Mayra Andrade, as if by re-enchantment – ​​Libération

The Cape Verdean singer-songwriter sublimates the most beautiful beaches of her repertoire alongside guitarist Djodje Almeida in a new album, “reEncanto”.

Renaissance. This is undoubtedly the key to listening to Mayra Andrade's new record, called reEncanto. Texto a “re-enchantment” of some of the most beautiful tracks in his repertoire, captured during a concert at Union Chapel in London in November 2022 during his tour of the same name. A best of? «Plutôt un best of myself», tempers the singer, who has been living in Lisbon for around ten years after having taken out a lease in Paris, “a city as beautiful as it can be hard to live in”. “This recording reflects a certain maturity, after more than twenty years of career. I'm going to be 40, and I hear all that in my voice. There is a patina, an experience, full of stories that are told beyond words.”

Five years later Manga, latest collection in which she anchored her words in the heart of post-modern Africa, inviting Senegalese and Ivorian beatmakers into her universe for sounds stamped with an electronic stamp, the Cape Verdean chose the path of the exact opposite: her voice in the simplest device, with the unique support of a guitarist. “Motherhood made me want to be in a musical cocoon, an intimacy with the public and a sensitivity that allows me to give of myself in a new way. The guitar-voice format is a master formula in my career, being Cape Verdean.

“Alchemy”

From Browse, who revealed her in 2006, the native of Cuba has traveled a lot, multiplying the trails and guests: from the Guinean Djeli Moussa