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The culture-melding Colombian Canadian musician Lido Pimienta returned from a half-decade break between albums with last year’s classical excursion La Belleza<\/a><\/em>. Having conquered that stuffy realm, she’s loosening up and having fun on new album Caribenya<\/em>, due out in July. The title is a portmanteau combining Caribe, referring to the indigenous Caribbean population, and Enya, referring to the Irish new age singer. Here’s how Pimienta explains the new project:<\/p>\n Someone told me that making a classical album was gonna be impossible for me and I did it, an \u201cimpossible-only-Europeans-could-ever-do-this album\u201d; Caribenya<\/em> is the counterpart where I got to be less cerebral and have more fun. With my friends, I’m more collaborative, because I usually work alone; it has a sense of joy and collaboration that is very Caribbean. It\u2019s like “come over and hang. You don\u2019t need to set up an appointment, you can just knock on the door.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Our first taste of that approach in practice is lead single “T\u00f3xica,” a cumbia track addressing a bad friend. In director JC Molina’s video, Pimienta is in the woods, surrounded by characters like her real-life children and (real-life?) men made of grass. (Grassquatch?) Watch below.<\/p>\n\n