After Visions, Yamila unveils Noor, her second album under the Umor Rex label. In this new work, the Spanish composer 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 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. Born in Granada and now based between Brussels and Madrid, Yamila’s path has traced a bridge between electronic innovation and classical form. 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.