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the residence of these craggy volcanic mountains looked out over an endless expanse of c, the . in contrast to the rugged landscape, the special sound of cape birds, music is luxury and soulful and melancholy. the visit the meet, 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 keep for dns,

the deals and the shaking things up around here. that's new to 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 talent, not just athletic, but musical to take 12 year old jobs on most of the i searched yep. this years this 1st

time he's never played as a carnival before. he doesn't know how to do it yet. we're doing basic training here, but i'm nervous. i've got goosebumps already. i've never done this before, and i don't want to do anything wrong. the an independent african country. okay. 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 flowers is here. a long side coconuts. bananas by a bread fruit trees, and of a condos. the coffee beans grow on the mountain slopes below. the less for tile island of savvy, sent a is kept well stocked with fruit and vegetables. thanks to its neighbour. its capital. mean dello is home to the largest port in cape 3rd and is 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, known as more now. the saudi is a young musician. she's actually studying law, like a friend of mercy. but music is her passion. she takes the bus down to the beach to compose a new, more now than the style, jake, melancholic, life affirming music of cape bird. the saudi a wants to keep the musical tradition of cape virtual life with their songs and earn some money in the process. just like her role model, she's aria able to made cape birds. more noise indicate for to famous the world over a central theme is so dodging the pain of leaving a bird and the longing for home keep bird has long been a country of emigration. the

like many here because out here is catholic and deeply religious legacy of the islands. portuguese colonizers, the this is anya, able to is buried in the mid gallows cemetery to this day. she's a role model for the young generation of female musicians who like cloutier pope 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 on the local creole word for hospitality. saudi,

or takes inspiration from cape foods stunning natural landscapes. the newest song celebrates monte carter mountain with the face of fame. has been dealt with landmarks the the sooner she will be performing this new song for the 1st time, the close to the beach, human dello, the capital of so be sent to the sea,

seems close enough to touch the . 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 d, certainly nation plant. if you're not connected to its pipes, the canister is your only option. the, at the highest point of the island, miguel antonio has been especially creative the he's worked out how to procure the precious water he needs for irrigating his

garden, on the cliff. he fishes it out of the clouds. the books, it was meant that you don't get the reset me here in this net. the washer condenses during the night is thinking it because this i mean even when that gets wasted, nice. the more you and the washer or is it the bronze down 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 2nd to that will hold 4000 liters. a lot grows on his for tie. 100 square meter plot been with carrots, aniseed central, now let's is rosemary and others. is he happy with his live? is it? yes, very happy. who has continued 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

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. a there's a school bus for the pupils who live further away. pupils like new jersey, the 16 year old jew sierra lives with their brand, mother, 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

money is tight, 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 jews, era when he doesn't need them himself. it will take choose era 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 same

post tons of consent, parts done. so there are many elderly people living in the houses here and there isn't enough water and the pipes apply isn't reliable. so we have to load the water on to the donkeys and we also bring them their groceries from me. so for the physical to 0 will earn about 2 euros 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. i always do it. when i come home from school, he simply get some money for it. for a lot you gave me just c h to the it's a difficult journey with a stubborn donkey. for the place itself is special. the

the new gotta renew is viewed. it's beautiful here which causes the houses and the green after the rain. supergroup the scene go with feel isn't noise. you can only see it from up here. the learn to push one look was really the 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 passport who am looking for the don't keys vital for survival. yeah. there's a transportation for the we have no water without the donkeys. you know, the level of loose could cut the case. but we'd also be missing all the basics to move a section of materials, cement, and stones, etc. everything new who, who, who folks went lot to do don't key. so important look. or the simply people don't use it until the end of the fruit and vegetable supplied by sun to entitled to the neighboring islands are also transported by donkey in the market hall. mean dello, cloudy, and her friend museum are shopping they want to cook, cape birds,

national dish coupon. so with that you could also put in each filling in it. so we have everything for the got you. yes. is the current in the bag, the right one for catch you bob? thank you. the, the traditional recipe includes both meat and fish, the

they take the bus home the or do we cut it into pieces or wash it? first. the main ingredients have got coupon 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 time she's a carnival queen in carnival. the queen's dress plays a central role. it has to be unusual, respected traditions, and have a seat on which the main carnival is fun. but it's also culture and traditions that i'm interested in social equality. having a balance between the winners and losers. best this dressers catalina's design. it requires a lot of fabric. and much like the responsibility of being queen it's waiting. my dress has a metal base. the costume represents the balance between rich and poor.

