Mélusine is the seventh solo studio album by American jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, released on March 24, 2023, by Nonesuch Records.
[3] Salvant produced the album with Tom Korkidis, and her band included percussionist Weedie Braimah, pianists Sullivan Fortner and Aaron Diehl, bassists Paul Sikivie and Luques Curtis, drummers Kyle Pool and Obed Calvaire, and saxophonist Godwin Louis.
[6] Salvant said she first connected with the story's inclusion of "that alone time, that Room of One's Own, as Virginia Woolf put it, and how difficult it is to find that and protect it", but later also identified with Raymondin's desire to not allow one's partner to have a world outside the relationship.
[6] Salvant also described the album as being about "that feeling of being a hybrid, a mixture of different cultures, which I've experienced not only as the American-born child of two first generation immigrants, but as someone raised in a family that is racially mixed, from several different countries, with different languages spoken in the home.
[6] Slate's Fred Kaplan said the album is "as much cabaret, Renaissance, mystical, and folk as it is jazz ... with songs spanning from the 12th century to vaudeville ditties and Broadway showtunes to a few Salvant originals".