Bandé-Gamboa

MUSIC
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2020
7:00 PM

This Is Sessions, Lisbon Live Stream

$3-$10
https://dice.fm/event/xmorl-band-gamboa-aedt-29th-oct-stream-via-this-is-sessions-lisbon-aedt-global-tickets

Two bands were formed, each reviving a highly danceable pop/protest style from a former Portuguese colony in Africa:  Funaná from Cabo Verde (which the government even outlawed!) and Gumbé from Guinea-Bissau.  Then the bands were combined, to fuse the two styles.  I don't usually go for fusion — but this is some highly, highly danceable protest music!

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I'm not expecting any of us to have or have access to Grouge, the Cabo Verdean equivalent of Cachaça, which they like to use there to make Cabo Verdean Caipirinhas.  So let's recur to the standard Caipirinha, from another former Portuguese colony:  put 1/2 of a lime, cut into pieces, and 2 teaspoons of superfine sugar, into a tumbler or Old Fashioned glass.  Muddle.  Pour in 2 oz. Cachaça.  Stir.  Fill the glass with ice.  Garnish with a lime wheel.  In my many many decades on this planet, I have never, not once, been able to stop at one.