Your guide to the best Latin events coming up in Buenos Aires.
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Argentinian pop has enjoyed a boom in the last few years, with the likes of Emilia, Nicki Nicole and Duki part of a new generation of artists now chart-topping in Spain and Latin America. Among Argentina’s young talent... Read Article
Director Pedro Speroni spent two years living amongst a group of violent criminals at a Buenos Aires maximum-security prison in order to make his film Rancho. He admitted to being terrified at times – especially when he was... Read Article
It was quite a surprise to see Argentinian artist Amparo Battaglia (better known as Catnapp) teaming up with legendary German duo Modeselektor last year to release her music via their Monkeytown Records label. Not that her futuristic mix... Read Article
With examples like the Italian Clap! Clap and British Auntie Flo, the exploration of contemporary and traditional sounds from Africa is more active than ever these days. And Latin American producers are no exception, with Daniel Valle-Riestra, part... Read Article
Thirty-odd years into a life sentence one would imagine that the mind begins to wander. And so, around this time, the attentions of Argentina’s longest serving inmate, Carlos Robledo Puch, turned to how his life story would be... Read Article
Guillermo M. Cerredo and Juan Jose Calarco, two Argentinian producers from Buenos Aires, are definitely not your typical cumbia duo and the interesting story starts as soon as you look at the very name of the project: Panchasila. It... Read Article
Over a career spanning more than five decades, Charly Garcia has gone from the folky, kumbaya leanings of his early work with Sui Generis, through the Progish-pall of Serú Girán, to the more uptempo, pop rock that would... Read Article
Carlos Martínez Sarasola taught, gave talks and conducted his radio program until the end of his life, passing on the knowledge he had collected to new audiences. He died on May 29th, at the age of 69, a... Read Article
One should never allow the expression ”rock ‘n’ roll is dead” slip through the mouths of youth; it’s practically a warning of a whole generation lacking pentatonic blues-driven riffs. Luckily for Buenos Aires, the influence of B.B. King,... Read Article
Roughly 10 years have passed since the subtropical electronic explosion started in Buenos Aires, when cumbia was the defining genre that changed the experimental musical landscape in South America. Times have changed and digital folklore is taking over,... Read Article
The former Argentinean ambassador in Liberia and Perón’s doctor, Hipólito Barreiro, is preparing for the reissue of his book Juan Sosa, the Indian who Changed History (Spanish Title: Juancito Sosa, el Indio Que Cambio la Historia). “In Argentina we... Read Article
Fiero are unlike most bands in Buenos Aires. They don’t check the normal boxes one must check in order to be successful in this scene. They’re not clean. They’re not young. They don’t have setlists. They don’t have... Read Article
Our Last Tango, a documentary on the life and career of tango maestros, María Nieves Rego (83) and Juan Carlos Copes (86), looks back on a professional and personal relationship of over 50 years. Directed by German Kral,... Read Article
“Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler” are purportedly words that tumbled out of Albert Einstein’s mouth many moons ago. It’s this maxim that Argentine musician and producer Fer Isella picks up on... Read Article
San Martín De Los Andes is a small town in the Patagonian mountains, surrounded by picturesque forests and lakes. To most Argentinians it’s just a ski resort, a winter holiday destination for the upper middle class. To the... Read Article
A collaboration between friends from different cities of South America, is the new rap hit from the streets of Buenos Aires. This is where Urbanse, member of the hip-hop crew La Conección Real, makes his moves. “Familia, Respeto, Salud” is an... Read Article
We are happy to bring to you a scintillating new version of “Veneno” from Eliane Correa & En El Aire Project‘s new album Rumba Con Flores. Correa is a pianist, bandleader and singer who has been making a... Read Article
After making a number of guest appearances and releasing two solid EPs – 2008’s Sara Y El Sol and 2012’s AúnAûmÔm – Argentine singer/songwriter Wenceslada has today released her first full-length, Niebla. It’s an album that makes clear... Read Article
The 41st Buenos Aires International Book Fair took place April 21 to May 11 at La Rural fairground and was opened by renowned playwright Roberto “Tito” Coss. There were 500 exhibitors, 4,000 publishing houses and an estimated 1.3... Read Article
Buenos Aires was pulsating with music festivals this November, and porteños’ (as Buenos Aires natives are called) wallets are still recovering. Large international music festivals have been making their way across Latin America in the last few years,... Read Article
To mark the release of Proa Remixed, Argentine band Tremor are releasing a series of videos of their 2013 concert at the Konex Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires. The first of these, to which Sounds and Colours readers... Read Article
Muerte En Buenos Aires (Death In Buenos Aires) directed by Natalia Meta, starts slowly and never recovers. A leading member of Buenos Aires society, one Señor Jaime Figueroa Alcorta aka Snowflake, is found dead in his apartment. In... Read Article
Barrio for barrio, Buenos Aires is the best city in Latin America. Nowhere else will you find the ghosts of early twentieth century high European culture sit alongside radical student squats or any of the gems that sit... Read Article
Buenos Aires Rap is a documentary which, as the name suggests, is about the rap and hip-hop scenes active in Buenos Aires today. But it’s more than that. Directors Diane Ghogomu, Segundo Bercetche and Sebastian Muñoz (pictured above)... Read Article
