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volcanic mountains looked out over an endless expanse of c, the in contrast to the rugged landscape. the special sound of cape bird, music is luxury and soulful and melancholy. the best you know him in the 15th century, portuguese sailors discovered the uninhabited archipelago. under the mostly barren volcanic islands are fringed with endless speeches, fishing, agriculture, and tourism. are the main sources of income for the cape verde and
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the deals and the shaking things up around here. that's new. know the drummer, it's only 4 weeks to carnival, a beloved cape verde and tradition. it's the most important date in the countries calendar. nuno has 2 things to take care of before that building drums and finding more drummers for the carnival parade. the sports field is a wash with new challenge, not just athletic, but musical to take 12 year old jobs on those of the to this years. this 1st time, he's never played as
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a carnival before. he doesn't know how to do it yet. we're doing basic training here. but i'm nervous. goosebumps already. i've never done this before, and i don't want to do anything wrong. the . an independent african country cape, virgin islands are located some 600 kilometers west of synagogue in the atlantic ocean. 9 of the islands are inhabited. there are also smaller uninhabited islands. santa and tell is the greenest, and perhaps the most beautiful of the cape virgin islands. and serves as the islanders fruit and vegetable garden. the sugarcane
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flowers is here. a long side coconuts. bananas pie, a bread, fruit, trees, and of a condos. the coffee beans grew on the mountain slopes below. the less for tile island of selby sent a is kept well stocked with fruit and vegetables. thanks to its neighbour. its capital. i'm in dello is home to the largest port in cape bird. and it's a meeting point of a globe trotting sailors. the keep for it is not a prosperous country, it lacks industry and natural resources, but it does have a homegrown treasure, a special genre of music,
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known as moore. now the saudi a is a young musician. she's actually studying law, like a friend of mirrors. yeah. but music is her passion. she takes the bus down to the beach to compose a new more, not the style, jake, melancholic, life affirming music of cape 3rd. saudi a wants to keep the musical tradition of cape virtual life with her songs and earn some money in the process. just like her role model. she's aria eva who made cape birds more noise, indicate for to famous the world over. a central theme is so dodgy, the pain of leaving cape bird and the longing for home. cape bird has long been a country of emigration. the
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like many here cloudy, is catholic and deeply religious legacy of the islands. portuguese colonizers, the ses, anya able to is buried in them in gallo cemetery to this day. she's a role model for the young generation of female musicians who like saudi a hope for a better future. many of their songs address the cape verde and dilemma to stay and suffer or leave long for home. others are about love, poverty or more to base. the local, pre owned word for hospitality. saudi, or takes inspiration from cape foods stunning natural landscapes.
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the 3rd newest song celebrates month to caught on the mountain with the face of famous been landmarks the, the, the, the, the soon you'll be performing this new song for the 1st time, the close to the beach, human dello, the capital of. so if you send a to see, seems close enough to touch the,
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there is an abundance of fish in cape bird, but house is outside the capital are not connected to the water supply system. all the water comes from a single to say, live nation plant. if you're not can to its pipes the canister is your only option. the at the highest point of the island, miguel antonio has been especially creative. the peas worked out how to procure the precious water he needs for irrigating his garden, on the cliff. he fishes it out of the clouds,
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the book, which meant that you don't get the reset the here in this net, the washer condenses during the night. isn't it? because i'm in need of gwinnett gets west at night. the more you and the washer, or is it the bronze diet deeper and then flows into the cistern. this is the cistern where miguel collects water vital both for himself and his garden every night 50 to 60 leaders of water accumulate here. think that this i can do that will
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hold 4000 liters. a lot. grows on his for child 100 square meter plot. then we carrots, aniseed, sits row. now let's is rosemary and others. is the happy with this live? is it? yes, very happy. i was going to see if i lived in the garden and the water or his livelihood along the road just above his garden. he keeps a small stand here, he transforms his curves into t n. shops and sells them to the locals and tourist the rest. he keeps for himself
