YAMILA: Spanish cellist/producer shares new single "Lo Animal". Album 'Noor' out Feb 6th on Umor Rex.

YAMILA - Hear new single "Lo Animal" - Forthcoming album ‘Noor’   out February 6th on Umor Rex

Photo credit: Assiah Alcázar    "You could easily imagine this Madrid-based cellist’s industrial-tinged gothic opus on the soundtrack to Dune, with its thundering drums, metallic shrieks, eerie chorals and end-times grandeur." - The Guardian "The compositions move by their own strange logic, never proceeding in a linear fashion but constantly mushrooming into off shapes… Noor casts a singular spell.” - 8/10, Uncut Today, Yamila shares a third and final pre-release single from her forthcoming album, ‘Noor’, to be released on February 6th, 2026 through Mexico City-based label Umor Rex. In this new work, the Spanish cellist, singer and producer intertwines strings and electronics to sculpt landscapes where listening expands toward territories of dusky beauty. The album was born under the shelter of a secret ecological community. There, among damp meadows and the song of a blackbird, Yamila feels an ancient urge—to sing to the bees. Inspired by ancestral rituals in which sound served as a bridge between species—to summon herds or soothe the trembling sky - the artist listens to the wind and reimagines that lost practice through a contemporary language: titanic harmonies dissolving into fragile microtones, rhythms that pulse not merely as measure, but as breath that stirs the body. Following previous singles "Prado (Meadow)" and "Sin Desarraigo (Without Uprooting)", today she shares one of the album's darker moments "Lo Animal (The Animal)". The track marches forth with ominously menacing strings and thundering electronics, giving way to elegiac choral vocals. Yamila explains: "It talks about nature taking over and making us disappear, about the power nature has to destroy everything, and how fragile we are in comparison."   Listen to “Lo Animal”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=behaSvW9gvo ‘Noor’ album pre-order/streaming links: https://allinone.umor-rex.com/ur159   ‘Noor’ sings to the living—a prayer to fertilise the earth and return its breath. Yamila’s music is not simply meant to be heard: it is inhabited, breathed, and felt as a living organism. It is a choreography of air, emotion, and resonance. ‘Noor ‘emerges as both refuge and revelation - a reminder that music can still be epic and radiant, profoundly human, while listening - reverently - beyond the human.   If ‘Visions ‘was an exploration of myth and transcendence, ‘Noor’ - which means “light” in Arabic - radiates a quiet devotion to care, fragility, and renewal. Written while Yamila was trying to conceive her daughter, the album carries a luminous sense of hope and nurture. “There’s so much desire to cradle and mother the world,” she says. “It’s an album that speaks about care - the importance of caring, and how little we value those who care for others.”   Born in Granada and now based between Brussels and Madrid, Yamila’s path has traced a bridge between electronic innovation and classical form. She has performed at festivals such as Sonic Acts, Rewire, and Ars Electronica, and composed for renowned dance institutions including the Nederlands Dans Theater and Gothenburg Opera. ‘Noor’ feels like the culmination of these threads: an album of elemental grace, ancient instinct, and tender, defiant light.   ‘Noor’ track list: 01 Embrasser un Arbre 02 Ascensión 03 Sin desarraigo 04 Lo animal 05 Prado 06 Luces Robóticas 07 If you 08 Diamonds 09 Vida     Links: Web | Instagram | Spotify | Facebook | Bandcamp