Dive into South America’s Underground with Sello In-Correcto’s Latest Compilation
Bogotá’s Sello In-Correcto recently released the third edition of its El Sudaca Contraataca compilation, a series of albums which bring together some... Read Article
Eduardo Galeano
The 15 Must Read Books For Anyone Travelling to Latin America
I can still vividly remember the weeks preceding my first excursion alone in Latin America, to Nicaragua and Honduras, in... Read Article
Five Best Books About Latin American History
When I first saw Sounds and Colours ask for a list of the top books in Latin American history, I... Read Article
Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires 2015
The 41st Buenos Aires International Book Fair took place April 21 to May 11 at La Rural fairground and was... Read Article
In Memoriam: Eduardo Galeano
“Now I feel more than ever proud of having been born in America, in this shit, in this marvel”: an... Read Article
El Gol de Galeano
Like the most of us, Eduardo Galeano had never been a footballer. Well, of course he played fútbol, but he... Read Article
Eduardo Galeano Acknowledges the Weaknesses of ‘The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.’
History and Eduardo Galeano have an intimate relationship. History offers Galeano timeless access to the scrolls that disentangle themselves across... Read Article
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Imagine: a proud lion has been chased, shot and trapped by poachers who descended heavy-footed upon his land. The poachers... Read Article
REVIEW Calle 13 – MultiViral
Few albums are as well crafted and thought out as Calle 13‘s fifth record MultiViral. Through it, the hybrid rap/alt-rock/urban/experimental... Read Article
MIXTAPE ¡Oyé, Oyé! Candombe Uruguayo Mixtape
Last month we got an email from the Brazilian music/graphic design collective coletivoACTION telling us about a mixtape of Uruguayan... Read Article
Eduardo Galeano’s Children of The Days: A Calendar of Human History
Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Los hijos de los días), by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, illuminates... Read Article
Burnt Oranges. The Stream of Life – Dimensions of Exile
Like many of her contemporaries, Silvia Malagrino left Argentina in 1978 to escape the repressive military dictatorship. Three decades later, she filmed her return, reflecting her desire to know and remember her abandoned country, to find a way to be present and absent from the histories that haunt her.