ya no me llames

The song ya no me llames sounds like an intimate release recorded in the very place where the longest hours were lived. Kevin Kaarl wrote it after an emotional breakdown, when words became heavy and silence started to weigh less. The track unfolds with a cadence that doesn’t seek adornment: just the voice and a guitar that seems to breathe in sync with the lyrics. There’s something in that home-recorded sound that makes it instantly recognizable, as if the entire album had been born between walls that echo what will never return.

Recorded in Chihuahua with equipment no fancier than garage tools, the album Ultra Sodade —released on February 14, 2025— was crafted by two brothers: Kevin and Bryan Kaarl. The latter took charge of production and mixing, marking his formal debut in a process that remains foreign to many artists. The album’s title plays with the idea of nostalgia taken to the extreme, using the Cape Verdean term *sodade* as a foundation for a feeling Kaarl has explored before, but here pushed to a darker edge. The thirteen songs on the album were composed within that same span of time, as if the pain had needed its own space to turn into music.