Fattú Djakité - Badja Tina
A story of silence and resistance
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Cesária Evora & Compay Segundo – Lágrimas Negras
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cesaria-evora-compay-segundo-lagrimas-negras/
Recorded in Havana (Cuba) in 1999 by Cesária Evora and Compay Segundo, for a special limited edition of the album “São Vicente di Longe” (2001), and re-released in 2010 in the duet album “&…”.
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Mario Lucio - Independance
https://youtu.be/JeutVXRGJnA
"50 years after the independence of Cape Verde and the other ex-Portuguese colonies, Mario Lucio releases an album celebrating this great moment of change in Lusophone Africa.
Singer, guitarist, composer, poet, writer, thinker and even former Minister of Culture: Mario Lucio is all these things and more for Cape Verdeans."
Lura – Nos Diva (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lura-nos-diva/
Lura in a live tribute To Cesária Evora.
They appeared together on the album “Cesária Evora & …”, a compilation of duos with multiple artists, released in 2010 and covering multiple genres from AfroCuban to Morna and Son. […]
Edited 277d ago
Cesaria Evora on a banknote
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cesaria-evora-banknote/
Cesária Evora on a 2000 Escudos (20 Euros) banknote in 2014. It should be noted, she usually told she didn't trust banks…
Edited 244d ago
Viva Africando
https://amf.didiermary.fr/viva-africando-album-2013/
¡Viva Africando! ¡Viva! (2013)
Africando’s 8th (and last) studio album, this is the first not recorded primarily in New York. This time the Africando masterminds, producer Ibrahima Sylla and arranger Boncana Maïga, bring New York’s top Latin musicians – led by pianist Oscar Hernandez – to Paris. There they reunite with the group’s vocal stars, […]
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Bitori – Legend Of Funaná
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bitori-legend-of-funana/
In 1997, a quiet, unassuming man of 59 years old named Victor Tavares – better know as Bitori – walks into a studio for the very first time to record a masterpiece which many Cabo Verdean consider to be the best Funaná album ever made. […]
Bitori nha Bibinha (live - Utrecht)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22PdrHe7GBs
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Bandé-Gamboa – Pé di bissilon (Horizonte)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/horizonte-bande-gamboa-pe-di-bissilon-remix/
Originally, the record Horizonte brought together artists from Lisbon’s African scene (under the name Bandé-Gamboa), to celebrate gumbé and funaná. These 2 genres form the musical heritage of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, repressed during the Portuguese colonial era.
On this remix, Detroit Swindle keep the African spirit of the original track alive, mixing it [...]
Edited 21d ago
Bandé-Gamboa – Dunia Bé Téné (Horizonte)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bande-gamboa-horizonte-dunia-be-tene/
Bandé-Gamboa is a project made up of two All-Star bands, created to reinterpret extremely rare or unreleased tracks from Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde, a project explicitly dedicated to the living memory of Amílcar Cabral, the intellectual force and strategist behind the independence of both countries, whose dream was to have them forever united. Founder of […]
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