On her second album Mazy Fly, Chrystia Cabral wrote, produced and played most of the songs herself. Hereby she investigates the tension between discovering new things on the one hand and the danger of destruction on the other, which can coincide with these discoveries. For example, the song Haunted Water is a reflection on colonial violence that took place during the shipping route of the Middenpassage.
To shape her story, Cabral dives into new wave, which she incorporates with trip hop, r & b and ambient. Mostly slow and dragging synthesizers that breathe the 80s, bubble up in songs that often have no clear structure. The result is an equally fascinating and bleak record on which Cabral gives shape to her fascination for the quest of man for a better future with uncanny music. (JvQ)more
