Notes: | Traditional and popular music from Fogo Island, Cape Verde. Compact disc. Program notes and partial texts in French with English and Portuguese translations (32 p. : ill.) inserted in container. Raíz di Djarfogo (Daniel Semedo Varela (Putchota), solo vocals ; Carlos Alberto M. Cardoso (Zito), António Lopes Junior (Tony), guitar and chorus ; Luís Jorge Gomes Dias (Badiu), solo guitar ; António Carlos Mendes (Caca), tumba (percussion) ; João Pedro M. Texeira Mendes (Pépê), cavaquinho (small four-string guitar) ; Gabriel Gomes de Pina (Bié), chocalho (maracas) ; Maria Socorro Texeira (Dominguinha), solo female vocals ; João de Pina (Domingos), drum). Recorded Oct. 7 and 20, 1998 in the courtyard of São Filipe City Library, Fogo, Cape Verde. Sung in Creole.
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