{"product_id":"mario-lucio_migrants_2023_pia","title":"Migrants","description":"Singer-songwriter, poet, and from 2012 to 2016 the Minister of Culture of Cape Verde, Mario Lucio is a prominent figure on the Cape Verdean cultural and musical scene. He returns with an album produced by a young Portuguese musician-producer, Rui Ferreira, who brings new sounds to the music of Cape Verde while retaining its soul. On \"Migrants,\" Mario Lucio sings of the beauty of the human journey and the sadness of those who flee war, persecution, hunger, and poverty. He appeals to our humanism and pays tribute to those who have lost their lives attempting to cross seas and lands throughout the centuries. This album, the tenth in the artist's career (from his beginnings with Simentera to Funanight released in 2019), is in itself an act of migration, of encounters. It is the first time that Mario Lucio, songwriter, has entrusted the arrangements and musical production to a European, in this case the Portuguese multi-instrumentalist musician Rui Ferreira from Porto. \"In this album, I wanted my soul to be read by the other,\" says Mario Lucio. The notion of cultural mixing, dialogue, and harmony between cultures is the motto of this work, breaking down notions of borders, linguistic barriers, color, religion, or nation. It is also the most universal album, because in this work Mario Lucio brings new sounds to the music of Cape Verde, always keeping its soul. \"This album carries all of Cape Verde and Africa, but also dialogues with all the musical aesthetics that migrations have made possible,\" he says. The narratives tell Mario Lucio's incredible personal story, his childhood in Tarrafal, Cape Verde, his travels, his practice of Buddhism and the Yoruba religion, his reflections on creolization. They recount experiences, insights, confessions, beliefs, but also share hope and friendship. Having written for Cesaria Evora, Mayra Andrade, and many others, he reveals all his talent as a poet and composer in this album.","brand":"Mario Lucio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55304154480984,"sku":null,"price":20230224.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/5600384984313.jpg?v=1772566319","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/mario-lucio_migrants_2023_pia","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}