MUSIC (Angola): Muita Areia by C4Pedro ~ #TheYamboSelection

[Note: This is archival material extracted from an earlier version of the Top 40 list published in 2015. The extract was effected to ease (speed-up) navigation up and down the Top 40 list]

This Angolan music video, this Muita Areia, is a bunch of surprises. First, for a country which, thanks perhaps to Big Brother, is mostly associated with Cabo Snoop's style of music and dance, Muita Areia is a huge departure from one's expectations. Secondly, who on earth would have had reason to know that Angola was 'quietly' crafting this sort of continental conquest, when all (all but the oil-driven tills) was so eerily quite on that African front?
Thirdly, the video script, which in hindsight is simple enough, produces, for a few brief moments of funk, an astoundingly imaginative and mesmerizing catwalk scene upon which the protagonists appear and approach each other like soft-power gladiators. 

All the while, last but not least, the accompanying music, particularly the beat, lulls us, like the snake-charmer's charm, into a levitated consciousness which...how did they do it, how did they think of that! 

Encore: O play the catwalk again and let the sounds, the beat -- the rhythm -- and the supercharged ears (and eyes) speak for themselves!

Overall, the video is a gracefully sophisticated production: tastefully and absorbingly presented from beginning to end. The style, manifested in all the protagonists's moves, is, well, haute. At the beginning of the video, you don't quite know how it'll all end, even as the beat, which keeps you going regardless, begins to have its luring effect. 

And the suspense mounts because, though you're sure she won't go the whole hog, you don't know where or how the script brings her assault on sensibilities to a stop. What is more, you don't quite have the time to decide who the snake-charmer really is, and who the snake. Suddenly, the invisible curtain -- falls!

NOTE: Here is a 'Sneak Peek' at Muita Areia, Written Earlier

NOTE: Muita Areia was published on September 10th, 2015. It had recorded 2,451,850 YouTube views by 3:55 p.m. (GMT + 3) on December 26, 2015.