This song's elements are very colorful, I like the jangle ramble of it.

from: 'Titina Canta B.Leza' (STCD3064) available 10th Sept. 2013

A landmark Cape Verdean album, re-mastered and re-packaged to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

In the cosy Creole town of Mindelo in Cape Verde, Titina used to wake each morning to follow the smell of fresh corn bread and coffee which would lead her to her neighbouring house and to the bewitching chords of its owner, legendary Cape Verdean composer, poet and activist B. Leza (1905 – 1958).

From the age of four Titina made these visits, standing with her curious, dark brown eyes to watch him at work, and with such focus and attention that soon B. Leza sat Titina in his lap and began teaching her how to sing his songs. So began a life of music for Titina, who began recording singles by the country’s greatest composers from the age of 15. Finally in 1988 she felt ready to start organising her lifetime dream: to record a selection of recordings by B. Leza.

Produced and arranged by Paulino Vieira who also produced and arranged for Cesaria Evora, the album ‘Titina Canta B. Leza’ was immediately applauded as a classic by her fellow Cape Verdeans and sold out many times over upon its initial release, and then again when it was re-issued upon CD. Now we hope this definitive edition, prepared by Astral Music in partnership with Titina, will be with us for a long time to come and help seal the gap that the many years of it being unavailable have created.

Today it has been 25 years since Titina recorded these songs and like her music, the islands of Cape Verde are also becoming better known, not just for their sunny climate but because of icons such as B. Leza who gave them their sound. As these sounds made their way to seduce across the world, it is B. Leza who lead this great voyage and Titina who lent her voice to his magnetic and inspiring songs.

“Yes, the music is on...and there go the people again to the small bay...sit calm, listen to the waves and look at the last minutes of the sun diving away...because the working day is gone and another night of sweet serenade is about to come...”

---	An ASTRAL MUSIC Production	---

Titina - Note de Mindelo from Titina Canta B.Leza (remastered and re-issued Sept 2013)

OSVALDO FRESEDO - BUSCANDOTE

Carlos Di Sarli  Voc. Roberto Florio

My One And Only Thrill

Your Heart Is As Black As Night

Felino

Regina

Berlin Tango

La Milonga Del Senor Blanco

Otros Aires Perro Viejo

Rupa & the April Fishes - "build"

Tocá Tangó

Tango Negro

Narcotango

Otra Luna

01 Otros Aires 4 - El porteñito

Four years, festivals and village concerts on three continents, two previous albums, several languages from Hindi to Tzotzil to French, many musical traditions, and countless moments of joy, sorrow, loss, and transformation were the construction materials that came together for Rupa and the April Fishes’ riveting new album Build. This collaboration with brilliant producer Todd Sickafoose travels the long road from solitude to solidarity in both directions.

The band's first album Extraordinary Rendition examines love from many angles, with lyrics mostly in French; the second Este Mundo traces the plight of migrants crossing borders, largely in Spanish; Build is their first album primarily in English. Its twelve songs arise from this particularly tender moment of global upheaval, from the collapse of capitalism and false democracies to the rise of populist movements from Tunisia to Chile to Athens to Wall Street. Playing live to varied audiences around the world has been the best way to carry out their mandate of learning how to see what is invisible and combat widespread social demoralization, the source that feeds these songs.

The musicians, Aaron Kierbel and Safa Shokrai, Misha Khalikulov and Mario Alberto Silva, came from all over the world and converged in San Francisco to become the April Fishes with ringleader Rupa whose Hindustani roots settled in California. In their work together, musical languages converge from around the world; from punk to indie rock, from reggae to raga to rockabolly, chanson to cumbia, from Malian guitar patterns to mournful duduk melodies. In other times and places musical traditions have met to forge a sound that is more insistence than resistance; this band, this album, belong to that long tradition of rebel music.

This music is strictly organic, nuclear-free, post-national, many-headed and decidedly unclean.

Rupa & the April Fishes - "build"

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