Joyful rebellion
November 03, 2020

'A Sweet Pain' - how a sunken ship brought joy to Cabo Verde islands

A great short documentary 'A Sweet Pain: The Rebel Synths of Cabo Verde', based on an amusing myth about a ship headed to Rio De Janeiro carrying keyboards and synthesizers by Moog, Farfisa, Hammond and Korg. The ship gets lost near the Cabo Verde islands, where the descendants of African slaves find the instruments and develop, in resistance to the Portuguese authorities, music that celebrates life and joy, as opposed to Saudade, a nostalgic feel inherent to the Portuguese. ISCHIFI tells the story.