The criteria for our annual year-end list is simple: these are collectively our favourite South American albums of the year, which is to say that they are albums that either hail from South America or feature South American... Read Article
Sounds and Colours’ collaboration with the House of Creatives (The HoC), a creative platform run via NYC’s Mishu Music record label, comes to end with spectacular performances by Triángulo de Amor Bizarro, Salt Cathedral, & Alex Ferreira. Galicia, Spain’s, Triángulo de Amor Bizarro (yes, their name hails... Read Article
Astro are not your average pop band. Yes, it may not be completely clear for many listeners that enjoyed their self-titled second album, but there was more than MGMT and Animal Collective references to Andrés Nusser and his... Read Article
Where to begin when you want to discover the newest sounds from Chile? It is always hard to make recommendations, since music is one of the most difficult things to describe. Even the artists themselves find it hard to put... Read Article
If John Everett Millais’ Ophelia was left in the swamp to drown with her clothes on, Camila Moreno’s zombie-sirena will stand up from the water unscathed and uncensored, determined to haunt the world with her songs and evolving... Read Article
If you know anything about Sounds and Colours you will know that we love Astro (otherwise known as our favourite South American pop group!) There are very few bands as melodic, infectious and listenable as Astro, and so... 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 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
Even by the upbeat standards of Astro, new single ‘Hawaii’ is a stab of unbridled effervescence. Set to the sound of waves, seagulls, and a synth-riff that wouldn’t be out of place in an 80s Van Halen video,... Read Article
Fede Cabral’s record Sí is definitely a pleaser for anyone with strong pop sensibilities. Like any good pop record it’s short and sweet, with the first song, a charming, melodic and catchy tune called “Ahora No Lo Sé”,... Read Article
Post-rocky ensembles, pop-choruses, minimalist percussion and simple and honest and intelligent lyrics. The mixture of all these is the Santiago-based band Fármacos who I’ve been following for a while now. Their songs are in Spanish (apart from a... Read Article
The 14th annual Latin Alternative Music Conference rolled into to New York City on July 9 through the 13th, bringing with it brutal humidity and heat, and loads of good music in a variety of subgenres.
