Soft electro chords, stellar echoes, playfulness and cosmic beats are the spine of Mateo Kingman’s second album, Astro. The record opens with “Umbral” (‘beginning’ or ‘threshold’, in English) and it feels as though this is more of a... Read Article
The southern Pacific region of Colombia and Ecuador’s Esmeraldas province may be separated by a border, but it hasn’t affected their musical synchronicity. On Rio Mira‘s debut album musicians from this particular stretch of the Pacific coast have... Read Article
There can be no doubt that the marimba has emerged as an instrument of note in Latin America, though this can be largely put down to the increased interesting in Afro-Latin music from the Pacific coast of Colombia,... Read Article
It seems like ZZK Records have caught the Ecuadorian bug. Following on from the release of the incredible Prender El Alma by Ecuador’s Nicola Cruz last year, a big step in their move away from the digital cumbia... Read Article
