Sunshine Music by ALA.NI

Soulful and sun-inspired, ALA.NI shines on ‘Sunshine Music’. Ten years after ‘You & I’, which made a lasting impression in France and internationally (collaborations with Iggy Pop, Lakeith Stanfield, and Jon Baptiste), the Londoner with the golden voice is back with a new album that combines vintage and Caribbean sounds. Marked by a two-year interlude in Jamaica, Barbados and Grenada, the musician unveils eleven songs of timeless elegance, imbued with the sweetness of living in the heart of lush nature.

Calypso, ragga, bossa, rocksteady... In this new album, ALA.NI allows herself subtle rewritings of the most emblematic Caribbean rhythms, with interpretations that go as far as Brazil. Her crystalline voice dances, with jazz inflections reminiscent of Sade Adu and Minnie Riperton.

Inspired by a gentle life in lush landscapes, ‘Sunshine Music’ sings about love (“Something you said”, “This is why”, “I don't want to hate you”) and nature, celebrating life through timelessly elegant ballads. Soulful, solar and sensual, ALA.NI revives her memories of green horizons and birdsongs (“Blue Mountain”, “Summer Meadows”), moonlit nights (“Hey Moon”) and the ocean (“Seaweed”). As the child of immigrants, she is also deeply marked by living for the first time within a black majority: thus, she sings of the damage done by imperialism in “Tief” - ‘thief’ in Jamaican patois-which borrows a sample from “The Slave” by calypso legend Mighty Sparrow.

Ten years following her debut album, the Londoner is back in the spotlight with an album that lives up to its name... In ‘Sunshine Music’, ALA.NI glows !