Leyla McCalla - Vari-Colored Songs AEC Video The feeling of being both

The feeling of being both a mess and unstoppable at our fingertips

Born in 1947 in the German speaking district of Aarau in Switzerland

but not even close to Chronus

the listener is free to travel the music by his or hers own imagination

Leyla McCalla - Vari-Colored Songs AEC Video The feeling of being bothLeyla McCalla's Vari Colored Songs is a celebration of the complexity of Black culture and identity, and a tribute to the legacy of poet and thinker Langston Hughes. A songwriter and multi instrumentalist, McCalla sets Hughes' poems to her own spare yet profound compositions. She juxtaposes these with arrangements of folk songs from Haiti, the first independent Black nation and the homeland of her parents, tapping into the nuances of Black experience.