Omar Sosa treated her like a father, Yilian Cañizares says. After one of her concerts, he welcomed her with his arms wide open and warmly congratulated her on her performance. That was the beginning of a musical friendship that, a year and a half later, found expression in a very personal album: On “Aguas,” the two musicians reflect—from the perspectives of two different generations—on life outside their homeland of Cuba. Pianist Omar Sosa, born in 1965, now lives in Barcelona after spending time in Quito, Mallorca, and San Francisco. Yilian Cañizares, born in Cuba in the 1980s, came to Switzerland via Venezuela to study violin and, inspired by the music of Stéphane Grappelli, discovered both jazz and singing there. Supported by Gustavo Ovalles on drums, the two seek to gently and creatively reinterpret their relationship to their roots and the traditions of their homeland through music.