Brazilian vocalist and cellist Dom La Nena has announced a new album titled SOYO via Six Degrees Records, which will be released March 3. Co-produced by La Nena and Brazilian composer/singer/guitarist Marcelo Camelo, SOYO is the follow-up to her debut album, Ela.
La Nena’s first album got the 25-year-old a lot of attention. NPR hailed it as a “sonic masterpiece” and has drawn comparisons such as “a young Brian Wilson” (Wall Street Journal), “a burnished, bossa Joanna Newsom” (Time Out New York) and “the shadow of Lhasa” (Voir). The New York Times wrote, “[Dom La Nena] joins the sorority of whisperers that includes singers like Juana Molina, Hope Sandoval and Jane Birkin.”
Co-produced by La Nena and Brazilian songwriter Marcelo Camelo, formerly of the Brazilian band Los Hermanos, the album features long, wandering melodies ornamented by cellos, pianos and other chamber folk elements coming and going throughout.
Recorded in Lisbon, Paris and Mexico City; mixed in Sao Paolo; and mastered in Miami, SOYO is international to its core. This is something La Nena reflects in her music, with tales of vast distances, longing and nostalgia.
"All the musicians and artists who have influenced me and my songwriting over the years, they make their way subconsciously into my music — but one of the biggest influences for this album was being on the road: continually experiencing the feeling of biding your time, waiting to depart, waiting for soundcheck, waiting for the show, etc., as time continues to pass while you are far from home and family. So in addition to musical influences, the underlying anticipation and the mundane things that happen in life while on tour tend to find their way into my songs,” she said.
Having toured the world throughout 2013-14 in a solo capacity, La Nena will be performing the songs of SOYO during 2015 in a trio.
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