Noor by Yamila

Following her 2022 album Visions, Yamila unveils Noor, her second album under the Umor Rex label. In this new work, the Spanish cellist, singer and producer intertwines strings and electronics to sculpt landscapes where listening expands toward territories of dusky beauty.

The album was born under the shelter of a secret ecological community. There, among damp meadows and the song of a blackbird, Yamila feels an ancient urge—to sing to the bees. Inspired by ancestral rituals in which sound served as a bridge between species—to summon herds or soothe the trembling sky - the artist listens to the wind and reimagines that lost practice through a contemporary language: titanic harmonies dissolving into fragile microtones, rhythms that pulse not merely as measure, but as breath that stirs the body.

Her voice merges with the electronics and the resonant strings of orchestral ensemble Echo Collective, weaving a sonic tapestry that shifts between the monumental and the intimate, the incandescent and the whispering. Noor sings to the living—a prayer to fertilize the earth and return its breath. Yamila’s music is not simply meant to be heard: it is inhabited, breathed, and felt as a living organism. It is a choreography of air, emotion, and resonance. Noor emerges as both refuge and revelation - a reminder that music can still be epic and radiant, profoundly human, while listening - reverently - beyond the human.

If Visions was an exploration of myth and transcendence, Noor - which means “light” in Arabic - radiates a quiet devotion to care, fragility, and renewal. Written while Yamila was trying to conceive her daughter, the album carries a luminous sense of hope and nurture. “There’s so much desire to cradle and mother the world,” she says. “It’s an album that speaks about care - the importance of caring, and how little we value those who care for others.”

Across its tracks, Yamila celebrates the strength within vulnerability. On first single Prado, a song about being strong without violence, she finds “great strength in what is fragile,” evoking the ecstatic, almost mythical possibility of interspecies love. Sin Desarraigo (Uprooting) is a song of transformation - of finding beauty after catastrophe - while Lo Animal channels the darker power of nature reclaiming everything, a reminder of human fragility before the elemental.

Born in Granada and now based between Brussels and Madrid, Yamila’s path has traced a bridge between electronic innovation and classical form. A cellist, singer, and producer, she has performed at festivals such as Sonic Acts, Rewire, and Ars Electronica, and composed for renowned dance institutions including the Nederlands Dans Theater and Gothenburg Opera. Noor feels like the culmination of these threads: an album of elemental grace, ancient instinct, and tender, defiant light.

Following in the wake of her first work, IrasFajro 2019 supported by Clark this year YAMILA will reveal her most intimate catharsis in her second album  Visions.
A celebration of hallucinatory powers of music, it offers a journey that prodigiously unites baroque accents, Spanish folklore and contemporary electronic music.

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