{"id":41463,"date":"2019-09-17T18:24:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/ostinato-records-is-set-to-release-his-third-episode-of-funana-music\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:34:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:34:20","slug":"ostinato-records-funana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/ostinato-records-funana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostinato Records is set to release his third episode of Funan\u00e1 music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After the excellent compilation Synthesize the Soul<\/em> and the reissue of the best album of Grupo Pilon, Ostinato Records continues to releasing music of Cape Verde and its European diaspora with an essential collection.<\/h4>\n

In the 1950s, a few young men, known as Badius, embarked on a nearly 2,500-mile (4000 km) journey from the northern rural interior of Cabo Verde\u2019s Santiago Island to the island of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 not to earn a better living\u00a0 \u2014 but to simply buy an accordion, locally known as a gaita.<\/p>\n

Over the years the gaita became the maximum expression of Badiu identity, one defined over centuries by a persistent culture of revolt and rebellion against domination and injustice, as Bitori explained to PAM in a 2017 interview<\/a>. Slowly Funan\u00e1 music became infused with inviting baselines, raucous rhythms, blade-on-iron percussion and the bubbling lyricism and lament of the island\u2019s finest ambassadors,\u00a0but\u00a0Funan\u00e1 remained an isolated style, largely an affair for Badiu ears only.<\/p>\n

During the ’90s music festivals became the most successful campaigns for Political parties,\u00a0setting the stage for traditional Funan\u00e1\u2019s entry into the mainstream. In 1997 the band Ferro Gaita changed the entire trajectory of the country\u2019s music, by selling 40,000 copies in a country of just 400,000\u00a0of their first album. The\u00a0album\u00a0reached out the ears of producers from the Cape Verdean diaspora living in Europe, especially in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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