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 best you know him in the 15th century, portuguese sailors discovered the uninhabited archipelago. 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. Thats new to the drummer. Its only 4 weeks to carnival, a beloved cape verde and tradition. Its 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 the 1st. Yep. This years has 1st time. Hes never played as a carnival before. He doesnt know how to do it yet. Were doing basic training here. But im nervous. Ive got goosebumps already. Its, ive never done this before and i dont want to do anything wrong. The. An independent african country cape Virgin Islands are located some 600 kilometers west of senegal 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 has here alongside coconuts, bananas pie a bread, fruit trees, and of a condos. The coffee beans grow 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 mean dello is home to the largest port in cape bird and is a Meeting Point for 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. Shes 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. Saudi a wants to keep the musical tradition of cape virtual life with their songs and to earn some money in the process. Just like her role model sees aria able to made cape birds more nose and k for too famous. The world over a central theme is so dodgy, 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 mean gallows cemetery to this day. Shes a role model for the young generation of female musicians who like cloutier 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 fluids, stunning natural landscapes. The newest song celebrates monte Carter Mountain with the face of fame has been dealt with landmarks the, the, the, 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 if you send a to see, 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 to say of the nation plant. If youre not going to to its pipes, the kind of stir 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, the book. Which meant that you dont get the reset me here in this net. The washer condenses during the night as think of it. Because this, i mean the, the gwinnett gets west at night. The more you and the washer, or is it the bronze diamond duper 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 to proceed that the 2nd to that will hold 4000 liters. A lot grows on his for tie. 100 square meter plot. Been with carrots, aniseed central. Now lets is rosemarie and others. This is a busy, happy with his live is yes, very happy with 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 tea and shops and sells them to locals and tourists. 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 of sun to one tow. A piece of sugar came from the roadside. Is it popular . Snacked on the way home from school a theres a school bus for the pupils who live further away. C pupils like new jersey, the 16 year old jews era labors with their brand mother, uncle, and, and their children in one of the small mountain villages. Her father is not present, which isnt 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. Its 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 doesnt need them himself. He 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 isnt enough water and the pipes apply isnt reliable. So we have to load the water on to the donkeys and we also bring them their groceries for me. So for the, for the completion to 0 will earn about 2 euros from elton for the strenuous time shes expected on the mountain top. Who doesnt have to take the water to the house up there. I always do it when i come home from school, he simpson fargo. I get some money for velocity would be just c h to the. Its a difficult journey with a stubborn donkey. For the place itself is special. The news that of the news is this. Its beautiful here which causes the houses and the green after the rain. Supergroup the scene go with feel isnt noise. You can only see it from up here. The one that was really the, the made it, the mario sousa lives here with his family. Its 5 kilometers by foot to the newest village guy because the well the 2 in photo, the press, portable home looking for the dont keys vital for survival. Here theres a transportation for the we have no water without the donkeys. You know, the level of loose could cut the case, but wed also be missing each other by 6 move attacks of materials, cement, and stones, et cetera. Everything new who is in flux meant lot to do, dont key. So important look. Or if it was, if we dont look over the fruit and vegetables supplied by sent one child to the neighboring islands are also transported by donkey in the market hall mean dello, cloudy, and our friend museums are shopping. They want to cook. Cape birds, national dish. Got you so you could also put them each filling in it. So we have everything for the got you . Yes. Is the corn and 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, do we cut it into pieces or a wash of priced . Are the main ingredients of cut coupon or corn, beans, vegetables, meat, and fish. The hardy, sou 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. Viewed the beach cheese a dentist and a huge fan of carnival. This year, a very special challenge lies ahead for the 1st time shes a carnival queen in carnival. The queens dress plays a central role. It has to be unusual, respect to traditions and have a seat on which the main carnival is fun. But its also culture and traditions that im interested in social equality. Having a balance between the winners and losers. Best this dressers catalinas design. It requires a lot of fabric and much like the responsibility of being queen its weight. 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 is this part. Open with pearls. The more beautiful the dress, the better or has a dentist contract. Tina earns good money. The dress will cost around 300. 00 euros. Being a queen requires a lot of investment um, dina has a sewing studio in one of the port or districts of the city. Its also cloudy, is neighborhood, far from the beach closer to the mountains for weeks before kind of of its all systems go here. Dina enters, seamstresses have their hands for making costumes for carnival. Gina is stressed. Most carnival costumes are fairly standard so they dont 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 . Oh, yes, yes. Thats as hard or easy the hard does it look queenly. This is too much. Do you see . See yes. Yes. The um the the circumference of the extravagant dress is recorded on the floor. Dina isnt thrilled, shes under a lot of time pressure. Every one is relaxed except her. Steve. Its always the same. Everything comes at the last moment just before a carnival, and i only have 4 weeks. The 3 weeks later, theres 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 is obvious, 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 at the kill full. So he lived there and then go we do. Ive come up with my