Waldemar Bastos - Pretaluz (Backlight) (1997)

Pretaluz is the world-wide debut of Waldemar Bastos. Recorded in New York with Angolan and Portuguese musicians, it was produced by noted downtown artist and Luso-savant Arto Lindsay. An intuitive musician, Waldemar belongs to a new generation of African artists — urbane, cosmopolitan, and able to draw from wealth of influences, local and not so near, to create indelible songs. These are his notes about Pretaluz.
This album, the first that I have recorded in the United States, gives a sense of the breadth and variety of my musical projects, although, as is always the case with what I compose and perform, its backbone is the music of Angola.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Waldemar Bastos - Sofrimento (4:05)
1.02 - Waldemar Bastos - Rainha Ginga (5:20)
1.03 - Waldemar Bastos - Muxima (5:10)
1.04 - Waldemar Bastos - Kuribôta (7:10)
1.05 - Waldemar Bastos - Morro do Kussava (5:48)
1.06 - Waldemar Bastos - Minha Familia (5:50)
1.07 - Waldemar Bastos - Menina (3:58)
1.08 - Waldemar Bastos - Querida Angola (5:26)
1.09 - Waldemar Bastos - Kanguru (5:41)