When asked about the origins of ‘Ton Amour,’ ALA.NI said, “This song mixes two lovers: a kind of Belgian Brad Pitt, and someone I met in Jamaica who behaved in a very disturbing way. I was on the beach with a friend, upset, trying to understand what had happened—how this person had emotionally trapped me and found pleasure in my distress. The situation was clearly becoming dangerous. I don’t want to point fingers at Jamaica, but unfortunately, the rate of femicide there is one of the highest in the world. I knew I had to leave; at least this experience led to a song.”

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Rhythmically rich, ‘Summer Meadows’ blends ALA.NI’s delicate vocals with warm brass arrangements and deep contrabass tones. Drawing inspiration from Jamaican carnival and the nostalgia of winter daydreams, the track captures the joy and longing for sunshine.

“I definitely wrote this one under my duvet, wishing for sunshine,” says ALA.NI. “It was December 2023, and mentally, I was back in Jamaica.” The track features collaborator Clément Petit on cello — playing in place of traditional contrabass — and a radiant horn section by Okiel McIntyre, a musician ALA.NI met while living in Jamaica. “I needed someone who knew what Caribbean sunshine feels like. I called him out of the blue—and he just happened to be flying into Paris to play with The Skatalites a few days later, so I grabbed him.”

The accompanying video is as evocative as the track itself — made entirely from rare archive footage of Trinidad Carnival in 1959.

Co-produced once again with Petit (Asynchrone, Roseaux), the single expands the genre-fluid sound introduced with ‘Something You Said’ — where jazz, bossa nova, and calypso flow together with ease — with ‘Summer Meadows’ bringing a playful sense of groove and storytelling to the fore.

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