Moving away from the song form, Dom La Nena offers a first album without words, full of grace and sweetness.
We shouldn’t be surprised not to hear any words about Leon, Dom La Nena’s most recent album. She dipped her bow in instrumental music on Tempo (2021), which notably included a sad waltz, and had clearly expressed the feeling of liberation that she had felt by freeing herself from the texts.
Leon (this is the name she gives to her instrument) takes advantage of all the background of the musician of Brazilian origin. The former pupil of Christine Walevska, the “goddess of the cello”, reconnects with her classical roots, sometimes taps the body of her instrument and draws deliberately lyrical pieces, made up of a superposition of tracks with ample melodies punctuated by plucked strings .
Whether she offers a waltz or rather neo-classical pieces, Dom La Nena relies exclusively on the voice of her instrument. Leon is also a kind of time travel, its approach sometimes evoking older music (FEBRUARY), others more modern (Lanyard, the only one whose atmosphere is slightly doctored), but all testify to a desire for inner peace. Sweeter than truly melancholy, Leon is a morning disc. Or the soundtrack indicated for a gray day that we wish to appease.
instrumental music
Leon
Dom La Nena
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