About Lido Pimienta's Caribenya
The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist Lido Pimienta —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art – is announcing 'Caribenya’ today, a new album steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: connection, resistance, and a desire to push sonic boundaries. Coming out July 17, the lead track is “Tóxica”, a diatribe against bad friendship set to a fiery cumbia. The classic Afro-Indigenous revolt rhythm, one Pimienta is a modern master of, is sharpened by her soaring vocals, ethereal harp plucking, a warm viola, a sonidero’s command to dance, and electronic melodies that blow up the song to bursting, rage transmuting into forgiveness.
Always a creator of stunning visuals, Pimienta’s video for the song features ‘The Blair Witch Project’-esque forest footage, men made of grass and cameos from her own daughter and son.