Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed is the title of a new book, an extended photo essay if you will, featuring the photography of B+, and it couldn’t better sum up the musical characters that fill many of its... Read Article
Considering the amount of Brazilian reissues that came out this year we felt compelled to bring a few of the finest to your attention, as well as a compilation from a stone-cold Colombian legend and some really nice classic cumbia... Read Article
Following on from his superb Tim Maia mixtapes from the last couple of years, Digital Vagabondz (aka DJ DBVZ) has put together this superb mix of tracks from Brazilian soap opera (or novelas, to use their Portuguese name)... Read Article
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson is a musician and arranger who has worked with a wide variety of musicians including Will.I.Am, Aloe Blacc, Flying Lotus, Mia Doi Todd and Ray Charles. It is very likely that he has worked on some... Read Article
Arthur Verocai was one of Brazilian music’s true hidden secrets. For decades, the Brazilian arranger and composer was barely remembered in his own country. Then he found out that his first record – ignored by both critics and... Read Article
Quadron are a danish duo making soul music. With their tight arrangements (evoking Willie Mitchell’s for Al Green) and honeyed vocals, they often shine as bright as The Supremes at their finest, but yet also offer the odd... Read Article
This Friday’s mixtape is veering a little away from type, mainly because it’s not actually mixed. What you will get instead is a .zip file containing 50 [this is now just 47 as we had to take out... Read Article
Tom Crookston’s Nossa Brazil blog is one of our favourite things on the web, offering valuable insight into modern Brazilian culture. He also compiled the Dirty Bossa Nova mixtape, one of the finest mixtapes ever to grace Sounds... Read Article
Not strictly a South American mix today, although it is a mix that reflects how Brazilian and Colombian music fits into the hip-hop aesthetic. This mix was put together by the record label Mochilla as a way of... Read Article
Our very good friend Tom Crookston (aka Tommy Digital), over at the Nossa! Brazil blog, has very kindly submitted this mixtape for us to post. Tom describes it as: A 56 minute journey through bossa nova, Brazilian funk,... Read Article
In our constant search for new sounds and artists we always like to feature a few mixtapes on the site, provided by as wide assortment of musicians, DJs, enthusiasts and general interesting folk as we can find. Today’s... Read Article
The Sounds of VTech / Na Boca Do Sol: Verocai Live at Los Angeles Theater Center Arthur Verocai performed in Los Angeles for the second time a couple of weeks ago. It seems as if it was a... Read Article
