Ana Carla Maza is a twenty-something singer and cellist blessed with charisma, talent and a neat backstory: she is the daughter of star Chilean pianist Carlos Maza and Cuban guitarist Mirza Sierra, with whom she performed in the Carlos Maza Trio as a tween, releasing an album, En Familia, in 2010. Ana Carla’s talent shone then and is positively beaming now: written for a quartet, performed solo, this second album is a boundaries-down melding of jazz, classical music, unhurried Cuban son and swaying Brazilian samba and bossa nova, made more distinctive by virtuosic string work and lyrics sung in silvery French and Spanish.

Lead single ‘A Tomar Café’ (‘To Drink Coffee’) unfurls with sensual flair, with strings plucked just so over a 3/2 clave beat. Maza tells of dreamy days over a piano montuno, all of it refracted through a nostalgic, Buena Vista-style lense. Elsewhere, folk rhythms including jaunty Peruvian huayno blend with the jazz harmonies and classical sonorities Maza honed at the Conservatoire de Paris (notably, cello played as either 1950s jazz bass or bowed concerto style). Stand out track ‘Miriam Valdés’ is dedicated to the late sister of jazz pianist Chucho Valdés, who taught Maza music as a child. Lovely stuff, with bigger things to come.