Ala.ni – Summer Meadows

Today, Paris-based singer/songwriter ALA.NI releases new single “Summer Meadows” via No Format Records, her second new song of the year following last month’s “Something You Said.”

Drawing from a rich tapestry of influences – from calypso, to jazz, to bossa nova – the track is an intimate, heartfelt homage to her time spent living in Jamaica. The song also arrives with a music video which further celebrates her Caribbean heritage by effortlessly weaving her music with footage from Trinidad’s 1959 Carnival.

“I definitely wrote this one under my duvet, wishing for sunshine,” shares ALA.NI. “It was December 2023, and mentally, I was back in Jamaica. The contrabass you hear is actually Clément Petit on the cello, while the carnivalesque trumpets and horns were played by Okiel McIntyre, a great kid I met playing music in Jamaica. I needed someone who knew what Caribbean sunshine feels like! I called him out of the blue — and he just happened to be flying into Paris to play with The Skatalites a few days later, so I grabbed him.”

The track takes inspiration from the two and a half years she spent traveling across Barbados, Grenada – where her parents grew up – and Jamaica, a trip that helped her find a renewed sense of self. Music flowed naturally, and she found herself collaborating with many of the Caribbean’s most prominent artists. Back in Paris, she channeled the energy she felt on this journey – thinking of the sunshine, heat, beauty and soul of these islands. 

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