REVIEW Bejuco – Batea
Batea is the first studio album from Bejuco. Hailing from Tumaco in the South Pacific region of Colombia, Bejuco have... Read Article
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MIXTAPE CON ALMA 29: Guacamayo Tropical
Colombian-Spanish duo Guacamayo Tropical are audiovisual artists who focus on rescuing and spreading Latin-American tradition worldwide. Their live sessions are... Read Article
‘Aphasia’: An Exciting Experimental Novel by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
Reviewers of Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas described the book as “innovative”, “monumental”, “a vibrant modernist novel” and one that... Read Article
Music
MIXTAPE RARO 13: Ale Hop (Female Pioneers of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music in Latin America)
Lima-born, Berlin-based Ale Hop (Alejandra Cardenas) is an experimental instrumentalist and researcher whose mammoth body of work includes multi-channel installations,... Read Article
New Sounds Of Peru Playlist #15
We’ve lost so many friends that we longer want to keep count. A whole year later and we are exactly... Read Article
- Chile / Mexico / REVIEW Mon Laferte – SEIS
- Brazil / Brazilian Wax #7
- Caribbean / Colombia / DANZ ON 17: El Dragón Criollo
- Peru / REVIEW QOQEQA – AxuxA
- Brazil / Audio Rebel: How an Alternative Studio in Rio de Janeiro is Surviving the Pandemic
- Chile / CON ALMA 28: Juan Pablo Abalo & Juan Carlos Eyzaguirre
Film
REVIEW The Man Who Writes Women: Chile’s Gonzalo Maza speaks about his Directorial Debut ‘Ella Es Cristina’
Sounds and Colours speaks to the screenwriter behind the Oscar-Winning A Fantastic Woman about his directorial debut Ella Es Cristina.... Read Article
REVIEW ‘Again Once Again’: Romina Paula Blurs Fiction and Reality in an Alternative Coming-Of-Age Movie
Again Once Again (De nuevo otra vez, 2019) is the debut film from Argentinian director Romina Paula, who blurs fiction and... Read Article
- Brazil / REVIEW ‘Valentina’: An Eye-Opening and Moving Depiction of the Challenges Facing Trangender People in Brazil
- Colombia / Peru / Venezuela / Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Latin American Films on the Line-Up
- Brazil / Cuba / Puerto Rico / ‘Huey Morgan’s Latin Music Adventure’: A Musical Tour of Puerto Rico, Brazil and Cuba
- Uruguay / REVIEW ‘Alelí’: A Father’s Death Sends His Heirs into a Downward Spiral in this Uruguayan Comedy
- Brazil / REVIEW ‘Babenco: Tell Me When I Die’: A Touching Love Letter to a Cinematic Giant
- Chile / Chile’s Social Uprising: An Interview with Nick MacWiliam, Director of ‘Santiago Rising’
Arts & Books
Landscapes, Hermits and Storytelling: An Interview with Federico Falco, Author of ‘A Perfect Cemetery’
Federico Falco, the award-winning Argentinian novelist, short story writer and poet, is publishing his first work in English this month... Read Article
‘A Perfect Cemetery’ by Federico Falco: Short Stories about Community and Isolation in Rural Argentina
According the writer G.K. Chesterton, “the man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world”, a... Read Article
- Ecuador / ‘Aphasia’: An Exciting Experimental Novel by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
- Argentina / ‘Little Eyes’ by Samanta Schweblin: Would You Take the Chance to be a Voyeur in Someone Else’s Life?
- Leila Cobo’s ‘Decoding Despacito’ Reveals Confusion and Inequality at the Heart of ‘Latin Music’
- Brazil / ‘A Sunflower in Your Hair – Poems for Marielle Franco’: Pain, Revolt and a Call to Action
- Chile / ‘The Soul of a Woman’: Isabel Allende mediates on feminism, inequality, aging and love
- Argentina / ‘Tender is the Flesh’ by Agustina Bazterrica: Welcome to Cannibalism
¿Qué Más?
Audio Rebel: How an Alternative Studio in Rio de Janeiro is Surviving the Pandemic
I arrive at Audio Rebel, in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, and am struck by how incongruous the space is from... Read Article
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Latin American Films on the Line-Up
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which for the past 30 years has screened films about human rights abuses throughout... Read Article
- ‘A Sunflower in Your Hair – Poems for Marielle Franco’: Pain, Revolt and a Call to Action
- Getúlio: The First Carioca I Met
- EmpoderArte Uses Film to Empower Peruvian Women
- A New Book Honours Female Resistance During Brazil’s 21-year Dictatorship
- Nine songs we’re playing this Valentine’s Day weekend
- An Interview with Damian Platt, author of ‘Nothing By Accident: Brazil on the Edge’