NEW COMING ALBUM
" Beijo de Luz “
Finally, after a long 7 years journey Yami Aloelela as found himself so, between his dreams, life experiences and expectations, he now offers an album filled with songs made for love and with love.
“ Beijo de Luz “ is an etno/pop album that promises to reach the hearts of people and, better than hearing it will be to feel it.
First single: " UMBI UMBI "
BIO
THAT THE SKIN OF SOUND IS MESTIZO “[...] The world was no longer the addition of enclosed worlds, it was one alone, more and more Mestizo”. Pepetela, Lueji: O Nascimento Dum Império (The Birth of an Empire), Lisboa, Publicações Dom Quixote, 1990, pp. 26-27. They come from south and are transmarine, the roots. Maybe for that, there is neither sound or rhyme nor panoramic that does not tropicalize. Irreducibly diverse, they stand upon pan-African rhythmic figures, between traditional forms and Creole innovations – either in dancing music from Africa’s cities, such as semba, coladera and morna, either in music from African’s Diaspora, such as funk, reggae and rumba – and in Yami’s music creations germinate one and the other thing. The chant, trained by the heart beat, mixes Kimbundu, Cape Verdean Creole and Portuguese vocabulary in a dark’s accent and rhythm, in a narrow, ancient, neighbourhood, connecting each idiom to the other, each country to the other. If, with the eyes wide shut – as listening is advised –, one experiences without distance the heath from the lips that sing and laugh; the ebony from the dancing bodies that, either close or apart, smooth the grass and shoo the ants; and the scent of blossom acajou trees and the fruitfully mango trees, climbing and descending the spiral of sound that returns voyage from the hemisphere of soul. Aloelela* is, at a time, desire and celebration, corporality and spirituality. In sum, an African- lusofoolishness, as contagious as laugh. By: Ana Gonçalves