Fidju Kitxora

(PT/CV)

Fidju Kitxora is a collective in motion between Lisbon and Cape Verde: an enigmatic group that transforms the dance floor into a laboratory of memory and the future. From funaná raves to Afrohouse beats, via semba and kuduro.

‘Fidju Kitxora’ means ‘crying child’ in Creole, a perfect image for a project born of mourning and longing for a land that, for years, existed only in the imagination. Following his grandmother’s death, André ‘Xina’ Coelho (son of a Portuguese father and a Cape Verdean mother) sets off for Cape Verde, walking hundreds of kilometres on foot between islands and families, recording voices, sounds, celebrations and silences, and realising that he wants to repay the love he has received through music.

From this raw material, he constructs a sonic architecture that does not ask permission from any genre: the torrential and untameable funaná of Cape Verde, with its ferrinho and accordion (as in Lobu na Sukuru, featuring Scúru Fitchadú), intertwines with Angolan semba, kuduro, afrohouse, echoes of techno and (other) electronic experiments, always interwoven with field recordings. From this alchemy was born Racodja, a debut album released in 2024.

On stage, partial anonymity (a hidden face, a focus on full-body performance) transforms the concert into a kind of living archive: light, dance and sound combine to allow the audience to lose themselves in the crowd whilst simultaneously rediscovering ancient questions about belonging and identity.

With their debut album Racodja opening doors and the new single Simbron heralding a second album scheduled for 2026, Fidju Kitxora is at a turning point. MED welcomes a living organism in constant flux, promising that the next stop will be even more profound on this journey through the post-diaspora.