Looking through Best of 2020 lists over the past month or so and it becomes clear that ambient music, and what you might call ‘deep cuts’, have proved especially popular this year, their reviews normally containing comments like... Read Article
This article was originally published by Sounds and Colours’s partner, Latin America Bureau. You can read the original here. It has been a difficult year for film, especially cinema releases but, as the old entertainment saying goes, ‘the show must... Read Article
It’s so nice to see this project finally have a release date. Back in August last year El Búho and the Shika Shika collective launched a fundraiser for another edition of their birdsong project, this time focusing on... Read Article
José, winner of Venice Film Festival’s Queer Lion 2018, offers a tender study of a young, gay man’s life in the periphery of Guatemala City. Although we expect José to escape his circumstances through leaving the country, he... Read Article
We simply had to post this mix of tasty Central American sounds from Majoo Salguero and Ruffy. From two truly dedicated crate diggers, this is a mix full of glorious tropical rhythms from across Central America, taking in... Read Article
Guatemala is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman; there are 56,000 reported acts of violence against women per year. It holds the highest rate of femicides, mostly due to domestic violence,... Read Article
To begin to understand Sara Curruchich and her music, you have to understand a little about Guatemala, a land of soaring volcanoes, breathtaking landscapes, and indigenous Mayan communities that have been struggling to protect their culture and identity... Read Article
“¡Ay, qué manera de caer hacia arriba y de ser sempiterna, esta mujer!” (“Oh, the way this woman has of falling upwards and being eternal!”) These are the opening lines to Pablo Neruda’s poem “Una Elegia para Cantar” (An... Read Article
Ixcanul is set on a coffee plantation in Guatemala, located on the side of an active volcano which gives the film its name. Jayro Bustamante’s debut film has impressed audiences and critics internationally, becoming one of the most... Read Article
This is how we like to start the weekend. With some rare Latin funk and afro grooves from El Salvador and Guatemala! This mix was sent over to us by Ruffy from TNT Discos who has been crate... Read Article
After a visit to the Mayan sites of Yucatan in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize in 1977, Jeanne Masoero became inspired by the landscape surrounding her. The journey became a process of discovery, a process in which the destination... Read Article
Burden of Peace (Original Title: Carga de Paz) is an impressive documentary about Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz’s quest to bring to trial the perpetrators of the Guatemalan genocide. It’s part of the schedule of the Human... Read Article
