TRANS-ATLANTIC SOUL MUSIC: LUIZ CARACOL TRIO + ELEANOR DUBINSKY

Aug 7, 2015 by Marangeli    No Comments    Posted under: Community, Keeping You in the Loop, Residencies & Collaborations, World Music

Eleanor Dubinsky is a world-wandering musician/singer/songwriter/homegirl who has an endless voracious appetite for warm, sun-baked musical inspiration. Her travels (with guitar or cello in tow) have taken her to cities like Tulum, Buenos Aires, Dakar, and Montevideo. So, when she told me she was headed to Cape Verde last year, I knew she was in store for a mind-blowing experience. The island nation, located off the western coast of the Africa mainland, is not only stunning visually, with all of its breathtaking natural landscapes, but due to the 500+ year-long intermixing of Portuguese, Spanish, Arab, French, Indian, Chinese, and Dutch cultures with generations of Africans from all over the continent, under the relentless grindstone of the transatlantic slave trade, Cape Verde has birthed a phenomenal soulful music scene. With honorable nods to traditional rhythm patterns and prevalent use of folkloric instruments, the Cape Verdean music scene has ingested the influences of jazz, popular Brazliian music (MPB), hiphop, soul, and blues, and, in return, has given the world the talents of Cesaria Evora (RIP), Sara Tavares, and even rising star, Dino D