YAMILA

– Hear new single “Sin Desarraigo”
– Forthcoming album ‘Noor’
  out February 6th on Umor Rex

Photo credit: Assiah Alcázar

Looking for something a little different? Read on and listen to the two tracks. Yamila might be just what you’ve been looking for.

In this new work, the Spanish cellist, singer and producer intertwines strings and electronics to sculpt landscapes where listening expands toward territories of dusky beauty. The album was born under the shelter of a secret ecological community. There, among damp meadows and the song of a blackbird, Yamila feels an ancient urge—to sing to the bees. Inspired by ancestral rituals in which sound served as a bridge between species—to summon herds or soothe the trembling sky – the artist listens to the wind and reimagines that lost practice through a contemporary language: titanic harmonies dissolving into fragile microtones, rhythms that pulse not merely as measure, but as breath that stirs the body.

Following the recent single “Prado (meadow)”, Yamila now shares the delicate beauty of “Sin desarraigo (Without uprooting”. She describes it as one of the album’s key moments, a piece that carries a quiet sense of hope and hints at the possibility of emerging from surrounding disaster. The track opens in an almost translucent atmosphere shaped by Echo Collective’s strings, gradually unfurling as Yamila’s voice enters: “I feel the wind in my belly; it’s been a long time since it’s kept me warm. I look at the sky, distracted, and I have no wounds. When I embrace that tree, I no longer feel the uprooting. It’s been a long time since I’ve believed in what’s good or what’s ugly.”

After being submerged in drone, the piece slowly resurfaces. “It’s not the same, but it’s beautiful too,” Yamila explains. “That’s why I find it a hopeful piece — there can be beauty after a great disaster.”