Malia – The Garden of Eve (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Malia – The Garden of Eve (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:55 minutes | 474 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS

After releasing spine-tinglingly striking single “Hope” just before Christmas, Malawi-born, London-based jazz singer Malia welcomes the new decade with ‘The Garden of Eve’, an album dedicated to the blues and its stories. It has been a long time since a contemporary artist has made such a beautiful homage to the blues, a style that in the year 2020 deserves to have a bit of its dust brushed off.

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Malia – Ripples (Echoes of Dreams) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Malia – Ripples (Echoes of Dreams) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:41 minutes | 452 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS

Ripples (Echoes of Dreams)” shows another perspective on Malia’s album “Echoes of Dreams” – it’s not a remake in the usual sense, but a highly emotional commitment of the British-African musician to her roots, coupled with the experience from the previous albums.

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Malia – Malawi Blues/Njira (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Malia – Malawi Blues/Njira (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:07 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS

Marshall McLuhan’s once futuristic idea of the “Global Village” has long since become a reality. Only now in pop music are we in many ways learning and experiencing what the legendary media theorist had already formulated at the beginning of the 60s. Through digital technological advances, the majority of pop genres have acquired a worldwide, global dimension. Hip-hop, blues, and jazz are all evolving in hundreds of regional varieties, far from their original roots. The music of Malia can without a doubt be seen as impressive evidence of this worldwide fusion.

Moving from the southern African republic of Malawi to London at the age of fourteen, the singer spent her teenage years in the Big Smoke. Malia has recorded three albums in France with Andre Manoukian: Yellow Daffodils (2002), Echoes of Dreams (2004), and Young Bones (2007) – all originating in Manoukian’s Paris studio. In 2010 she got to know the Swiss producer Boris Blank, who, since the 80s as part of the avant-garde duo Yello (The Race, Bostich) with Dieter Meyer, has enjoyed great success. In 2012, Malia published a tribute to Nina Simone, Black Orchid, which won that year’s ECHO Jazz Award. In 2014, Boris Blank produced the eleven electronically shaped songs of her album Convergence. Malia’s sixth studio album, Malawi Blues/Njira, sees her clear, incisive voice again amplified in a soul-jazz context. “A record that I’ve long wanted to make… Right now the time feels right for this… I wanted songs that reflected my awareness and ancestry”, she sums up the vibe of the ten tracks on Malawi Blues/Njira.

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