Laco Umbilical

Lucibela's Lao Umbilical album is now re-issued with a new title ''Ti Jon Poca'' which have a great success at every concert. Two titles have been reworked on featuring: ''Dona Ana'' with the famous singer Bonga and ''Sai Fora'' (Mal Amadu) with the ra tints of Sofiane Saidi. Written by old masters such as Manuel de Novas and the generation that followed (Jorge Humberto, Betu and so on), the songs from the traditional repertoire that Lucibela champions span decades. Lucibela - like Elida Almeida who wrote two of the tracks - belongs to a new, uninhibited generation. The two young women take guitars, cavaquinho, saxophone, accordion and violin - all the musical cornucopia of the islands - and blend them in the civilizational cocktail shaker of tablet computers and television. Lucibela projects an intriguing intensity, moving from pure emotion to audacious gambles to firm opposition. Lao Umbilical's arranger and musical director is the ingenious acrobat Toy Vieira, Cesaria Evora's associate, who has also worked with Lura.