Tag: Cape Verde
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Arp Frique back with essential record for the ever-trusty Rush Hour – with legendary vocalists Americo Brito and Marissa Nyamekye – championed as always by label boss and international taste-maker, Antal Heitlager
Arp Frique returns with a record brimming with highlife, cosmic synths and New York disco elements, all via the Caribbean and Cape Verde. After the full album The Colourful World of Arp Frique for Rush Hour in 2018, this new 12″ explores funana and Caribbean zouk, this time with a more 1980s influenced approach (classic…
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Coladera are exploring new directions of music from Cape Verde with new album ‘La Dôtu Lado’ on Agogo Records
Coldera’s La Dôtu Lado maps new musical routes of Cape Verde. The country’s island sounds of batuque and funaná mix with deep candomblé inspired rhythms and the sway of fado. Coladera are three musicians from Brazil, Cape Verde and Portugal and for their first official international release have added new layers to rich traditions. Singer-guitarist Vitor Santana…
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World Treasures Music end of year review
Click here to listen to the World Treasures Music review mix. A number of artists’ passing will make 2016 memorable. A champion of world treasures at the legendary New York venue, The Loft, was David Mancuso, who was mourned widely in the music world after his death aged 72. Sun Palace’s Rude Movements was remastered…
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Huge release brings the cosmic Cape Verde sound to the world
Analog Africa’s next release is already making waves collecting some of the rarest and most sought after records at present. Space Echo: The Mystery Behind The Cosmic Sound Of Cabo Verde – building on the compiling of labels like Sofrito – will rightly highlight this island’s masterpieces. There’s an amazing tale being told about how…
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