Cape Verde
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Music CD Cover Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 1999-10-12 Music Label: Putumayo World Music Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Cape Verde Album
Free Music Review: That "sodade" feeling...
Hit: 4 Stars
The CD opens with what is possibly the best cut of this compilation, the hauntingly beautiful "Chico Malandro (Bad Boy)" by Ana Firmino and Tito Paris. Lyrically, he song deals with love, and musically it consists of a series of returning choruses that alternate with verses. This dual form is further reinforced within each of the verses, when Ana Firmino's calls in a higher octave are followed by her own response an octave lower. But it is that sense of bittersweet yearning that gives this song (indeed the whole Cape Verde album) its mysterious quality. This mood carries over to the next cuts, Boy Gé Mendes's "Cumba Iêtu," with a more percussive Latin feel, the Brazilian flavored "Pays Sol (Sun Country)" by Nana Matias, accordion-driven "Nha Fe (My Faith)" by Teofilo Chantre and "Cabo Verde Manda Mantenha (Cape Verde Sends its Greeting)" by Cesaria Evora, Cape Verde's first international star. Bana's African "Cabinda a Cunene (Cabinda to Cunene)" and Maria Alice's "Sol Na Tchada (Sun on the Field)" (with a curious klezmer arrangement) maintain the feel until the compilation runs out of steam. The next five cuts must've been included for their messages and political significance and only "Tchon di Massa Pé (On Solid Ground)" stands up musically to the previous examples.
Still, Putumayo did an excellent job selecting, packaging and popularizing these songs. In our increasingly homogeneous global culture it is refreshing to know there are some unique cultural expressions left, although they are disappearing fast. Maybe that's one of the reasons that make 'sodade' such a universal emotion...