Dayme Arocena

Daymé Arocena – Alkemi (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:55 minutes | 683 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Bossa Nova, Soul, Pop, Female Vocal
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Afro-Cuban star Daymé Arocena releases her new album Alkemi released via Brownswood Recordings. It is her first album since Sonocardiogram in 2019. When Daymé decided to switch gears and record her fourth studio album in Puerto Rico with the iconic producer Eduardo Cabra (Calle 13), she never imagined that she would end up moving there. From the cosmopolitan smoothness of lead single “Suave y Pegao” – an effortless fusion of jazz, bossa nova and urbano stylings with reggaeton star Rafa Pabön on guest vocals – to the smoldering neo-soul of “A Fuego Lento,” with Dominican singer Vicente García, Daymé’s latest album relies on sacred formats of the past but rearranges them in a conscious quest to redraw the very definition of what Latin pop is supposed to sound like.

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Daymé Arocena – Alkemi (2024) [24Bit-96kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:32:55 minutes | 682 MB | Genre: Musiques du monde, Amérique latine
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Daymé Arocena – Sonocardiogram (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:54 minutes | 458 MB | Genre: World
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Daymé returns to her Havana roots on ‘Sonocardiogram’, which is a sun-baked, vibrant record backed by a killer band of fellow Cubans. Holding sessions in a simple, repurposed artist’s studio in Havana, Daymé produced the record herself, taking the reins to make the album her most raw and arresting outing to date.

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Daymé Arocena – Nueva Era (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:53 minutes | 473 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Daymé Arocena is an award-winning Afro-Cuban jazz singer from Havana, who has been described as Cuba’s “finest young female singer”. She won the 2015 Juno Award for the best jazz album, as a member of the jazz band Maqueque performing with Canadian musician Jane Bunnett. Arocena is on National Public Radio’s list of 50 favourite albums of 2015, with the album “Nueva Era”. Describing Arocena’s voice, NPR host Felix Contreras called her “a cross between Celia Cruz and Aretha Franklin”, saying that Arocena’s name “deserved to be alongside those two legendary voices”.

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Daymé Arocena – Cubafonía (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:15 minutes | 517 MB | Genre: Jazz, Latin
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The release from Bob Marley’s youngest son. Damian Marley (a.k.a. Jr. Gong) has been his late father’s rangiest ambassador. His first solo album in a decade is an inspiring 18-track collection, flexing authority on roots jams and dancehall bangers, political meditations and come-ons. It’s a reminder that reggae remains a potent pop force, especially when it’s in the hands of a master.

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