Given that there are but a handful of records in existence from Colombian champeta icon Abelardo Carbonó, as we mark his second release of 2018, one might argue that last year was rather eventful for the tropical guitar wizard.... Read Article
Lucas Silva is a workaholic. If he’s not recording music, he’s shooting a music video or a documentary or writing a script or something else. It was hard to catch him during my first trip to Colombia because... Read Article
Revered as the ‘Godfather of Champeta’, Abelardo Carbonó, is the latest in a growing line of Colombian artists to team up with British producer Quantic. Best known for a motley catalogue of styles, mesmeric guitar skills and psychedelic... Read Article
Ghetto Kumbé´s concept is as powerful as it is simple, a journey to the rhythmic Afro-Caribbean roots of Colombia fuelled by the hypnotic power of African house beats. With just three members, Edgardo Garcés (aka E Guajiro), Juan... Read Article
A new Cal Jader mix is always an event, especially when it’s a 2013 special, and so we had no delays in posting this tasty new nugget from Cal aka the man responsible for Movimientos, an increasingly hard-to-define... Read Article
Today is El Día Nacional de la Afrocolombianidad in Colombia, which essentially means National Afro-Colombian Day (May 21st was chosen as it’s also the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development). To celebrate Afro-Colombian culture we’ve... Read Article
