Ecuadorian bassist, singer, songwriter and composer. She mixes the music of her origins with jazz and performs numerous concerts in France and abroad. His talent and his taste for improvised music lead him to share the stage with great figures of jazz and world music. In Karishina, her new album, Helena Recalde and her musicians alternately interpret original compositions, traditional Latin American songs, as well as a theme from the jazz repertoire ("Afro Blue"). Within this musical universe, the nostalgia of Andean melodies mixes with the piquant joy of Afro Pacific rhythms, passing through jazz tones and their dizzying improvisations, all embellished with textures of nature and committed titles.