Mélusine HD FLAC Album (96kHz/24bit) exclusive

Mélusine HD FLAC Album (96kHz/24bit) exclusiveCcile McLorin Salvants album Mlusine is a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the 12th century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyl. They tell the folk tale of Mlusine, a woman who turns into a half snake each Saturday after a childhood curse by her mother. Mlusine agrees to marry Raymondin on the condition that he never see her on Saturdays. He agrees but is later convinced

with libretto by Alice Goodman

It captures their acoustic performance of songs by Brazil's beloved samba-ist Angenor de Oliveira ("Cartola")

" exclaims Mojo

noisy and somehow serene … simply a masterpiece

The ten-song set spans more than a century

This first studio recording of Tyondai Braxton's Telekinesis—an eighty-seven-piece work for electric guitars

“strange is the norm” and characters hop off the page and onto disc

" Pitchfork called it a "late-career masterpiece" and named the album among the 200 Best of the 1980s

Jason Isbell)

naming her its Breakthrough Artist of 2021

only to reappear every time one of her descendants is on their deathbed

who co-produced the album