LEYLA MCCALLA - Sun Without The Heat (Vinyl)


Leyla Mccalla

LP (100g)

$44.00

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Date of release: Apr 12 2024


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 com-
bines 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. A founding member of Our
Native Daughters alongside Rhiannon Giddens, Amysthyst Kiah and Allison Russell
and an alumna of Grammy award-winning band The Carolina Chocolate Drops,

McCalla has also received considerable praise and attention for her solo works, in-
cluding 2014's Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes, which prompted

the New York Times to rave that "her voice is disarmingly natural, and her settings
are elegantly succinct" and 2022's Breaking The Thermometer (4/5 review from The
Guardian).
Lyrically on Sun Without the Heat, McCalla draws from the writings of Black feminist
Afrofuturist thinkers Octavia Butler, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Adrienne Maree

Brown, among others, with frequent themes being grief, connection and mother-
hood. Like these authors, McCalla is thinking hard about collaboration as a means

of creative expression, community thinking, personal salvation, and rectifying social
injustice. "The stories we've been told about ourselves and the stories that we
have to learn to undo the stories we've been told," she explains."Sometimes these
are painful stories to tell. This is especially vivid in the title song, "Sun Without the
Heat.""

Tracklisting:
1.Open The Road
2.Scaled To Survive
3.Take Me Away
4.So I'll Go
5.Tree
6.Sun Without The Heat
7.Tower
8.Love We Had
9.Give Yourself A Break
10.I Want To Believe

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LEYLA MCCALLA - Sun Without The Heat (Vinyl) (LP)
Cat No: ANT880341
Barcode: 045778803415
Packaging: LP (100g)
SKU 5494580
Barcode # 045778803415
Artist Leyla Mccalla
Artist/Author LEYLA MCCALLA
Shipping weight 0.6140kg
Format LP (100g)

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