| · If you can’t feel the passion, you must be dead.
It’s rarely easy to make sense of the changes in our lives, and this is one of the reasons we read poetry, listen to music and look at paintings, sculptures or films. If you’re among those struggling to understand the vagaries of fate, there could be few better companions than Lhasa De Sela, who, after six long years, has finally released the follow-up to her 1997 debut La Llorona. As its title suggests, The Living Road looks at the mutable nature of life and the metamorphoses that are necessary to remain hopeful in an indifferent universe.
Formally, the record echoes its lyrical concerns – with her sexy cabaret-style delivery, Lhasa sings in Spanish, French and English, backed by a polyglot orchestra playing world music from everywhere and nowhere. Incorporating Middle Eastern clarinet, European glockenspiel and Mexican mariachi guitar among other mellifluous sounds, The Living Road is an intensely passionate love letter urging all of us to release the soul that resides so deeply inside.
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