Title: Strings Of Sao Domingos Artist: Ano Nobo Quartet Label: Ostinato Records Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 827565062898 Genre: Blues
Vinyl LP pressing. In the small inland town of So Domingos on Cape Verde's Santiago Island, The Ano Nobo Quartet delivers a fresh take on Koladera, a guitar-driven, subtly rhythmic sound of a lighter spirit. Their sound tells a global story with Cape Verde at it's center, a creole melting pot in the middle of the Atlantic attracting the best from four continents: hypnotic, haunting Koladera guitars inflected with twangs of Salsa Cubano, Spanish Flamenco, Brazilian Samba Cano, Jamaican Reggae, Argentine Tango, Mozambican Marrabenta, and finished with a dash of Black American Blues. It's all here. Absent percussion, the quartet's sound still drips with rhythm. Rich, raw acoustic music you can dance to. This album was recorded in early 2021 in three locations on Santiago Island: at homes, by the ocean, and on the volcanic hills of Cape Verde. Each location used a mobile recording studio equipped with different mics placed near and far to capture both the Spanish and Chinese-made guitars and the natural environment that shapes the saudade, a melancholic longing, of Koladera. Each space has it's own atmosphere heard in the interludes.
Tracks: 1.1 Intro 1.2 Sociedad Di Mocindadi 1.3 Tio Bernar 1.4 Badia Di Fora 1.5 Maria Cze Bu Tem 1.6 Canta Ku Alma Magoado 1.7 Interldio 1.8 Elefantes 1.9 Mie Fogo 1.10 Mulatinha Vai 1.11 Interldio Do Mar 1.12 Pascoal's Baixo 1.13 Lolinha 1.14 Interldio 1.15 Tio Bernar (Alternativa)
