Miriam Aïda
Miriam Aïda
PIECES
OUT SPRING 2023
Magazine JAZZ
"Aïda embraces the world and creates music for a whole world to embrace."
5/5 Ystads Allehanda
"On the album Pieces, Miriam has brought out the best parts of jazz...to then take one - no, several - many - steps further in different directions. In my book, she has never sung better."
ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2023 by LIRA Magazine
"Miriam Aïda is the kind of artist who constantly sparkles around on stage, she is so obviously comfortable there and then it is easy to enjoy as an audience as well."
Miriam Aida and her band dig into the different expressions of Afro music to cross-fertilize, merge and experiment. They twist the familiar to seek new perspectives and commonality with their interpretations of Beyonce, Nina Simone, Silvio Rodríguez, H.E.R, Stevie Wonder, Gil Scott-Heron among others.
The group expands with more pieces, more rhythms, more languages, more contrasts. Wider, narrower, intimate, funky and full of hope.
Rhythms that took root and emerged from the transatlantic slave trade and sprouted in the New World - New Orleans, Kingston, Havana, Salvador. Beautiful expressions with common roots that have grown and spread all over the planet. Jazz, R&B, Reggae, Samba-Soul, Afoxé, Cuban Rumba, Gospel.
Music as an expression of freedom, a strong tool for building community, creating an identity that holds both roots, future, change, pain and joy of life.
SINGLE No. 2
SINGLE No. 1
FREEDOM
Miriam Aïda’s first single-drop from her upcoming album ”Pieces” is a take on Beyoncé's and Kendrick Lamar's powerful anthem FREEDOM from 2016. Driven by an unapologetic beat and urging message, Miriam Aïda and her band turn Freedom into an infectious and soulful Brazilian groove with a life-affirming spirit!
FOUR WOMEN
The second single release for the upcoming album ”Pieces” is an interpretation of Nina Simone's "Four Women” (1966). The song came as a reaction on a series events during the Civil Rights Movement and was banned on several major radio stations in the US.
With influences from Afro Music of the Brazil, Miriam Aïda and her band takes "Four Women" into a thoughtful and suggestive mood.
Release date the 24 February and it’s a contribution to recognize Black History Month 2023, which this year has "Black Resistance" as theme