YAMILA: Madrid-based cellist & producer releases new album 'Noor' on TODAY Umor Rex - listen in full now.

YAMILA - New album ‘Noor’    out TODAY on Umor Rex! - Listen in full here

Photo credit: Assiah Alcázar (click for high res)   "A composer, singer, and cellist who has the ability to conjure ethereal beauty in multiple contexts, carving out a space where gauzy textures, elegant melodic gestures, an almost subversive rhythmic presence, and trippy incantations mingle, collide, and pull apart... There’s a quirkiness to her singing that evokes a subdued hybrid of Björk and Juana Molina, but Yamila has her own more delicate ethos." - Bandcamp "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 "A remarkable fluidity of form... The music and artist are in harmony with nature; in this context, the conditions are created in which divine light might break through." - A Closer Listen "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 Today Yamila releases her captivating new album, ‘Noor’ through Mexico City-based label Umor Rex. In this compelling, delicately textured 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 felt 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.   ‘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. ‘Noor’ album links: https://allinone.umor-rex.com/ur159   If her previous album ‘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   ‘Noor’ artwork (click for high res):   Links: Web | Instagram | Spotify | Facebook | Bandcamp