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Anyone looking for answers to the problems of the present will eventually start digging in history. Some find there toxic theses about old constellations that blind thinking. But if you dig even further, you will come across the knowledge of your ancestors – and discover a spirituality with healing powers. This is the approach pursued by the twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, who have been delighting the music world with the Ibeyi project since the mid-2010s.
With their first album IBEYI they traced the family tree of their French-Afro-Cuban family, ASHES negotiated
Racism. The title of the third disc SPELL 31 refers to the “Egyptian Book of the Dead”, a collection of magic spells and liturgical formulas. Among these texts, “Spell 31” sounds like a kind of announcement: Anyone who thinks they are speaking against the author’s magic will feel it.
In the key song “Made Of Gold” Ibeyi quote the saying: “The sky encloses the stars / I enclose Magic, I enclose Magic”. The album was again produced by XL boss Richard Russell, together with Ibeyi he found an adventurous sound in the best sense of the word , which fuses Björk’s spiritual electro-pop with hip-hop, Latin neo-soul, Afro influences and the summoning music of Dead Can Dance.
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