Various Artists - Pour Me A Grog: The Funaná Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde (2019)
african; latin; cumbia; dance | 00:40:36 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 301,73 MB
Label: Ostinato Records LLC
In the 1950s, a few young men, known as Badius, embarked on a nearly 2,500-mile (4000 km) journey from the northern rural interior of Cabo Verde’s Santiago Island to the island of São Tomé off the Atlantic coast of central Africa. Incredibly, they made the arduous journey not to earn a better living or send money back home — but to simply buy an accordion, locally known as a gaita. They would work years in harsh conditions to earn enough to buy the instrument and a few more years to buy a ticket back to Santiago.