It's the black vinyl edition that we're reviewing here but, as usual in such cases, we'd imagine that any comments about one version would apply to the other. Released both as a limited edition on coloured vinyl and a standard edition on black vinyl, Arabusta's rerelease of Já Bô Corre D'Mim is one that has evidently materialised by virtue of the label's passion for this vintage cult favourite. The resultant auditory brew lends Lopes a distinctive artistic identity that might well have afforded him a considerable fame, but such commercial success was not to be and, as a result, the album's scarce original pressing today changes hands for well over £100. This geographically-varied life-experience can be heard in Já Bô Corre D'Mim, a lively, passionate record in which the accordion-centric Funaná of Lopes' native Cape Verde is combined with heartfelt reggae, gregarious funk and-in the case of 'Bô Soriso Ê Tudo'-even heartstring-tugging acoustic balladry.

Italy's Arabusta Records is one of the latest to throw their hats into the ring, offering with their debut release a first-time reissue of Já Bô Corre D'Mim, the 1984 sophomore solo album by Tchiss Lopes, a globe-trotting artist who, originally hailing from Cape Verde, ultimately settled in Italy but not before visiting countries as disparate as Brazil and Poland in his capacity as a worker aboard a cargo ship.

Too good to be true 1984