A gentle, acoustic (nylon string) guitar sound.
Rhapsody on Cape Verde ...
Cape Verde lies 350 miles off the west coast of Africa. Colonized by the Portuguese in the 1400s, the islands became a key outpost in the slave trade and were the last many saw of Africa before being shipped off to the Americas. It's no wonder, then, that Portugal's fado morphed into Cape Verde's morna, a style that, like fado, is focused on "sodade," or longing. For such a small system of islands, Cape Verde has had a deep impact on the world music scene. Musicians there keep equally close ties with Lisbon and Paris, and many have exported their talents and become stars.