The third album from Afro-Cuban French twins Lisa-Kainde and Naomi Diaz who together are Ibeyi. Spell 31 is released today, 06/05/2022 on XL Recordings. Inspired by the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, this is a record celebrating their multitudes are harnessing their power to heal others. Features collaborations with Pa Salieu, Jorja Smith, BERWYN, Dave Okumu, Ben Reed and Owen Pallett, with production by Richard Russell.
“Ibeyi’s Spell 31 is their boldest offering yet, an antidote to apathy in a divided world,” explains activist and storyteller Janaya Future Khan in an essay on Spell 31 commissioned after Ibeyi met Khan late last year. They explain further, “Spell 31 casts with conviction, transmuting nihilism into sangoma, binaries into endless dualites, moral austerity into abundance. A subversive and halcyonic manifesto from queens of a sovereign land, Ibeyi occupies the liminal, the space between life and death, past and present, right and wrong, and calls for the interior revelations that create the systemic revolutions we long for.”
Spell 31 tracklisting;
1. Sangoma
2. O Inle
3. Made of Gold feat. Pa Salieu
4. Sister 2 Sister
5. Creature (Perfect)
6. Tears Are Our Medicine
7. Foreign Country
8. Lavender & Red Roses feat. Jorja Smith
9. Rise Above feat. BERWYN
10. Los Muertos
Ibeyi:
