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An island at north of an archipelago planted in the middle of the Atlantic welcomes a very creative musician. A man who stands out in a country known for his musical production and creativity and for musicians who marked his history and planetary recognition. Among them is recognized the diva of bare feet, Cesária Évora.
São Vicente is the most cosmopolitan of the Cape Verde islands. Island that welcomes Monte Cara (one of the seven wonders of the archipelago) and owns one of the most beautiful bays in the world – Porto Grande Bay, open to the world, which, over time, has been receiving various influences and affluences in the most varied quadrants of art, culture and life.
But São Vicente also has its own sounds and Vasco Martins explores, studies and uses them, either capturing them, in a natural way, or recreating them in synthesizers and through notes sung by the instruments he masters. It is these same sounds that are felt and experienced that set the tone for his poetry.
From his residence in Ribeira do Calhau, an area far removed from the hustle and bustle of the city of Mindelo, Vasco Martins leaves for various points on the island, between beaches, plains and hills, mixing with nature and its birds, trees, breezes, waves, voices, that mark the very music coming out of his mind for the staves, for the synthesizers or even for the orchestras, in the form of magnificent symphonies.
Islander, Vasco Martins, seeks in his travels for the imaginary and transcendental rhythms of Cape Verde and the World.
Adored how misunderstood, Vasco Martins prepares his music with a set of sound condiments of beautiful imagination. A song to feel, to travel, born from the mind of the one who lived the sounds of the bands and the experiences lived with fellow musicians, to go looking for a destination that had been looking for him so much – to make symphonic music. Vasco Martins‘ work, from an early age, was recognized by the most attentive, renowned musicians and international critics.
Vasco Martins‘ music has a memorable range, passing through the intense cosmos of the synthesizers, the taste of the erudite achieved by the sounds of his piano and classical guitar and traveling through the imaginary of Morna through superb compositions immortalized by the beautiful voice of Hermínia) and internationalized by names like Zeca Baleiro (Brazil). A song that revisits beautiful compositions by B. Léza, (Cape Verde) transposing them to orchestral waves and sets the tone for superb interpretations by the indispensable Cape Verdean instrumentalist Bau (Cape Verde) and the well-known guitarist John Williams (USA). And he puts in the beautiful voice of the singer Bévinda Fatum (France / Portugal) the music that illustrates beautiful poetry by Fernando Pessoa (Portuguese Poet).
To complete a golden journey, Vasco Martins has always been one of the great fighters for the conquest of Morna as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (since 2018) and the creation of the National Day of Morna (December 3).
Modernist, avant-garde, progressive, surrealist? It could be all of that. But reality shows that Vasco Martins‘ music, for the time, for the improbable space, is revolutionary and inspiring.
“Vasco Martins and The Island Of The Secret Sounds” is a feature-length documentary that, more than music, sound, poetry and image, exposes the creativity of a simple man, but with a complex mind, on an island, in a country with a high rate of improbability that this happened.
The experience of its people, combined with the surrounding environment and the musical environment, were the springboard of its creative, progressive and musically revolutionary force. With works performed in countries like Portugal, France, Australia, Colombia, Brazil, Czech Republic and Japan, Vasco Martins is the only symphonist in Cape Verde.
More than a film, an event that deserves to be explored.