April 7, 2025
Unbreaking Tradition Listening Post 387. Old fashioned… We all recognize it as a term that can go either way—tired and retrograde or classic and true. Lucibela means it in the positive sense and, with her third album, her tender and commanding voice in Cape...
December 19, 2017
Art Dancing With Life Listening Post 129. Elida Almeida describes her second album as an x-ray of Cape Verde, stories that look beneath the surface of hope and disillusion. At 24, she is a consummate singer-songwriter, blending her island homeland’s hallmark...
September 5, 2016
Tracks to an Island Home Listening Post 63. Cape Verde has a diverse musical palette, but the international renown of the late Cesária Évora skewed the island nation’s reputation toward the melancholy morna style. Lura idolized Évora, with whom she performed, but she...
