Marcos

Saudade is the first and only release from Marcos, an unheard gem from Cape Verde that was sitting in one of Lisbon’s warehouses at São Bento for us to discover. Unheard until now, we have been searching for the past 4 years about this record and the existence of other copies.

Recorded during the 80s, the record is estimated to have been self-released in 1984. This constitutes another episode in the motion that started in the late 70s, where musicians from Cape Verde would visit Lisbon and acquire studio package deals to record a full album. We need to put a strong emphasis on the world ‘deal’ here because that’s really what it was: a pure transactional operation.