“Color Paraná” is named after one image: the ochre, deep colour of the Paraná river that runs past Rosario in Argentina, carried in the eyes of a lover left on the far side of the ocean. It’s the new single from Luazó, the project of French guitarist and composer Robin Gentien, and a love song that moves between Paris, Rosario and San Basilio de Palenque, the Afro-Colombian town near Cartagena.

Luazó started as his goodbye to Latin America: Gentien cut the first EP in Buenos Aires the week before he left the continent, after years on the move, and the project came out of playing with Colombian drummer Pablo Cruz. It’s part Latin jazz, part what he calls desert cumbia, a slow and slightly cheeky groove, with a guitar that owes as much to Tinariwen and Ali Farka Touré as to Santana.

The song carries the ache of distance and a breakup, and underneath it the wish to come back and start again. Out via the Paris label Panache and recorded at the city’s Studio Hippocampus, “Color Paraná” folds a decade of Gentien’s travelling between Europe and the Americas into one warm, unhurried cumbia.

Stream “Color Paraná” HERE