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Rare Afro-Portuguese LP 
"The band Bulimundo appears to the City of Praia’s public in 1980, as the first in a series of concerts organized at the Cine theater of the capital to celebrate the five years of independence of Cabo Verde. Until then, the band had been performing at dances in the interior of Santiago Island and the peripheral neighborhoods of the capital. They had instant success by presenting funaná played with electric instruments and in a contemporary language. 

 is traditionally played with a harmonica (diatonic accordion) and a small iron bar, called ferrinho. It was despised for decades or even unknown by the inhabitants of the urban centers, because it was a song from the peasant world of Santiago Island. Bulimundo took on the mission to carry out efforts to rescue funaná, removing it from the confines of the rural world. It was a real revolution. The musician and journalist Carlos Gonçalves, in an outlook on the Cape Verdean music that accompanies the compilation Cap Vert: Anthologie 1959-1992, considers that this was “the biggest achievement on the evolution process of Cape Verdean music”. The acclamation of funaná reflects the great nationalist feeling in the first years after Cabo Verde independence."

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