This song ("Run Up, Run Down") is the kind of track that evokes dancing on the beach while holding aloft a sloshing, fruity drink. Lima is Cape Verdean, but here he leans hard into a sound that's part Caribbean street party, part sweaty African funk jam, with just enough island seasoning to keep it unmistakably from home. Legend has it, I read, that this fusion style was born when a crate of synthesizers washed up on a Cape Verde beach. The song's built on a swaggering, walking bass line, while the guitar slips in sunny little licks that flirt with Latin riffs. Hip-swaying bongos keep the Latin rhythm going. And then there's Lima belting, shouting, grinning through the verses, backed by a ragtag choir of voices that sound like they're all halfway through a street parade. An irresistible party of a song.
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