We are now just a day away from the start of this year’s WOMAD, a festival which is quite rightly deemed the #1 world music festival in the UK. The festival, which was set-up by Peter Gabriel and... Read Article
Ever since she dropped her debut album Ela in 2013, Brazilian musician Dom La Nena has soothed and caressed us with her delicate music, showing us that her first album was no fluke by releasing the equally (if not... Read Article
With carnival season in full swing, there can be nothing better than yet another Sounds and Colours exclusive, this time the new video from Brazil’s fantastic Dom La Nena. The tune is ‘Batuque’, remixed by Jeremy Sole and... 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
The criteria for our annual year-end list is simple: these are collectively our favourite South American albums of the year, which is to say that they are albums that either hail from South America or feature South American... Read Article
The career of Brazilian-born Dom La Nena has amplified steadily since age five when she began to study piano, and then cello. Now, 20 years later, a multi-instrumentalist, composer and vocalist, Dom has released her second solo album,... Read Article
When Dom la Nena released her debut album Ela (“She” in Portuguese) earlier this year, she opened an ever-expanding arc of musical expression shadowed inevitably by the Brazilian rhythms of her birth. With a growing earnestness to create,... Read Article
As a reasonably tolerant person, I like to think that I wait at least five minutes before casting eternal judgement upon the latest sounds to pay my ears a visit. But every once in a while something comes... Read Article
