Mallu Magalhães was one of the first musicians in Brazil to get famous through “the internet”, way back in 2007. Mallu, short for Maria Luiza, was fifteen when she uploaded four songs on the social network MySpace. All... Read Article
There is a certain hour in Havana’s evenings when you can’t avoid it — an omnipresent wind like an invisible snake leads you slowly, almost without intention, to the Malecón, where night and music always fall together. This... Read Article
Jorge Drexler is a creatively scientific riddle. The Uruguayan-born, Madrid-based, medical degree-holding songwriter has carved a career out of exploring the boundaries and frontiers between love, science and everything in between. His latest album, Tinta y Tiempo, is... Read Article
We are back at it again, with a fresh dose of music from the land of Chile, between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. A place where guitar pop has always maintained its popular status, with Yorka and... Read Article
Mere days before she died, at age 91, Elza Soares was as active as ever. On the 17th and 18th January she recorded a DVD, accompanied by the pianist Fábio Leandro, in the main hall of the iconic... Read Article
It’s curious that two separate German labels should release two albums by Brazilian singers on the same day, seemingly quite independently of each other. “Curiouser and curiouser” that the two singers in question – the illustrious Flora Purim... Read Article
The first release from Timebeing, Uji’s upcoming visual album, “Oropo”, is familiar yet unexplored territory at the same time. Uji, a musician, producer and ethnomusicologist, is well known within Latin America’s experimental electronic scene, and “Oropo” is certainly... Read Article
One of the highlights of Krak In Dub‘s 2021 album, Catleya (Bogota Sessions), now has a music video. “Recógela”, a track featuring Colombia’s vocal trio La Perla and Bermudan singer Troy Berkley, has got even more continental with... Read Article
Ever since Coleman Hawkins forged the template for the tenor saxophone in jazz, the instrument has been synonymous with the male sex: the classic silhouette of the tall hombre wielding the big brass horn. Things are changing a... Read Article
She’s more than Grammy-winner Petrona Martínez’s marimba player… she’s the Queen of marimba de chonta, and her song has only just begun. Nietzsche was right when he said “without music, life would have no meaning, existence would be... Read Article
March was a very chaotic and prolific month, and April was not far behind. The last few weeks we’ve been introduced to many new projects and artists, and here’s the proof with a fine selection provided by the... Read Article
Taking the dream pop tune “Automatic System” to a more electronic territory, Rubio add dramatism and movement to the song, originally by Parrot Dream, moving from a two-minute downtempo introduction to an electropop build-up, creating a cinematic scene... Read Article