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from his spectacular cliff top garden begin, antonio has a magnificent view of the islands capital min dello the on the neighboring island dose on to one tow. a piece of sugarcane from the roadside is a popular snack on the way home from school. there was a school bus for the pupils who live further away. pupils like huge was a 16 year old jew 0 lives with her grandmother, uncle and, and their children in one of the small mountain villages. her father is not present, which isn't uncommon. in cape bird and her mother is also absent. the, the money is tight,
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the legal minimum wage is about $130.00 heroes per month to 0 must also contribute to the family income. after school, she earns extra money with donkey deliveries. spectacular as the landscape is, it's not easy to navigate. many journeys are only possible by donkey and many people also rely on donkeys for the crucial resource of water. pipes are often out of service and some areas are not connected to the water supply system at all. l ton has 3 donkeys, which you rinse out to school girls like ju 0 when he doesn't need them himself. it will take true zara, and the donkey an hour and a half in the scorching heat to transport this heavy canister to a house high up on the mountain. the
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same percentage was consumed part time. so there are many elderly people living in the houses here and there isn't enough water and the pipe supply isn't reliable. so we have to load the water onto the donkeys and we also bring them their groceries from me. so for the, for this completion to 0 will earn about to euro from elton for the strenuous time she's expected on the mountain top. who doesn't have to take the water to the house up there because i, i always do it when i come home from school. he simply fargo, i get some money for it. for a lot you do, you got me just c h to it's it's a difficult journey with a stubborn donkey. for the place itself is special. the
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the news is this. it's beautiful here which causes the houses and the green after the rain supergroup the same gun which felix in north. you can only see it from up here. the bush with you and your address. the made it the mario sousa lives here with his family, its 5 kilometers by foot to the nearest village. chi because the, the, the, the,
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the preferable home looking for the don't keys vital for survival. yeah. there's a transportation for the we to have no water without the donkeys. you know, the level of bush cliff caught up with the case. but we'd also be missing all the basics to move a sex of materials, cement, and stones, etc. everything new who is in flux meant lots of good don't key. so important look or so it was if we don't look over the fruit and vegetables supplied by sun to entitled to the neighboring islands are also transported by donkey in the market hall. that mean dello, cloudy, and a friend museum or shopping. they want to cook cape birds, national dish coupon. so with the shape you could also put in
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each filling in it. so we have everything for that. got you? yes. is the corn in the bag, the right one for catch you thank you. the, the traditional recipe includes both meat and fish the
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they take the bus home some do we cut it into pieces or wash it 1st. the main ingredients have got tupa or corn beans, vegetables, meat, and fish. the hardy su simmers for hours on a medium heat. once cooked the traditional dishes, reheated and eaten over several days cut out. he now lives in one of the most expensive neighborhoods near the beach cheese a dentist and a huge fan of carnival this year. a very special challenge lies ahead for the 1st
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time. she's a carnival queen in carnival. the queen's dress plays a central role. it has to be unusual, respect to traditions and have a theme for some meaningful carnival is fun. but it's also culture and tradition. i'm interested in social equality, having a balance between the winners and losers, best this dresses, catalina's design. it requires a lot of fabric. and much like the responsibility of being queen it's weight. things. my dress has a metal base. the costume represents the balance between rich and poor.
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colossal shaw. this is here. but it also has to be a big, sexy yes of course. there's this part. open with pearls. the more beautiful the dress, the better, the posit dentist contract. tina earns good money. the dress will cost around $300.00 euros. being a queen requires a lot of investment dina, as a sewing studio and one of the port or districts of the city. it's also cloudy as neighborhood farm from the beach closer to the mountains. for weeks before carnival, it's all systems go here. dina enters, seamstresses have their hands for making costumes for carnival. teen is stressed.
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most carnival costumes are fairly standard so they don't cost much to queen. stress is a big exception. and so the stress is a job for the boss that dina and this is how it should look the yeah know, put into the into the truck. can it be done in time for carnival or? yes, yes. as hard or easy. hard does it look queenly? this is too much, do you see?
