PUBLISHED: Oct 04, 2016
DESCRIPTION:
Funana The forbidden music of the Cabo Verde Islands
tracks - Cruz di Pico - Natalia
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's musical adventure had begun long before this point. It was 1954 when he embarked on a journey across the seas to the island of Sao Tomé & Principe. The young man's hope was to return to Cabo Verde with an accordion.
Warning : In the likely case of a dancefloor on fire - Do not evacuate the Discotheque