Libela

Breaking The Thermometer

Dodinin

Machineri - Soul People

The Mandé Variations

Elyne Road

Samba

Bonheur

At Home

Connection

Album out October 27th 2017
www.martinhayes.com

The Boy in the Gap

Akalé Wubé songs available for streaming

Jawa Jawa (remixed)

Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou - The Homeless Wanderer

A Curva da Cintura

Kaira

Leyla McCalla's 'Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes' available October 16th, 2020 on CD, LP, and digital. 

Leyla McCalla’s Vari-Colored Songs is a celebration of the complexity of Black culture and identity, and a tribute to the legacy of poet and thinker Langston Hughes. A songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, McCalla sets Hughes’ poems to her own spare yet profound compositions. She juxtaposes these with arrangements of folk songs from Haiti, the first independent Black nation and the homeland of her parents, tapping into the nuances of Black experience. McCalla’s music elegantly weaves Haitian influences together with American folk music, just as Hughes incorporated Black vernacular into his remarkable poetry, and the way the Haitian Kreyòl is a beacon for the survival of African identity through the brutal legacy of colonialism. This is music of reclamation, imbued with a quiet power that grapples with the immense weight of history.

Leyla McCalla - Mèsi Bondye

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Leyla McCalla - Mèsi Bondye

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