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see yes. yes. the um the the circumference of the extravagant dress is recorded on the floor. dina isn't thrilled. she's under a lot of time pressure. every one is relaxed except her. steve. it's always the same because everything comes at the last moment just before a carnival, and i only have 4 weeks. the 3 weeks later, there's not much to show yet. first they try out a model. an employee serves as a substitute queen the
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will there be enough time before carnival more or less the time is running out for new though to use red suit and matching red hat still have to be made for carnival. the band leaders outfit is obvious. able to is on the present in new knows workshop. there is no money for drums or costumes. they create everything themselves, including the music. if they go full, so he lived there,
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they'll go with you. i've come up with my very own prism for the carnival dell especially. i mean you both did so kind of mixture of sky reiki and galloping horses that she knew about the, the deep. hm. the cheapest way to peace removed. jump out of here and like i saw the movie brushing visiting me right. right. you the right next to this is anya ever a cemetery is guitar maker on his set. those workshop more not the music of cape
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bird also serves as the collective memory of the cape verde ends its central theme . so daddy expresses the melancholy and yearning for a home so by those who had to leave their country due to poverty. before the 1st performance of her new morning songs cloutier wants to give her old guitar an overall on the set of the guitar maker is not very impressed with her plastic backed instrument. you need to re okay 30 and guitar. it's very, we have the best ones here. i'll show you on the most pleasant desire, the friends in plastic, this moment on what you thought somebody else may i try one, a cloudy. i can't afford. i'm a settled guitars,
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but there's no harm dreaming activity back of the page, or do i have of what? i think the guitar she has is no longer adequate for. so do you agree? and i q one for my kind of music, one of your guitars would be great for a brief time. she gets to hold a really good instrument. it costs around $600.00 curos far too expensive for cloud . yeah. she'll be sticking with the old guitar for now. the
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new place has somewhat harder, faster with them about to cut us are the drums sections of the carnival parades. they were key part of kate, 30 and musical culture mean dello, the 2nd largest city and cape bird is the cultural center of the archipelago. the new nose drummers are rehearsing on the soccer field as they do every evening before carnival john sons and the lineup. some $150.00 drummers will come together for the event. the neighbors can forget about sleep during these weeks, but most of them are taking part. anyway. i the rest of the sessions for dancers
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every evening, it was rehearsal. the noodle is you for it. we were the 1st group to start rehearsing. at this point, i'd say, we'll be ready for the what looks like and i do like the beach was one so place apart for some 3 centuries . the speech was the side of one of the world's largest slave markets. the under portuguese colonial rule, thousands of africans were chained to this pillar before being sold onto the americas and the caribbean. 2 days, the dungy valia,
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the former capital is a world heritage site. after centuries of portuguese colonial rule, cape bird finally became independent in 1975. the the country's modern day capital is about 15 kilometers away. it's called prya, which means beach. like the old capital, it's located on the cape birds. largest island, santiago,
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the 70 percent of cape birds population. the creole descendants of both in slave africans and the portuguese colonizers. the cape bird . creole language developed from the communication between slaves, engines slavers, both portuguese and creole, still spoken in cape for today. around 20 kilometers from the capitalize the tranquil town. oh, so domingos keywords where pasquals lives. he's the last cape verde and who can still build and play the traditional instrument of the in slaved. the symbol it's base is a hollow down gord swimming pool. a symbol remains the same boy is the oldest string instruments in k, but it goes back centuries and has neither european nor american origins. it has to
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have come from the african continent. and as mentioned in slave accounts from the time scraps forces each valve cover band, mostly along the exact yeah, this happened with a group of slides flipped to the mountains. they would dump the bad guys above us box a me in nature. they found the materials they needed to build an instrument, then you won't buy it for you being so you can remember lives a month or yep. be the to keep them. so simple a rep that covers created. so 1st in k, u o, as in boy e d, the last uh is b as in mosley,
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this locked the beginnings of the 1st, specifically k for the music shown, right? cool about to go there was still goats in the mountains today, just like back then pasco needs their skin for the sound box. the animals can't be too young or too old. the to the next part is more difficult. course tail, hair bow and the strings are made from it was you know i saw a time not here. feet literally and here
