“Bahia”, Ana Carla Maza’s 2nd studio album opens with “Habana”, a tribute to the Cuban capital, where she was born 26 years ago. The second title which gives its name to the album is an ode to Bahia, the neighborhood where Ana Carla spent her childhood and where she built her family memories. Ana Carla translates the crazy Cuban feeling, “with” his cello, “this best friend”almost a twin, whom she seizes head on, and who yields to the injunctions of mixtures: classical, sound, jazz, bowing, sharp pizzicato, and voice.
“Bahia”, the album, travels in Latin America. The 9 titles, recorded in acoustics in Barcelona, in a “direct, simple, sincere way in one go, one afternoon was enough”.
East Bahia a post-pandemic album. The 2020 confinement took Ana Carla by surprise, holder of an “overloaded” passport. She must then leave for Mexico, the borders are closing. We could lament less, but no.
The country misses him. “In Cuba, there is always someone who comes by to drink a little coffee, without being in a hurry”. And then, there are flowers, bouquets, flamboyant scarlets. She transmits these sensations to us by playing “with this Cuban passion”, writing like a woman, “from the inside”, says Ana Clara, happy to have composed Bahia entirely “while for a long time I have only played music written by men. A friend told me: look for what is you, breaths, entrances, exits”.
Today, Ana Carla can already roll out a river CV. At 10, she is on the stage of the Havana Jazz Plaza festival. At 15, in concert at Jazz à Amiens, she met another cellist, Vincent Segal, who offered to take his cello and play. Here she is a singer, on tour by her side, in a whirlwind. Then solo. She is 17 years old.
From these experiences, was born Bahia, free albumwritten by a young musician of remarkable appetite, for whom taking risks is an artistic necessity.