Virtuoso of voice and cello, Ana Carla Maza was born in Cuba while Wim Wenders toured Buena Vista Social Club and took her first steps on stage at the age of 10, to then grow rapidly internationally. After the success of her solo album La Flor, she signs the compositions herself for the quartet of her new album, Bahia, a tribute to the Havana neighborhood where she spent her early childhood, coming into contact with a versatile instrument, capable of making her: «An adventuress and a pioneer. I like the cello because I can play it like a 1950s jazz bass or like a classical concert bow.” Cuban and Brazilian sounds are in the spotlight of an album in which rhythms such as Tango, Huayno and jazz come together to draw a world of sensitivity and hope. Soft voice, percussive pizzicato and light bows: the cellist, elegantly accompanied by a jazz trio, unfolds a range of colors and emotions, alternating caresses and storms.
A work that is a fabulous mix of classical cello and voice, which draws on son cubano, samba, bossa nova, tango, jazz and chanson. It opens with Habana, the city where she was born 26 years ago into a family of musicians – her father Carlos Maza, an acclaimed Chilean pianist, and her mother Mirza Sierra, a Cuban guitarist. The song that gives the album its title is an ode to the district of Havana where he spent his childhood and to which his memories are linked, translated into the crazy feeling of Cuba that his music transmits.
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