Convergence (Reference Edition) Malia, Boris Blank

• 1 Dancing Flame 03:30
• 2 Celestial Echo 04:09
• 3 Embraceable Moon 04:10
• 4 I Feel It Like You 03:42
• 5 Touching Ghosts 03:21
• 6 Claire Cadillac 03:12
• 7 Raising Venus 04:40
• 8 Fever 03:28
• 9 Smouldering Ashes 03:56
• 10 Magnetic Lies 04:01
• 11 Tears Run Dry 03:42
• 12 Turner's Ship 06:42
• Total Runtime 48:33

Info for Convergence (Reference Edition)

The duo Malia & Boris Blank blend elegant jazz with electronic beats, creating an atmospheric soundscape. Their collaboration is a captivating example of cross-genre creativity.

The soul-jazz singer and the sound tinkerer from Yello each bring their very own unique soundscapes to the album, the title of which can be translated as ‘Approach’. The music is unmistakably electronic, the voice organic, the sound polished. “Perhaps it’s soul, in the sense that this music comes from the soul,” says Malia. “For me, the roots of these tracks go back even further, to gospel and blues – they’re as direct as they are honest.”

A particular highlight of the anniversary edition is “Dancing Flame”. This previously unreleased track opens the album and blends seamlessly into the atmospheric soundscape of *Convergence*. With its hypnotic intensity, it sets the tone for a listening experience that combines the familiar with the new.

Convergence is one of the most sensual and elegant album we have heard in a long time. Its almost timeless aesthetics avoid clichés mostly associated with electronic soul music and seamlessly bring together two artists with a unique approach to their work – but most important of all: it’s got soul and sensuality, both in a very elegant and airy way but still has enough artistic weight to carry the promise of becoming a long term companion.

Malia & Boris Blank

Malia
Malia's music is an example of how music can transcend borders and genres. The singer, who was born in Malawi in East Africa, is portrayed as the pure embodiment of cool neo-soul jazz, then again as a reviver of the singing tradition of the great jazz divas like Billie Holiday or Nina Simone - but also as a musician who revives traditional African sounds.

Her debut album "Yellow Daffodils" was an immediate chart success, and her video "Purple Shoes" from her debut album became legend. This was followed in 2013 by the Echo Jazz award as "International Female Vocalist of the Year” for her Album Black Orchid, a tribute to Nina Simone her spiritual mentor. She has made countless concert appearances and recorded 8 albums to date. Malia has established herself in the top league of contemporary jazz and soul ladies. Today she can perform her songs with such intensity and maturity that the listeners feel deeply moved by the power and hunger for life with which this singer infuses in her songs. "Many of my lyrics have taken on a much deeper meaning for me today, as I have felt a strong inner urge to recreate them with my current experiences, including the hard times I have gone through in my life". She has often claimed to sing for salvation.

Malia moves between Jazz, Blues and Soul with an intuitive certainty. Whatever she sings or interprets: her sound is always cool, and yet very warm hearted, never dusty and always highly topical. Malia is one of the flagship artists of our global music culture.

And if blues means life, Malia is the energy that allows the blues to have a soul, a voice. It has been said that it has been a long time since a contemporary artist has made such a beautiful homage to the blues, her latest album "The Garden Of Eve", is a testament to her ever evolving creativity and determination to explore music without borders, crossing cultures and making aural pictures in the hope of elevating the human soul.

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