Kebrada
Elida Almeida
Pour me a grog : the funána revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde
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Anmeldelser (2)
Blogcritics
2019
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Richard Marcus
2019
"The music itself is amazing. The temptation is to compare it to Zydeco, but that could simply be because both are fronted by accordions. Funana makes Zydeco look tame and refined. Funana is wild and unchecked with improvisation being a major component of its creation. In fact many of the songs on this disc were pretty much created just before the bands recorded them ... As in all of Ostinato's recordings Pour Me A Grog comes with a wonderful booklet that delves deep into the history of Funana. Even more important it supplies profiles of the key musicians on the recordings through interviews with them or surviving family members. Through this we not only get a glimpse into their lives, but the music which sustained them and their communities.Pour Me A Grog - The Funana Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde is a great collection of exciting and stirring music".
Songlines
2020 January/February
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Gonçalo Frota
2020 January/February
"[Funána is a] hypnotic music born in the interior villages of Santiago [Cape Verde] at the beginning of the 20th century. For several years, its rural background and its physical nature made it a music forbidden by the Portuguese colonisers, who preferred to be entertained by morna, a genre more elegant and less prone to ignite any kind of revolt. So funaná only became truly popular after Cape Verde's independence in 1975, with the groups Bulimundo and Finaçon becoming the first national phenomena a decade later. Pour Me A Grog, a marvellous, albeit short compilation (...), is a valuable portrait of funána in the 90s, when it finally started to be documented in the studio. The collection doesn't fail to summon up crucial protagonists like Ferro Gaita and Bitori Nha Bibinha, with their infectious gaita (diatonic accordion) leading steamy and frantic tracks like 'Rei di Tabanka' and 'Mô na Máma'. But the release also sheds some light on lesser-known Fefé di Calbicera and Etalvinho Preta, and the prodigious Orlando Pantera".