Sun without heatby Leyla McCalla, ANTI/PIAS
With her clear and lively tone, Leyla McCalla amplifies everything she plays. The cellist, composer, banjo player and American singer of Haitian descent is a safe choice for the folk scene and lets her full range resonate on her fifth album. Sun without heat. From his first title Open the road, With lively guitars, bright vocals, joy dominates. His music is based on American folklore, Caribbean trances, Brazilian rhythms and the pulse of Afrobeat, weaving a web of rich nuances.
Poet Leyla McCalla tells the universal story of humanity “Built to survive”. She sings it in a tropical style Scaled to survive, Ode to maternal strength and resilience.
Becoming a tree through music alone
When she dreams of having turned into a tree, in TreeThrough its music alone, it evokes the rustling of its branches in the wind, the burying of its roots, the majesty of a living nature. The dazzling score begins a cappella and ends with a stormy electric flight of drums and guitars. The headline reads: Sun without heatHis song takes up the words of African-American activist Frederick Douglass, who called for political action to abolish slavery in 1857.
Music can express all the hope in the world and Leyla McCalla makes it heard with infinite grace. Treat yourself to a breaka comforting piano/vocal ballad, rediscovers the peace of childhood happiness. I want to believea gospel hymn with a soothing rhythm where the cello blossoms, proclaims an invisible and immense spirituality. “I want to believe in a love that I have never seen / I want to believe in a love that was given to me”, She sings as if praying, with an intense and caressing voice.
