Chico Trujillo
PREMIÈRE: Chico Trujillo Offshoot Macha y el Bloque Depresivo Aims To Bring You Down
The live sets of Chilean cumbia band Chico Trujillo are legendary. Their punk take on cumbia was lapped up by... Read Article
New music: ‘PACHAHUASKA’ by NYC’s Escarioka
Here at Sounds and Colours, we’ve always given credit to Chile’s Chico Trujillo for bringing cumbia (fused with ska and... Read Article
La Linea Festival Brings The New Sounds of Latin America To London
This April, London’s Latin music festival La Línea returns for its sixteenth year in the capital, bringing some of the... Read Article
REVIEW Chico Trujillo – Reina De Todas Las Fiestas
Picture yourself in a rural Chilean Andean town, or even in the highlands of Mexico, it’s carnival season and you... Read Article
Best of 2015 Playlist
Enjoyed reading about our favourite South American albums of the year? Well, now we’ve put together a Soundcloud playlist featuring... Read Article
‘Noche de velitas’ in Colombia & new mixes from Barranquilla’s Todomono
Ask any Colombian, and they’ll tell you there’s nothing as beautiful as the tradition of noche de velitas (night of the... Read Article
Chilean Cumbia’s European Invasion: An Interview with Chico Trujillo
Chico Trujillo have just finished their ‘European Revenge Tour’, playing Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Norway and Sweden. The band... Read Article
Best Albums Of 2013
There is little doubt that it has been a great year for South American music. The proof of that can... Read Article
REVIEW Chico Trujillo – Gran Pecador
Sometimes I feel as if Chico Trujillo were a band born to alleviate the current lack of troubadours in contemporary... Read Article
Nervous Musicians Abound as Chile’s Oveja Negra Record Label Ceases CD Production
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... Read Article