colossal this. 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 has a sewing studio and one of the port districts of the city. it's also cloudy, is neighborhood farm from the beach closer to the mountains. for weeks before carnival, it's all systems go here. dina,

interest seamstresses have their hands for making costumes for carnival. dina is stressed. most carnival costumes are fairly standard so they don't cost much of 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 no yeah, no point into the into the truck. can it be done in time for carnival? yes, yes. but some hard or easy the hard does it look queenly. this

is stacy? 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

we would there would be enough time before comfortable 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 society a able to is on the present in new knows workshop. there was no money for drums or costumes. they create everything themselves, including the music,

and kill those he lived there and then go, we do. i've come up with my very own prism for the carnival. dell flushed. i mean, you poke, it's a kind of mixture of sky reiki and galloping horses. i see my back to you to keep me and go back chickens. bowers. okay. jump out of here and look us all the movie fashion visit. see right now you see the right next to this is anya everett of cemetery is guitar maker on this settles

workshop. more not the music of cape bird also serves as the collective memory of the cape verde ends, its central theme. so dowdy expresses the melancholy in yearning for home, so by those who had to leave their country due to poverty. before the 1st performance of her new morning songs cloudy a wants to give her old guitar. an overhaul on the set of the guitar maker is not very impressed with her plastic backed instrument. you need to re okay, buddy and guitar. it's right. we have the best ones here. i'll show you the most pleasant and desire to be friends in classic this movement on what you thought.

somebody else. may i try one, a cloudy, i can't afford. i'm a settled guitars, but there's no harm dreaming. activity back and i think the guitar she has is no longer adequate for so do you agree that you working for my kind of music. one of your guitars would be great. the 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

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 cape verde and musical culture. in demo, the 2nd largest city and cape bird is the cultural center of the archipelago. new knows drummers are rehearsing on the soccer field as they do every evening before carnival josh on the line of 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

every evening and there is 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 of hard for some 3 centuries. this 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, 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 style and the sun to jago, the 70 percent of cape birds population. the creole descendants of both and sleep 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 past clause 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 hollowed out gord swimming pool. a symbol remains amazing to symbolize the oldest string instrument and kate,

but it goes back centuries and has neither european nor american origins. it has to have come from the african continent. and as mentioned in slave accounts from the time you scraps clauses, each valve cover band mostly along the exact yeah, this happened is no, that's a group of slides flipped to the mountains. they would dump the bad guys because a me in nature, they found the materials they needed to build an instrument, then you won't find for you being the gun. remember to live the must be the to keep them so simple, a replica was created. so the 1st and k, the to month reports to you. oh, boeing double. good. the do the last uh 30 is mostly deep. mm.

and this box, the beginnings, the 1st specifically k for the music shown. right? cool. the but to go there are still goats in the mountains today, just like back then pasco needs their skin for the sound box, the animals can be too young or too old. the to the next part is more difficult. porsche tail hair bow and the strings are made from it says, you know,

i saw a time, not here. so you can literally send here the one for them was a female. so because of the, from now the instrument can already be given a rough tunic, one side of the saloon that i see. so it's important to basketball, that distribution be kept alive. and with a, the memory of slavery, the bank and so be sent. it's nadia is also working to keep the keep dirty and musical traditional live. the next performance date is approaching. she's excited, but it's difficult to practice when her mother wants to see her studying law. cloudy is thoughts straight from her studies to our new compositions and the

performance music is a refuge her father left when she was very young. i mean your feet, the us you my life never been easy um was 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 in. the ordering did 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 yeah, this be a long cutting charging the got a model of the music starting to disappear, to cool. good stuff with you home is offering it was for my part i dentist. i was

more now. i can't allow us to lose our roots interest. that's why i sing more than a lot of, you know, it's difficult to make a living for music. things are extremely expensive. i squared the so still i'm is got is take the price of a loaf of bread. recently it shut off from 150 to 250 s. kudos the equivalent of a room to yours. 50 whole loaf of bread is often too expensive to buy. hello, do you have some cookies or conflicts? yes, sure. or anything else t? it's 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

the evening from her job. as an accountant, cloudy is mother doesn't earn much. and most of it goes towards her own. the daughter's tuition fees about a 130 years each month. and 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 is a part of me. and then she'll say cloud, you go and study cape virgin use, it won't pay your way. it'll 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 songs. it's about to begin 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

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 dina 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 meeting, but what dean is conjured up in the last 4 weeks is truly spectacular. the last few weeks of taking their told on dina. very, very, very tired. i haven't slept for 24 hours. i've worked non stop. no, not $2430.00 or so

it turned out beautifully. her parents are here too, and they're so proud the but the biggest challenge is here 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 up. she goes shaky, needs to be will it gets there the

the queen's and replace higher, but the people just as she should be. down below, there is cheering, the, now we can begin carnival the highlight of the year in k bird, the,

the, the different part of the parade for new know, it's the combination of months of preparation is red hat and

suit somehow got made ready just in time 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 or 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 to love. the parade only lasts for one day for one glorious night. but they've been waiting and preparing it for a full year in cape bird. it's the music that brings every one together. the career with a bang bang believed in me like no one ever had before. the whole music industry believes in billboard. are the hottest video director in the mozambie. what's the secret to his success frame back in 30 minutes on the w, the

sometimes to show you i found that you out to the highlight for every week not to not on the long voyage through the ocean and motor home back with account for a long time they had to be humans on the journey but now the premises have to come to protect the ocean consultation on the

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