Best Albums of 2018
Time for our round-up of the best albums of the year and, as ever, the criteria remains the same. These are the albums by Latin American and Latin American-descendant artists that we think are the best of the... Read Article
Elza Soares
Elza Soares Returns With New Album ‘Deus é Mulher’
Following on from the huge critical success of A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo (The Woman At The End Of The World), Elza Soares returns with a follow-up album of sorts. Deus é Mulher (Translating as “God Is... Read Article
MIXTAPE Cal Jader’s Best Of 2017 Mixtape Part 1
Following on from his Top 10 Tunes of 2017, Cal Jader has now sent us over part of his Best of 2017 mixtape. Featuring tracks from across Latin America as well as bands formed by Latin American migrants... Read Article
PREMIÈRE: Alessandra Leão Unites Brazil and Colombia In New Continental Collaboration
In her latest video Brazilian singer, musician and composer Alessandra Leão teamed up with an ensemble of Colombian and Brazilian musicians for a live performance that shows that there really is no need for there to be a divide... Read Article
Meet The Maverick Musicians Behind Elza Soares’ ‘The Woman at the End of the World’
dElza Soares‘ most recent album The Woman at the End of the World (A Mulher do Fim do Mundo) has undoubtedly been one of our favourite albums of the past couple of years (and has been one of the... Read Article
Best Tracks of 2016 (So Far…)
As we’re now more than half the way through 2016 we figured it was only right that we shared some of the tracks that we’ve been loving so far this year. What follows is a playlist featuring some... Read Article
REVIEW Elza Soares – The Woman at the End of the World
There is nothing surprising about the way that Elza Soares‘ latest album begins. Soares is one of Brazil’s most revered singers, loved for her highly-emotive delivery. Her sincere, raw, guttural voice has always distinguished her from the pack, but as she... Read Article
MIXTAPE Marcelo Monteiro’s Novíssima Música Brasileira Mixtape
Having been the man behind Far Out Recordings’ great compilation of new Brazilian music last year – entitled Amplificador Novissima Musica Brasileira – and the recently-released Novissima Musica Brasileira on Sony Music Brasil, Marcelo Monteiro is clearly on... Read Article
Music and Democracy: 17 Brazilian Artists Against The Coup (DJ Pequi Mixtape and Interview with Lucas Santtana)
It was late 2015 when the first calls for Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff to be impeached were received, principally arguing that the president had been fiscally irresponsible, as well as other charges, some related to the Operation Car... Read Article
MIXTAPE Boebis’ Música Do Fim Do Mundo – A Brazilian 2015 Mix
It is almost impossible to keep up with all the new music that gets released in Brazil every year, so prolific is the country’s output, with a constantly exciting and innovative independent music scene that seems to be... 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 tracks from some of those albums as well as lots of other choice selections from across the year.... Read Article
Best Albums of 2015
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