Two exciting bands from Colombia will be heading their way to Rich Mix in East London on Thursday 29th June as part of Movimientos‘ New Sounds of Colombia event. Both Masilva and Colectro have been active for a... Read Article
A new music video by Colombia’s Colectro pays homage to one of popular characters and dances seen each year at Carnaval— el “Son de Negro.” “Son de Negro” is named after a traditional dance and one of the characters prominent in... Read Article
Bogotá-based Colectro, known for their style of folkloric-tinged rock, which they coined coletera, have released a new album. Coletera, which dropped the 25th of August, is 12-tracks of high energy Caribbean-infused music with elements of bullerengue, son de negro, jalao and chalupa; mixed with electrónica and soukous. It’s... Read Article
Colombian artists are no strangers to concocting songs for the women in their lives. The great Joe Arroyo had two: “Tania (1974)” and “Catalina del Mar (1980).” Los Hermanos Zuleta had an ode to a heartbreaker by the name of “Indira.” The late... Read Article
If there was ever a genre called “tropical indie” then Emje Rose would be its leading practitioner. The young singer/songwriter from Barranquilla, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, wowed us a couple of years ago with a DIY recording of... Read Article
A collaborative project by the Todomono collective along with a variety of our favorite artists and DJs has resulted in a special album that brings the sounds of Barranquilla to listeners. “Sonsonete: la memoria sonora de Barranquilla” took... Read Article
It’s always ‘puro vacilón’ when our favorite Bogotá, Colombia,-based Barranquilleros release new music. Colectro, which dub their style of folkloric-tinged rock music as coletera, have gifted fans with quite the psychedelic track in ‘Magende.’ The video features the psychedelic journey of... Read Article
An organic thing happened when six musicians from Barranquilla moved into an apartment in Bogota in 2005. Their like-minded musical tastes and interests made way for a new band, Colectro, that practices a form of musical expression dubbed... Read Article