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when for them was a fema so because of the for now the instruments can already be given a rough choose what side of the smooth that i see. so it's important to basketball, that distribution be kept to live and with a, the memory of slavery, the bank and so be sent. it's nadia is also working to keep the cape verde and musical traditional live see her next performance date is approaching. she's excited, but it's difficult to practice when her mother wants to see her studying law. got his thoughts straight from her studies to her new compositions and the performance. music is
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a refuge. her father left when she was very young. i mean, you feed the us, you my life never been easy, lose use, explain part of my life for as long as i can remember, if i was singing along to the radio when i was to and my mother got me a guitar when i was for the ball sadie, a couple of the leaves is area a bar i showed people morning music and made it big. ella x and brought cape bird to the attention of the world. see me yelling me and he was indeed at my job as a young woman living here today. i see that many other young people aren't listening to our music anymore. i think a couple little dents not getting charging the combat a model of the music starting to disappear to could you get stuck with you? dropping it back for my part. i didn't if i was more not quite sure. i can't allow
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us to lose our roots. uh interest. that's why i sing more in the you need them feel comfortable. model is difficult to make a living for music. things are extremely expensive. i squared the social dilemma is got us take the price of a loaf of bread. recently it shut off from 150 to 250 or scooters. the equivalent of around 2 years 50. a whole loaf of bread is often too expensive to buy. hello, do you have some cookies or conflicts? yes, sure. or anything else t the keys? thank you. the saudi a make sure to leave some cut troup of her mother to eat when she gets home late in
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the evening from her job as an accountant cody is mother doesn't earn much. and most of it goes towards her only daughter's tuition fees about a 130 years each month. it's a constant battle with my mother. she keeps telling me musics, no good, my child. and i tell her, yes, it is. music as a part of me. and then she'll say cloud, you go and study cape virgin, use like one, pay away ill. do you know good of the blue scarfs there? done. have you forgotten anything? it's already 9 15 pm on the evening of the 1st performance with the new song. it's about to begin
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the, the key will earn her around 30 years. but it's true where it is greater, the saudis, songs are helping to keep keep birdie and music alive the that song she wrote on the beach about the mountain with the face. now it's live on the concert stage, the
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contravene a to is preparing or rather be prepared to be queen the this year's queen's dress has been kept secret from the public until the last moment the the catalina is nervous. people are already gathering outside for the carnival. under queen stress isn't ready yet. the
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dean is at the end of her rope and catalina to needs all her strength right now. first to get into the dress. but how the it's a bit difficult. this dress difficult to get into maybe, but what dean is conjured up in the last 4 weeks is truly spectacular. the last few weeks of taking their told i'm dina. 7 very, very, very tired. i haven't slept for 24 hours. i've worked non stop. no, not 2430 or so. it turned out beautifully. her parents are here too,
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and they're so proud the but the biggest challenge is yet to come. how to get up there onto the carnival float. would that help with the construction because they head up, but it's not very stable. she goes, the, it's shaky. it's to be. will it get there? the,
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the queen's in her place, high above the people, just as she should be. down below there is cheering the . now we can begin carnival the highlight of the year in cape bird, the
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of the different part of the parade for new know, it's the culmination of months of preparation. is red hat and suit somehow got made ready just in time.
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the but he doesn't seem entirely satisfied. the, even the sound of his whistle can be heard and the deafening dain attention. you have to watch me the somewhere in the middle of it all is just on the soccer player. fairly recognizable under all the make up. his 1st carnival. and this is there, saw there and some 3 things you need in life, health, money, and love. the parade only lasts for one day for one glorious night. but they've
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been waiting and preparing it for a full year in cape bird. it's the music that brings every one together, the cold war, or humanitarian catastrophe. on the border between poland and belen roost, the number of illegal border crossings by refugees is increasing. and this solution is only getting worse. to call is border security. these are organized efforts. but 8 agencies are horrified by the situation. the focus on human in says he minutes on d. w. the
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