Izaline Calister - Rayo di Lus - Ray of Light

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:47
Size: 102,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:29)  1. Ainda
(3:57)  2. Mi Welita
(4:45)  3. Reina di Pordon
(4:20)  4. Kada be
(3:59)  5. Aaaah
(3:43)  6. Mi ke ku mi stimé
(4:08)  7. Kou mi numa
(4:27)  8. Blue Curaçao
(3:44)  9. Laman
(3:22) 10. Bo kuenta
(3:47) 11. T'ami t'esun

Izaline Calister (born in Curaçao, March 9, 1969) is a Dutch-Curaçaoan singer and songwriter. Growing up in her native Curaçao for eighteen years, Calister moved to Groningen, the Netherlands, where she studied at the Prince Claus Conservatoire and continues to live. Calister's music combines the Afro-Caribbean-Calypso influences of her native Curaçao with jazz, creating a unique blend of music. These influences and musical features consist of rhythms, dances and songs from the island, of which she adapts and composes to accommodate her own unique style. Singing in her native language of Papiamento, Calister feels that of as native speaker of such a unique yet widely unexposed language to the international community, a language also of a very select group of users, it is her duty to be an ambassador of her language. She performs at venues and festivals around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izaline_Calister

Personnel: Izaline Calister - vocals (lead, backing, effects, etc); Ward Veenstra - Moog, sounds and effects, programming, electric bass, tenor ukelele, guitars; Roël Calister - percussion, drum programming, sampling, vocals

Guests: Jeroen Vierdag - double bass; Astrid Haring - harp; Erik Rutjes - guitar; Neldrick Martis - programming and sound design; Buleria on Reina Di Pordon (track 3)

Rayo di Lus - Ray of Light

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Izaline Calister - Speransa

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:10
Size: 117,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:28)  1. Mi Pais
(4:02)  2. Gym
(3:25)  3. Pueblo Lanta
(3:32)  4. Kalor
(3:49)  5. Porfin
(3:30)  6. Awa
(4:07)  7. La la la
(4:40)  8. Speransa
(3:26)  9. Juny
(3:52) 10. Forsa
(4:05) 11. Amigu
(4:09) 12. Preteksto
(4:59) 13. Kadena enkantá

Dutch-Curacaoan singer/songwriter Izaline Calister issued her first full-length release, Sono di un Muhe, in 2000. In 2002 Mariposa was released on Easy C Productions, followed by Krioyo in 2004 and Kanta Hélele two years later. Both discs were issued on the Network label. The release of her fifth album, Speransa, found Calister reaching number 93 on the Dutch album charts in 2009. Two years later Di Fiesta was issued on the Brigadoon label. ~ Al Campbell https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/speransa/316698431

Personnel:  Izaline Calister - lead vocals, backing vocals; Randy Cordilia - vocals; Giovanca Ostiana - backing vocals; Neco Novellas - backing vocals; Tamara Nivillac - backing vocals; Praful - backing vocals; Bart Dewin - backing vocals; Ruud Breuls - flügelhorn; Ed Verhoeff - acoustic and electric guitars; Marc Bischoff - grand piano; Yerman Aponte - electric bass; Pernell Saturnino - percussion; Roël Calister - drums, percussion

Speransa

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Izaline Calister - Kandela

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:23
Size: 110.8 MB
Styles: Caribbean rhythms
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:39] 1. Aniversario
[3:11] 2. Damelo Aqui
[4:44] 3. Gracias A La Vida
[3:49] 4. Sosega Ta Miho
[4:51] 5. Bon Man'e Un Habon
[4:28] 6. De Repente
[7:10] 7. Kantika Di Despecho
[4:26] 8. Mi Sa
[3:43] 9. Pirata Di Amor
[4:40] 10. Sirkulo
[3:37] 11. Un Kurason

Curaçaoan singer Izaline Calister recently released her seventh music album called Kandela [Fire] on which she performs Cuban boleros, Brazilian bossa novas and other Latin American music in Papiamentu, her mother tongue. In the following interview with Peter Bruyn of Het Parool she explains the Latin tang of Kandela and the purpose behind writing songs.

“My mother would listen to a lot of Curaçaoan music,” says Izaline Calister. “But my father also played all sorts of music from Latin America and we used to watch Venezuelan television every day. I thought, after six albums with strictly Antillean music, it is now time to pay attention to a different part of my heritage. After all, one of every three songs you hear in Curaçao is in Spanish, is Latin.”

Kandela is the name of the new album by the Antillean diva who lives in the Netherlands. She has dedicated it to her father. Kandela expands her musical spectrum, but it is not because of a desire to conquer the rest of South America. Calister: “I was ready to broaden my horizons anyhow. And I already did so many Brazilian songs when I studied at the Conservatory. All cultures with a slavery past basically have comparable rhythms: Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, the Antilles – it all eventually goes back to Mali and Senegal.”

Kandela

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