Afrosideral recorded his Afrotropical Mystic live set deep in the jungle of Bali, with voice and percussion set against Afro-Cuban electronic music and the orishas, the deities of Yoruba tradition, at its centre. Inside the set, “Líbrame de Arayé” starts on a Balinese flute, an introduction Cuban producer and vocalist Kumar Sublevao-Beat added for this version so that “the sound, the space, and the energy of the moment” can open the way before the track begins. He made this extended version for the set and shares it only live, and he says the track takes on another dimension in performance.

“Líbrame de Arayé” means “free me from envy and ill will”, and arayé comes from Lukumí, the Yoruba spoken in Cuba. Kumar dedicated the track to Obatalá, the orisha who in Lukumí belief shapes the human body before birth and whose colour, white, stands for all that is clean and pure.

Kumar started out as an MC in Havana’s hip-hop scene at the end of the 1990s, and the group he belonged to was featured in the film Habana Blues. He now lives in Europe, and Afrosideral is the name he gives his Afro-Cuban electronic work. The studio version of “Líbrame de Arayé” is the second track on El Olimpo de los Orishas, his first major release under that name, which came out on New York’s Wonderwheel Recordings in September 2019. He produced the album himself, sampling ancestral chants and instruments over electronic beats with a dub feel. It is not his first time on the island: the Bali Spirit Festival in Ubud booked him for a second year in April 2026.

Listen to the studio version of “Líbrame de Arayé” HERE and get your copy of El Olimpo de los Orishas following THIS LINK