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Browsing All posts tagged under »Mayra Andrade«
CD review: Carmen Souza – Protegid
October 5, 2010 by Culture Capital
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Belying its tiny size and inhospitable geography, the Atlantic Ocean’s Cape Verde Islands packs a punch in the music world, consistently producing artists of outstanding talent. Perhaps it is the expat state-of-mind of the nation (an inert labour market has pushed something more than half of people with origins in the country to live overseas) […]
CD review: Mayra Andrade – Stória Stória
December 29, 2009 by Culture Capital
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An overnight star was born when Mayra Andrade’s debut album, Navega, was released in 2006. Gloriously sunny but full of energy, anchored with Cape Verdean rhythms but always looking afield for inspiration, it was one of those ‘of the moment’ records for world music. Inevitable comparisons were drawn with the original Cape Verdean diva, Cesaria […]
Festival preview – 2009 London Jazz Festival
October 24, 2009 by Culture Capital
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The full line-up for the 2009 LJF (produced by Serious) has now been released and as ever, it’s going to be an extremely busy week in November, with gigs at a dizzying variety of venues across town. The festival has really been pushing itself outside jazz’s traditional boundaries over the last few years, broadening its […]
July 10, 2011 by Culture Capital
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