At least 14 people dead and over 1,400 detained, a state of emergency in 11 of the country’s 16 regions and major cities under curfew (some starting at 6pm) is a summary of what’s currently going on in... Read Article
Anita Tijoux has bid farewell to her Chilean homeland to record new music in France. Before her departure, she performed a special concert in Santiago to celebrate her 22 years in music. We use the occasion to look... Read Article
The latest release comes as a part of the Chilean folk-rock singer’s multi-format Pangea project. Last year, Camila Moreno took an indefinte hiatus from live concerts, bidding farewell to audiences with a large show at Santiago’s Caupolican theatre,... Read Article
On his latest record Chicago-born pianist and composer Stu Mindeman returns to his childhood years in Chile. After spending time there as a toddler, during a period when his father was performing for the Santiago Symphony, he decided... Read Article
Kicking off 2016 with various festival appearances throughout her homeland Chile, Anita Tijoux has spent her springtime forming and rehearsing with a new band. Luckily for Santiaguinos, Anita has dedicated a large part of March and April playing... Read Article
The songs of Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux are more than just that. They are weapons of equality, defiance and peace. Tracks like “1977”, “Shock”, and more recently, “Somos Sur” and “Antipatriarca”, have become songs of protest and revolution,... Read Article
The hardest thing about any end-of-year list is whittling the list down to just a few. This year has been as tough as ever, with amazing albums by Lucas Santtana, Igapó de Almas, Boom Boom Clan, La Chiva... Read Article
We asked Movimientos’ Cal Jader – a man at the heart of London’s Latin American music scene – to pick out 10 of his favourite tracks of the year, and boy has he delivered. It’s a selection that... Read Article
To finish off our Chilean month here on Sounds and Colours we thought we’d pick out some of our favourite modern albums from the country. It is fair to say that the music scene has blossomed in recent... Read Article
As if to confirm her ascent to global torchbearer of muscial activism, Anita Tijoux’s new video for ‘Somos Sur’, the second single from new album Vengo (reviewed here in S&C), salutes the many grassroots social movements taking place around the world.... Read Article
Ana Tijoux, whose new album Vengo has just been released to wide acclaim (read S&C’s review here), recently took time out from her busy schedule at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas to speak exclusively to Sounds and... Read Article
In the past sixteen months or so, I have had the good fortune to see Ana Tijoux twice in concert. The first occasion was outside the Bellas Artes Museum in Santiago where the Chilean rapper, noticeably in the... Read Article
