Featured Artists: Kickin’ It in Cabo Verde

Posted by Sam Backer

Kuenta i Tambu

We first heard Kuenta I Tambu (or KIT) when they came to New York for globalFest. As you can see above, we even got to take them to the studios at BRIC, where they played some acoustic versions of their usually electrified material. KIT come from the ABC islands: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao (although the majority of the band was born in Curaçao.) They play tambu, a traditional celebration music that was banned for years by the Dutch colonizers. KIT attempt to reconfigure the style with modern dance beats, fusing ancient rhythms to modern drops.