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World Service,4 mins

Cabo Verde's cosmic synth grooves

Focus on Africa

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Record label Analog Africa is releasing a compilation of Cape Verdean music from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The album is called Space Echo - The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed. According to the label’s founder, Samy Ben Redjeb, this period was influenced by a ship wreck in 1968. He tells the Âé¶¹Éç's Nomia Iqbal more about how this happened.

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