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By Frank Kinsey 27 July, 2018

Revered as the ‘Godfather of Champeta’, Abelardo Carbonó, is the latest in a growing line of Colombian artists to team... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 26 July, 2018

The Pacific and wider music community throughout Colombia has been in mourning this week, following the tragic murder of marimba... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 26 July, 2018

Earlier in the year, we presented to you La Sonora Mazuren, a crazed new magical carpet of sound emerging from... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 27 June, 2018

Palenque, a name that has always gone hand in hand with Afro-Colombia. “The only one with its own language, is... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 21 June, 2018

Colombia. That well-known meeting point of rockabilly and country, where surf and swing music play out to a big band... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 14 June, 2018

The strings reach blackboard scraping extremes. The sax fills the cavernous vacuums left for it to jaunt. Percussion ranges from... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 13 June, 2018

“I continue because well, it’s what I do. I could be totally ‘out of business’, without even a peso. That... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 12 June, 2018

Argentinian Mati Zundel, better known to many as Lagartijeando, is back with new music for 2018. Following on from last... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 27 March, 2018

His friends used to say, “His accordion speaks for him”. However, the most notable contribution to the genre of forró... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 21 February, 2018

Electronic duo Mitú have had their music described in many ways; yet if there was one word rarely attributed to... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 15 January, 2018

It’s been a crazy couple of years in the Colombian music scene, and it shows no sign of letting up... Read Article

By Frank Kinsey 23 October, 2017

Say it after me: “I am Jungle”. Two years after debut release Kumbé, left-field Afro-House three-piece, Ghetto Kumbé are back... Read Article