Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica
March 2, 2017 8:16 AM Subscribe
"Via Bandcamp's Album of the Day blog: 'Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica From the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988' By 1975, the Cape Verde islands and Guinea-Bissau were free from Portuguese rule, embarking on the long journey of post-colonial reformation. Throughout the next decade and a half, the cultural life of the Cape Verdean islands exploded, giving birth to a number of bands who took the islands’ traditional/indigenous styles and fused them with Portuguese fado (the folk music of Portugal’s urban poor and working class), while also taking influences from the rock and R&B sounds that had been coming over from the States.
"This eclectic mixture of musical ingredients helped produce a dynamic music community that would carry the spirit of the Cape Verde islands around the world.
"[The album] explores the broad range of electrifying music that blossomed up from this small cluster of islands. Primarily consisting of guitar-and-keyboard-driven, uptempo dance music, the tracks have strong stylistic resemblances to other musical styles of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora, most notably zouk music—as well as Trinidadian soca and the bachata music of the Dominican Republic."
"This eclectic mixture of musical ingredients helped produce a dynamic music community that would carry the spirit of the Cape Verde islands around the world.
"[The album] explores the broad range of electrifying music that blossomed up from this small cluster of islands. Primarily consisting of guitar-and-keyboard-driven, uptempo dance music, the tracks have strong stylistic resemblances to other musical styles of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora, most notably zouk music—as well as Trinidadian soca and the bachata music of the Dominican Republic."
Sounds cool, thanks. Tavares of 'Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel," fame are of Cape Verdean-American extraction as well, IIRC.
posted by jonmc at 12:25 PM on March 2, 2017
posted by jonmc at 12:25 PM on March 2, 2017
Thanks for this!
posted by languagehat at 12:59 PM on March 2, 2017
posted by languagehat at 12:59 PM on March 2, 2017
Right, that's going to be my work soundtrack tomorrow.
posted by MartinWisse at 1:28 PM on March 2, 2017
posted by MartinWisse at 1:28 PM on March 2, 2017
This is soooooooo great. Love these crate-digger labels.
Here are some of my other favorites:
Laila Je T'aime (Sahel guitar music)
Turkish Freakout
Persian Funk
Cold Heat - Heavy Funk Rarities
posted by JoeBlubaugh at 8:34 PM on March 2, 2017
Here are some of my other favorites:
Laila Je T'aime (Sahel guitar music)
Turkish Freakout
Persian Funk
Cold Heat - Heavy Funk Rarities
posted by JoeBlubaugh at 8:34 PM on March 2, 2017
If you like this, don't miss out on Analog Africa's Space Echo - The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed! .. as well as everything else they release.
posted by kmkrebs at 10:29 PM on March 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by kmkrebs at 10:29 PM on March 2, 2017 [2 favorites]
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