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New Music: ‘Cuchi Cuchi’ by Colombia’s Kevin Flórez
Cartagena, Colombia’s Kevin Flórez has a fun, new video featuring fellow champeta urbano artists Mr. Black and Twister El Rey. The... Read Article
Barranquilla: World Capital of African Music?
“¡Barranquilla es la capital mundial de la mùsica africana!” (Barranquilla is the world capital of African music). If you ever have... Read Article
To Be Honest, I Love To Dance: An Interview with Thornato
If you haven’t already, you will soon hear and read his name quite a lot, because Thor Partridge, better known as... Read Article
INTERVIEW: Systema Solar’s Juan Carlos Pellegrino on Their Latest Album ‘Rumbo a Tierra’
Systema Solar hail from the Colombian coast, taking their musical roots from the non-stop music and party scene and Colombian... Read Article
Bogotá’s Tribu Baharu Embark on Second U.S. Tour
Bogotá, Colombia’s “champeta champions” Tribu Baharú are on their way back to the United States to perform in the nation’s capitol... Read ArticleCultural Memory in the Americas: Immemorial
Immemorial is a new film-in-the-making about the natural environments of the Americas and the cultural memory of its people. As... Read Article
Barranquilla’s Carnival is ‘Una Sola Gozadera!’
It’s a hashtag popular among Colombians these days: #hueleacarnaval. Quite simply, it translates to, “It smells like Carnival.” Indeed, we... Read Article
DJ Cal Jader’s Best Tracks of 2015
In what is hopefully becoming an annual tradition here is DJ Cal Jader to bring you some of his favourite... Read Article
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
With The Invention of Nature (subtitled The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science) Andrea Wulf makes... Read Article
Rey de Rocha Mixtape – The Sound of the Picó’s
No one represents better the current sound of the Afro-descendent population of Colombia’s Caribbean coast than Rey de Rocha, a... Read Article