Inspired by their black-and-white stage set, with a full moon and a few stray dogs to give an abstract vision of their home town, the old port of Valparaiso, the latest video from Chilean romanticists Macha y el... Read Article
The live sets of Chilean cumbia band Chico Trujillo are legendary. Their punk take on cumbia was lapped up by Chilean audiences when they emerged post-Pinochet (in 1999) and since then they have gone from strength-to-strength, recently getting international... Read Article
Here at Sounds and Colours, we’ve always given credit to Chile’s Chico Trujillo for bringing cumbia (fused with ska and punk rock) to the masses. Now, a New York City a band is bringing a very similar brand... Read Article
This April, London’s Latin music festival La Línea returns for its sixteenth year in the capital, bringing some of the best contemporary talents from Latin America to venues across the city. Chile’s kings of cumbia Chico Trujillo will... Read Article
Picture yourself in a rural Chilean Andean town, or even in the highlands of Mexico, it’s carnival season and you are immersed in a colourful and warm-sounded rhythm with no chance of not dancing. This is what Chico... Read Article
Enjoyed reading about our favourite South American albums of the year? Well, now we’ve put together a Soundcloud playlist featuring tracks from some of those albums as well as lots of other choice selections from across the year.... Read Article
Ask any Colombian, and they’ll tell you there’s nothing as beautiful as the tradition of noche de velitas (night of the candles) on the 7th of December. Held on the Eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the... Read Article
Chico Trujillo have just finished their ‘European Revenge Tour’, playing Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Norway and Sweden. The band has toured Europe for more than a decade and has been instrumental in introducing ‘New Chilean Cumbia’ to... Read Article
There is little doubt that it has been a great year for South American music. The proof of that can be found in how hard it was for us to select just 20 albums as representing the cream... Read Article
Sometimes I feel as if Chico Trujillo were a band born to alleviate the current lack of troubadours in contemporary Latin American music. This is not to say that there aren’t (hip hop, cumbia and folk artists have... Read Article
In the not-too-distant past, if you’d wanted to read Sounds and Colours, you’d probably have gone to the newsagent’s and bought the printed magazine. Nowadays, the majority of us get our information online and the market for pay-for... 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
