Mayra Andrade embraces her Cape Verde roots on Manga. The cosmopolitan singer-songwriter, largely living in Paris, sings the entire album in Cape Verdean Creole and is accompanied, among others, by Cape Verde multi-instrumentalist Kim Alves. Certain Cape Verde rhythms, styles and themes are also recognizable. But this Andrade transforms in an idiosyncratic way into modern pop music with influences
… from jazz, Africa and Brazil. On the album produced by the Ivorian 2B you can enjoy both melodic and rhythmically catchy music, warm-blooded with a laidback atmosphere. (SvdP)more
