Melissa Laveaux – Mama Forgot Her Name Was Miracle (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Melissa Laveaux - Mama Forgot Her Name Was Miracle (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Melissa Laveaux – Mama Forgot Her Name Was Miracle (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:12 minutes | 523 MB | Genre: Jazz, Pop, World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Twanèt

Let’s unpack the term ‘lullaby’ for a sec. It’s an act of song used solely to soothe a person into rest or slumber. Lullabies are meant to be sung in a confidential caring space, away from prying eyes, contrary to the widescreen pop song, which is music that usually functions as a great connector for a mass audience.
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Melissa Laveaux – Dying Is a Wild Night (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Melissa Laveaux – Dying Is a Wild Night (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:06 minutes | 401 MB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © No Format!

Mélissa Michelle Marjolec Laveaux is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Haitian descent signed to french No Format! label. Her music has been described as a mix of roots, folk, and blues using her signature percussive finger-style guitar and soulful vocal stylings. Her second full length album entitled “Dying Is a Wild Night”, an excerpt from an Emily Dickinson quote: “Dying is a wild night and a new road”.

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Melissa Laveaux – Radyo Siwèl (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Melissa Laveaux – Radyo Siwèl (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:27 minutes | 478 MB | Genre: World, Indie Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © No Format!

April 2016, Canadian singer Mélissa Laveaux heads to Haiti, her parents’ homeland. 20 years have gone by since she last stepped foot there. Here she is today, still a stranger to a country that is very much an intricate part of her identity. She discovers an extraordinary heritage: the folk songs that have bred and nourished Haitians artists for decades.

Returning from Haiti with sounds, melodies, moods and stories of distant times, upon which Mélissa built the musical backbone to Radyo Siwèl. A re-interpretation, sometimes from scraps, sometimes from a few phrases in a book, from traditional tunes to vaudou anthems, sewn together like a patchwork of intersecting identities. Draping them in her indie rock aesthetic, percussive and sinuous guitars, Mélissa’s voice booms and unfurls to give the music its distinct sound. The overall result benefitting from the surreal halo that the jacks-of-all-trade A.L.B.E.R.T. studio achieved to make way for these dark or light meditations, enriched by the notable shining presence of Drew Gonsalves, leading man and songwriter of Trinidadian band Kobo Town, on guitar and quattro.

Mélissa then reimagines a past, that can only serve to open up a future of new possibilities. A fairytale still looking for its happy ending. Starting at the roots, she chose the branches and leaves of the stories she best knew how to tell – piecing together an odd tree. It yields the little hog plums which endemic to Haiti, “siwèl” in creole.

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