Just like their big band Latin swing sound, Monsieur Periné appear to be a band whose trajectory breaks the rules. Late last year, with millions of people worldwide still stuck at home during the pandemic, their very first... Read Article
It’s been four years since the last album of new material from Will “Quantic” Holland and Colombian artist Nidia Góngora, yet this unlikely friendship – struck up when Quantic was living in the Colombian city of Cali a... Read Article
It’s been four years since we’ve heard from Colombia’s Bomba Estéreo, the tropically-charged, electro duo comprising of Li Saumet and Simón Mejía. The group’s previous tracks including ‘Soy Yo’, ‘Fiesta’ and ‘Fuego’ combined psychedelic sounds with traditional Colombian rhythms,... Read Article
Months of lockdown and weeks of protests against a proposed tax hike by the Colombian government and a president in hiding, have seen Colombia descend into scenes of chaos in recent weeks, reminiscent of the country’s turbulent and... Read Article
Things We Dare Not Do (Cosas que no hacemos, 2020) is a heartwarming coming-of-age story with a twist. Mexican cinematographer Bruno Santamaría’s documentary is a portrait of 16-year-old Ñoño. Set in a sleepy Pacific coast village in Mexico,... Read Article
Again Once Again (De nuevo otra vez, 2019) is the debut film from Argentinian director Romina Paula, who blurs fiction and reality as she stars alongside her own real-life mother and son. Opening with a slideshow of family photos,... Read Article
You may not be familiar with French artist Lion’s Drums, an alias of Harold Boué, however, his latest work is something incredibly beautiful and unique. During 2019 the artist spent a week recording with a community of Colombia’s... Read Article
Edinburgh-based Charco Press has been making waves, snapping up the latest literary talent from Latin America, and Chilean author Andrea Jeftanovic’s debut novel Theatre of War is no exception to this trend. Set in an unnamed South American... Read Article
“The memories we return to most frequently are the most inaccurate, the least faithful to reality…“ Mexican author Daniel Saldaña París’ latest novel Ramifications (translated by Christina McSweeney) is centered around a single act that happens during the... Read Article
Frente Cumbiero have certainly made a name for themselves as one of Colombia’s most evolutionary and radical groups from the past musical decade. Far from being solely ‘a band’, the group pride themselves on fusing typical Colombian musics,... Read Article
Pilar Quintana’s novel The Bitch (translated by Lisa Dillman) explores a woman’s yearning for motherhood and the chaos of life in a sprawling backwater on Colombia’s Pacific coast. It is a novel of love, loss and violence. Written... Read Article
Ghetto Kumbé’s self-titled debut album is hypnotic, frantic and quite possibly unlike anything you’ve heard before. Caribbean house beats and electronic rhythms alongside a cacophony of traditional Colombian instruments, the gaita flute and most importantly the drum, tambor.... Read Article