very own prism for the carnival. Dell flushed. I mean, you both did so kind of mixture of sky reiki and galloping horses as we move up to the deep no cheese bowers. Okay. Jump out of here and look us up for the movie fashion, visiting you right, right. You 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 and 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 once to give her old guitar an overall une set to the guitar maker is not very impressed with her plastic backed instrument. You need to re okay, buddy and guitar, which is where we have the best ones here. Ill show you our videos and desire to be friends in classics. Just move in to what your thoughts on those as somebody else may i try one, a cloudy. I cant afford and a settled guitars, but theres no harm dreaming. I took it back and i think the guitar she has is no longer adequate for. So do you agree that 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 cloudy and shell be sticking with the old guitar for now. The new places somewhat harder, faster with them about to cut us are the drums sections of the carnival parades. They were key part of kate, dirty and musical culture mean dello, the 2nd largest city in 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 john sons in 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 that is rehearsal, the pseudo is you for it. We were the 1st group to start rehearsing. At this point, id say, will be ready for the what looks like and i do like the beach was one so place of hard for some 3 centuries. The speech was the side of one of the Worlds 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. Today, c, dungy failure. The former capital is a World Heritage site. After centuries of portuguese colonial rule, cape bird finally became independent in 1975. The the countrys modern day capital is about 15 kilometers away. Its called prya, which means beach. Like the old capital, its located on the cape birds, largest island, santiago, the 70 percent of cape birds population. The creole descendants of both in sleeved 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 domain goes to you is where pasquals lives. Hes the last cape verde and who can still build and play the traditional instrument of the in slaved . The symbol its base is a hollowed out gord swimming pool, a symbol remains eliza. Symbolize the oldest and string instruments 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 of focus, each federal Government Bank mostly law, the exact yeah, this happened is no. Thats 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 wont find waiting, so you can remember the lives of must be the to keep them so simple, a replica was created. So the 1st and k for 2 months reports to you. O as in boy e d, the last uh 3 is e as in most of the and this box, the beginnings of the 1st specifically k for the music john rod cooled the but 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 to be too young or too old. The to the next part is more difficult. Horse tail hair to the boat and the strings are made from it. Says you know i saw a time not here so you can literally send here when for them was a fema so because of the for now the instrument can already be given a rough tunic, one side of the saloon that i see. So its important to basketball, the distribution be kept to live and with a, the memory of slavery the bank and sell be sent. Its nadia is also working to keep the keep dirty and musical traditional live to her next performance date is approaching. Shes excited, but its difficult to practice when her mother wants to see her studying law. About his thoughts straight from her studies to her new compositions and the performance. Music is a refuge. Her father left when she was very young. I mean your feet, the look asleep fast, you my life never been easy was use, explain part of my life for as long as i can remember it. I was singing along to the radio when i was to and my mother got me a guitar when i was for basketball. Sadie a couple of the leaves this area, a bar i showed people Morning Music and made it big. Ella x and brought cape 3rd to the attention of the world. See me yelling mean he was indeed my job as a young woman living here today. I see that many other young people arent listening to our music anymore. I think a couple little dents not getting charging the got a model of the music starting to disappear, to cool stuff with you. Dropping it. Was that for my part . I didnt. If i was more no club, i cant allow us to lose our roots. Dentist. Thats why i sing more. No. You dont feel comfortable. Its difficult to make a living for music. Things are extremely expensive. A square the socialism is got us. Take the price of a loaf of bread. Recently it shut off from 150 to 250 s. Kudos 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 . Its the keys. Thank you. The saudi, i make sure to leave some catch upa for her mother to eat when she gets home late in the evening from her job as an accountant cody is mother doesnt earn much. And most of it goes towards her only daughters tuition fees about a 130 years each month. Its a constant battle with my mother. She keeps telling me musics, no good, my child. And i tell her, yes it is using as a part of me. And then shell say cloud, you go and study cape virgin use, it wont pay your way. Itll do, you know, good of the blue scarfs there. Done. Have you forgotten anything . Its already 9 15 pm on the evening of the 1st performance with the new saw. Its about to begin, the big key will earn her around 30 years. But its true where it is greater. Saudi is 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 its live on the concert stage, the contravene a to is preparing or rather be prepared to be queen the this years queens 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. Enter, queen stress isnt 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 its 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. 7 very, very, very tired. I havent slept for 24 hours. Ive worked non stop. No, not 2430 or so. It turned out beautifully. Her parents are here too, and theyre 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 . It goes, they head up, but its not very stable. Up. She goes. Its shaky. Its too big. Will it get there . The, the queens in her place 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 cape 3rd the, the, the different part of the parade. For new, know, its the combination of months of preparation is red hat and suit somehow got made ready just in time. The but he doesnt seem entirely satisfied. The, even the sound of his whistle cant 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 their song 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 theyve been waiting and preparing it for a full year in cape bird. Its the music that brings every one together. The drama specialist, african filmmakers are becoming more innovative. 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