Name: Y'Y
Brand: Amaro Freitas

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PSY037LP

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2024-03-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

850056058094

Total Cap

Black LP

PSY037CD

850056058117

Artist

Amaro Freitas 

Genre US

Jazz

Label US

Psychic Hotline

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With his new album <i>Y’Y </i>(pronounced “eey-eh, eey-eh”), Amaro Freitas steps into a new realm of musical creation. A realm rooted in magic and possibility, and tempered by a sense of stewardship for the earth’s bounties.

Side A serves as an expression of connection to the earth and to the ancestors, paying homage to the forest and the rivers of Northern Brazil with both the music and the album title, Y’Y, a word written in the Sateré Mawé dialect, an ancestral indigenous code that means water or river. And by bringing to life lessons he learned in the Amazon about the incandescent power of enchanted spirits who intervene on behalf of the community in times of struggle.

On Side B,<i> Y’Y</i> shows the connections between the global Black avant-jazz community. Bringing together multi-instrumentalist Shabaka Hutchings, harpist Brandee Younger, bassist Aniel Someillan, guitarist Jeff Parker and drummer Hamid Drake, the music creates an artful conversation by weaving together jazz traditions from across the world, while staying rooted in the unique sounds and rituals found in Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous cultures.

Freitas continues to intwine ancestral knowledge into music on Y’Y by bringing his fresh, “decolonized”

interpretation of Brazilian jazz and sharing music that may well shatter our preconceived notions of what jazz can be.

Y'Y 

Music US

Discover Y'Y by Amaro Freitas. An enchanting album rooted in magic and ancestral knowledge, weaving together jazz traditions from across the world. Available on Psychic Hotline.