Episode 6: Disques Barclay and the International Collection
Music is as long as it is wide. from the smallest pluck of a string, to the incessant groaning of... Read Article
REVIEW Ochentaysiete
Directors Daniel Andrade and Anahí Hoeneisen present us with a well-rounded story, of how teenage friendships survive the test of... Read Article
REVIEW Feriado
Feriado (Holiday) explores the sexuality of Juan Pablo, an upper class Quito teenager. The title is a play on words,... Read Article
Episode 5: Música Popular Ecuatoriana
Before being a musical genre, complete with tonal structures and rhythmic conventions, pop music was just short for popular. It... Read Article
REVIEW Sin Otoño, Sin Primavera
I am always apprehensive about films marketed as tales of youth, love and disenchantment. They can take themselves far too... Read Article
PREMIÈRE: Cuñao “Saana, El Extranjero” [VIDEO]
The artistic evolution of Cuñao continues on their upcoming album and video, premièring exclusively here on Sounds and Colours. “Saana,... Read Article
REVIEW The Afectados
Director Mark Donne’s short documentary covers a 22-year-long battle for legal redress for what Amazon Watch, an independent environmental NGO... Read Article
REVIEW Silencio En La Tierra De Los Sueños (Silence In Dreamland)
This Tito Molina film, the Ecuadorian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2013 Oscars, in the end... Read Article
Episode 4: Love & Faith
This week’s tapes are from the unlabeled section. Sloppy recordings off the radio. Live takes, B Roll, and outtakes, some... Read Article
Episode 3: Olga Gutierrez & Carlos Guerra
Olga Gutierrez was born in Quimilí, Santiago del Estero, Argentina in 1928, and came to Ecuador in 1962. She had... Read Article
Helado Negro “Young, Latin & Proud”
We loved Helado Negro‘s latest single “Young, Latin and Proud” as soon as we heard it and now it has... Read Article
Episode 2: Raul Emiliani
From amongst the hundreds of tapes, one man’s name had a way of resonating a bit louder than the others.... Read Article