Dorival Caymmi – The Sounds of Life (Brazil, 2019, dir. Daniela Broitman), a documentary about one of Brazil’s great twentieth-century musicians, is being shown on virtualWOMEX, an “online gateway to the global music community”. Dorival Caymmi was a... Read Article
The contributions of Latin American musicians in soundtracking some of Hollywood’s biggest films is the focus of Sonorama, a new show which will open this year’s La Linea Latin music festival in London. From Juan García Esquivel, whose... Read Article
Nas Vozes De Cartola is quite honestly a collector’s item. For a reason unknown to this critic, Cartola has not been as formally introduced to global audiences as other Brazilian singer-songwriters such as Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque or Tom Jobim.... Read Article
Video filmed in Los Angeles in July 2011 by Mochilla featuring Iara Rennó performing a tribute to Elsie Houston and Carmen Miranda on Hollywood Boulevard. We were already big fans of Iara’s, featuring her on our New Sounds... Read Article
It’s always difficult to make a “best of all time” list. First, I had to decide which qualities were important when making the final choices of films to appear on the list. I decided to use three main... Read Article
Labelled as an epic animated love story between Chico and Rita, in reality this story is all about Cuba and the perennial charm of the music coming from the country. The film begins in Havana in 1948 with... Read Article
