Kavita shah –

Cape verdean blues

Award-winning jazz vocalist and composer Kavita Shah's latest album, Cape Verdean Blues, is the culmination of a diasporic quest for a spiritual home. The carefully curated album of traditional Cape Verdean music is also a tribute to the charismatic and unapologetically individual artist Cesária Évora, and a love letter to her breathtaking archipelago and it's welcoming people. Shah is a lifelong New Yorker of Indian origin hailed for possessing an amazing dexterity for musical languages" (NPR), and she speaks 9 languages-including fluent Portuguese and Cape Verdean Kriolu. At the heart of the 12-song album is "sodade," the melancholy sense of transience that permeates Cape Verde and it's free-spirited island population. On Cape Verdean Blues, Shah's in-depth collaboration with master guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Bau (Cesária's former musical director) and her bold self-possession have enabled her to achieve a rare feat: creating a world music album that feels like home."

Country of Pressing	US
Artist	Kavita Shah
Released	2023
Music Genre	Blues and Pop / Rock
Label	FOLKALIST RECORDS
Condition	New
UPC	860010636305
SKU	al-860010636305

1.1 Angola
1.2 Flor Di Nha Esperança
1.3 Joia
1.4 Um Abraço Di Morabeza (Feat. Fantcha)
1.5 Amor Di Mundo
1.6 Situações Triangulares
1.7 Flor de Lis
1.8 Cize
1.9 Chaki Ben (Feat. Maalem Hassan Benjaafar)
1.10 Um Porta Aberte
1.11 Sodade
1.12 Cape Verdean Blues (Feat. Miroca Paris)