For two musicians well-accustomed to fronting a psychotropic outpouring of vigour, one would be hard pushed to meet a pair of characters more laid-back than La Sonora Mazurén’s Nicolás Eckardt and Iván Medellín. Sitting downstairs in the café... Read Article
On Saturday March 1st 2014 Sounds and Colours will be taking part in a night of films, music and haunted happenings in a church in East London, with the main aim of freaking people the hell out! Our... Read Article
If you cross the sweltering Peruvian jungle with the urban wastelands of London’s music scene, and probably throw in some mind-bending substances as well, this is apparently what it sounds like. Fongo is the new album from Los... Read Article
It’s that time of the year again when we select some of our favourite releases from the last year, albums either made by South Americans or suitably inspired by South American music as to be deemed worthy of... Read Article
Cal Jader, the main man behind London’s Latin music promoters Movimientos, has just put together this amazing mix of cumbia and we wanted to share it with you. The mix features both old and new styles of cumbia,... Read Article
If Pulp Fiction had been a South rather than North American production, there is no doubt it’s soundtrack would have oozed chicha. It’s not hard to see why the music has enjoyed something of a resurgence in recent... Read Article
Chicha, a unique form of cumbia from Peru has had something of a renaissance since Olivier Conan released his already-legendary compilation The Roots of Chicha in 2007. That compilation largely showed the Amazonian side of cumbia, featuring bands... Read Article
Chicha or Peruvian cumbia, as it is often known, is on the rise. Since Barbes Records released The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru in 2007 the popularity of the genre has grown both internationally and in... Read Article
I can still remember hearing The Roots of Chicha for the first time. I was in Choele Choel in Argentina asking a guy called Fernando for some music, in the hopes that he would put me onto some... Read Article
When journalists in Lima want to write about Chicha, the psychedelic-meets-Amazon music once popular in Peru, ironically, they place a call to Brooklyn’s Chicha Libre. The new band—led by Barbès club owner Olivier Conan—is reviving the style that... Read Article
