Melusine. A legend of the Middle Ages, inspiration for a jazz album sung in four languages and which mixes the rhythms of the world to make you dizzy? It can be when you are Cécile McLorin Salvant. As rooted as without borders. Capable of embodying a fairy that is both founding and evil, a myth with a thousand variants since Antiquity, without losing the groovea single measurement. Her Mélusine is a symbol of power and independence here, and her story becomes that of generations of elusive women, all over the world. And first in Haiti cheride Salvant: it gives a medieval song in Creole jazzy, translated from Occitan. It allows a ballad of the XIVe century, tell me i’m beautiful, to celebrate in Africa, with a lot of djembe. Everything surprises, everything delights, until the resumption of an air of… starmania. Eh yes. Little earthly music, which cradled Cécile as a little girl and which, through the Cécile of today, weaves the narrative thread of Melusine an ode to fertility. Nothing less.
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