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artist.....: VA
album......: Space Echo - The Mystery Behind the Cos
year.......: 2016
label......: Analog Africa
AA080
source.....: WEB
moodswing..: Funk
releasesize: 159.00 MB
tracks.....: 15
length.....: 69:22
encoder....: LAME
quality....: 320kbps
scenealized: 05.27.2016
In the spring of 1968 a cargo ship was
preparing to leave the port of
Baltimore with an important shipment of
musical instruments. Its final
destination was Rio De Janeiro, where
the EMSE Exhibition (Exposicao Mundial
Do Son Eletronico) was going to be
held.
It was the first expo of its kind to
take place in the Southern Hemisphere
and many of the leading companies in
the field of electronic music were
involved. Rhodes, Moog, Farfisa,
Hammond and Korg, just to name a few,
were all eager to present their newest
synthesisers and other gadgets to a
growing and promising South American
market, spearheaded by Brazil and
Colombia.
The ship with the goods set sail on the
20th of March on a calm morning and
mysteriously disappeared from the radar
on the very same day.
One can only imagine the surprise of
the villagers of Cachaco, on the Sao
Nicolau island of Cabo Verde, when a
few months later they woke up and found
a ship stranded in their fields, in the
middle of nowhere, 8 km from any
coastline. After consulting with the
village elders, the locals had decided
to open the containers to see what was
inside û however gossip as
scintillating as this travels fast and
colonial police had already arrived and
secured the area.
Portuguese scientists and physicians
were ordered to the scene and after
weeks of thorough studies and research,
it was concluded that the ship had
fallen from the sky. One of the less
plausible theories was that it might
have fallen from a Russian military air
carrier. The locals joked that again
the government had wasted their tax
money on a useless exercise, as a
simple look at the crater generated by
the impact could explain the phenomena.
'No need for Portuguese rocket
scientists to explain this!' they
laughed.
What the villagers didn't know, was
that traces of cosmic particles were
discovered on the boat. The bow of the
ship showed traces of extreme heat,
very similar to traces found on
meteors, suggesting that the ship had
penetrated the hemisphere at high
speed. That theory also didn't make
sense as such an impact would have
reduced the ship to dust. Mystery
permeated the event.
Finally, a team of welders arrived to
open the containers and the whole
village waited impatiently. The
atmosphere, which had been filled with
joy and excitement, quickly gave way to
astonishment. Hundreds of boxes
conjured, all containing keyboards and
other instruments which they had never
seen before: and all useless in an area
devoid of electricity. Disappointment
was palpable. The goods were
temporarily stored in the local church
and the women of the village had
insisted a solution be found before
Sunday mass.
It is said that charismatic anti-
colonial leader Amilcar Cabral had
ordered for the instruments to be
distributed equally in places that had
access to electricity, which placed
them mainly in schools. This
distribution was best thing that could
have happened - keyboards found fertile
grounds in the hands of curious
children, born with an innate sense of
rhythm who picked up the ready-to-use
instruments. This in turn facilitated
the modernisation of local rhythms such
as Mornas, Coladeras and the highly
danceable music style called Funana,
which had been banned by the Portuguese
colonial rulers until 1975 due to its
sensuality!
The observation was made that the
children who came into contact with the
instruments found on the ship inherited
prodigious capabilities to understand
music and learn instruments. One of
them was the musical genius Paulino
Vieira, who by the end of the 70s would
become the country's most important
music arranger.
8 out of the 15 songs presented in this
compilation had been recorded with the
backing of the band Voz de Cabo Verde,
lead by Paulino Vieira, the mastermind
behind the creation and promulgation of
what is known today as 'The Cosmic
Sound of Cabo Verde'.
URL:
https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album
/space-echo-the-mystery-behind-the-
cosmic-sound-of-cabo-verde-finally-
revealed
psst, more info at http://analogafrica.com/
01 Antonio Sanches - Pinta Manta 04:32
02 Dionisio Maio - Dia Ja Manche 04:37
03 Jose Casimiro - Morti Sta Bidja`Cu 05:22
04 Bana - Pontin & Pontin 04:15
05 Fany Havest - That Day 05:01
06 Pedrinho - Odio Sem Valor 06:04
07 Quirino Do Canto - Mino Di Mama 05:53
08 Tchiss Lopes - Mundo D'Margura 03:04
09 Joπo Cirilo - Po D'Terra 05:38
10 Abel Lima - Corre Riba, Corre Baxo 03:08
11 Os Apolos - Ilyne 03:50
12 Americo Brito - Sintado Na Pracinha 02:52
13 Elisio Vieir - Capchona 03:15
14 Antonio Dos Santos - Djal Bai Si Camin 07:20
15 Abel Lima - Stebo Cu Anabela 04:31