Bitori : on tour / une production, la Huit ; en coproduction avec Banlieues Bleues et Trace TV ; un film de Guillaume Dero.

Paris, France : Qwest TV, 2017.

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Considered subversive by colonial powers and satanic by the Catholic Church, the funaná music style was repressed until Cape Verde's independence in 1975. One of its most eminent performers, Victor Tavarès dit Bitori, even waited until he was 55 years old to record his first album in 1997. Since then, he has rehabilitated the tradition by practising the diatonic accordion, which is its characteristic instrument, in the company of a bouncing, jangly rhythm that is marked by the presence of a ferrinho - an iron bar that is struck and scraped by a metal rod. Here, at the 2017 Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris, Bitori remains impassive, chewing on a toothpick, whilst his audience float into a trance. Push back the furniture, you're gonna be dancing in your own living room! **Eric Delhaye**.

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Portuguese; Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)

October 02, 2023

Bitori, accordion, harmonica ; Chando Graciosa, vocals, ferrinho ; Danilo Tavares, vocals, electric bass guitar ; Miroca Paris, vocals, percussion ; Toy Paris, vocals, drums.