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Cape Verdean Blues

Kavita Shah

Label: Folkalist Records
Released: 2023
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Tracks

Angola (ft. Bau); Flor di nha esperança (ft. Bau); Joia (ft. Bau); Um abraço di morabeza (ft. Fantcha, Bau); Amor di mundo (ft. Bau); Situações Triangulares (ft. Bau); Flor de lis (ft. Bau); Cize (ft. Bau); Chaki Ben (ft. Maalam Hassan Benjaafar, Bau); Um porta aberte (ft. Bau); Sodade (ft. Bau); Cape Verdean Blues (ft. Miroca Paris).

Personnel

Kavita Shah

vocals

Fantcha

vocals

Alune Wade

bass

Maalem Hassan Benjaafar

sintir

Miroca Paris

percussion

Fernando Saci

percussion

Rogerio Boccato

percussion

Additional Personnel / Information

Zé Paris: bass (track 3).

Album Description

For the past seven years, acclaimed jazz vocalist Kavita Shah has been busy on the Atlantic island of São Vicente, immersing in the traditional mornas and coladeiras of her idol and global music legend Cesária Évora. The result is "Cape Verdean Blues" (2023, Folkalist Records)—a carefully curated love letter to Évora's breathtaking archipelago. Shah, herself a daughter of diaspora who resonated with the music’s language of longing, has teamed up with Évora’s longtime bandmates–including the master acoustic guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Bau (Évora's longtime musical director)–to create her most personal work to date: this is music that makes you want to dance and cry at the same time. "Agradeço a Cesária por me levar neste caminho, e gostaria de dedicar este disco ao povo cabo-verdiano. (I thank Cesária for bringing me on this journey, and I would like to dedicate this album to the people of Cape Verde). Thank you from the bottom of my heart!" - Kavita Shah

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