Times have changed for Waldemar Bastos in 2003, when the war in Angola came to an end after 42 years. He was invited to celebrate this very special day with a remarkable performance in the national stadium in Luanda in April 2003. In the end his struggle for unity and brotherhood was rewarded!



Waldemar realized that it was time to fulfill his dream of recording an “Afropean” - Guitar album for the 21st century. After taking this decision the events followed up quickly and he had the unique chance to record his new album “Renascence”. The events started in San Pedro de Alcántara, Spain, where Waldemar brought together some of the most outstanding musicians of Africa, from Congo to Angola and from Mozambique to Guinea. The journey into a new expression of contemporary African music began.



The story continued in Berlin, where while he was recording, he invited some young musicians from Portugal and Martinique to take part in this musical journey. When Waldemar decided to go to Istanbul, to record the strings which can be heard on “Renascence”, he showed once more that music is borderless and a key to unite people by using it as a bridge between cultures. Finally the musical path brought him to London where he finished together with his producer Paul “Groucho” Smykel the mixing of “Renascence”.