Mélusine CD + MP3 Bundle

Mélusine CD + MP3 BundleCcile McLorin Salvants album Mlusine features a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the twelfth century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyl, that tell the folk tale of Mlusine, a woman who turns into a half snake each Saturday after a childhood curse by her mother. Mlusine agrees to marry Raymondin on the condition that he never see her on Saturdays. He agrees but is later

her second consecutive album of original material

and Henry Mancini

including traditional fado songs

When Nonesuch Records celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014

is "astonishing

" The Daily Beast calls it "a sublime collection of baroque pop

it was dubbed into the Italian by Anderson herself

and others

Ten of the album’s 15 pieces are previously unreleased

his equally legendary wife

unorthodox record

from ukulele to piano to drum machine to abacus