It opens with the timeless timbre of the mystical laundresses of Itapuã who bless the name "Oxum." It unfolds with salty souls, filtered rocks, and new century tropicalisms. It blends voices from here and elsewhere, duets across the seas, in Spanish and Brazilian. Yilian Cañizares sings her true volatile nature, reconciling space and time, men and gods. Yilian Cañizares is one of the most interesting violinists, singers, and composers on the contemporary scene. Without ever betraying her origins, she mixes in a style that has become her own jazz, classical, and Afro-Cuban rhythms with a voice that seems to come from another world. There are few artists, whether on stage or in the studio, as talented and versatile as Yilian Cañizares. Born in Havana and settled in Switzerland for 20 years, she has great respect for the past while nurturing a sensitivity turned towards the future. "Yilian is one of the most incredible talents of the new generation of Cuban musicians. She is virtuosic, expressive, spontaneous, and has a grace that makes her the favorite of us all." Chucho Valdés Her style reflects her various influences. It features touches of jazz, classical, and Cuban music, with a large space left for improvisation. The magazine Les Inrockuptibles speaks of "jazz orchestration mixed with percussion borrowed from Yoruba rituals." She sings in Spanish, Yoruba, and French, and one of her particularities is singing and playing the violin at the same time.