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...
January 19, 2023
Windows and Mirrors Listening Post 365. Lucibela’s soft and lovely voice calms as it penetrates the din of club, street or civilization. On her second album she presents stories that illuminate Cape Verde, her archipelago homeland, and distant shores as well. Amdjer...
July 28, 2021
Life, Love & Clouds Listening Post 312. Elida Almeda’s fourth album is a story of Cape Verde, a portrait of the generation of artists following in the footsteps of the great diva Cesária Évora, and the saga of one singer-songwriter, raised by a single mother in a...
July 9, 2018
Lift and Gravity Listening Post 158. Feather light arrangements carry Lucibela and her low, soft-power voice like a princess in an open litter, high enough off the ground so her countrymen can see how effortlessly she floats, near enough to hear her singing their...
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...
