An astounding release, Loé Loá – Rural Recordings Under The Mango Tree, placed #3 in our Best Albums of 2017, and with very good reason. Unlike folk recordings that can often seem pleasant or procedural, Loé Loa is... Read Article
Here’s how our editor Russ Slater described Betsayda Machado & La Parranda el Clavo‘s Loe Loa (Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree), as one of our picks for “Best Albums” at the end of 2017: “This was a complete... Read Article
If you’ve been following Sounds and Colours since the start you’ll know that we started off by focusing on South American music. The reason for this was simple: we wanted to show that there was an incredible amount... Read Article
It may have come a few weeks after Christmas, but Venezuelans in New York City had a proper parranda with singer Betsayda Machado y la Parranda El Clavo. Machado and her group, coming off of a standing-room-only debut at a... Read Article
