French-Sri Lankan musician Nilusi’s butter-smooth voice will keep you up at night
The first sound you hear Letter to the universeThe first album in 2024 of the French musician Nilusi, is his model of staccato in a smoked and warm murmur. “Tereketena”, she retaliated-the title onomatopoeia of the song-before a tabla joins the fray, beating a rhythm which is a cross between folk percussion and glitch-hop. A piano exploits a delicate template on all of this while Nilusi’s voice moves to a smooth Falsetto R&B shaded with notes of carnatic ragas.
“ Tereketena ”, like the rest of the album, is a lesson in fusion – contemporary French pop, R&B, traditional Sri -Lankan music and experimental electronic frills harmonizing as friends of childhood. But despite all its technical beauty, the song also spreads with the tension of a raw nerve, never quite capable of sitting and being fair. In this sense, he perfectly reflects the central themes of the album – to navigate in a dyyness identity and the bliss that comes when you find yourself on the other side. “It is a song on the birth of another country of your parents or your family, and the struggle that it can be to communicate with them in a pure way,” explains the musician, actor, filmmaker and label of 25 years. “The only way to do this, to explore and share my emotions with them is through my music on stage.”
