Every year in early July, you can get in touch with music from all over the world in Rudolstadt, Germany. It’s then that the 1240-year-old Thuringian town of 24,000 inhabitants invites approximately 1,000 musicians from around forty countries, and hosts up to... Read Article
New York City’s M.A.K.U. Soundsystem are bringing their “immigrant beats” to Europe this week. The octet, which specializes in Afrocolombian folkloric and funk, is on their “Inevitable Tour,” and have played a string of dates in Hamburg, Germany, ending... Read Article
The folks over at (Buraka Som Sistema‘s label) Enchufada are releasing a bi-monthly series of free singles under the banner of Upper Cuts (they’ve given us goodies like this before), and two blazing tracks caught our attention. The first hails from the German town... Read Article
The first time Sounds and Colours caught up with New York City’s Outernational, they were in the midst of a tour across the United States-Mexico border, on a mission to revolutionize, or at least draw attention to, the debate on... Read Article
Since Carnival season in much of the Caribbean and Latin America is right around the corner, and the 2014 FIFA World Cup inches near, I’ve developed an extra penchant for music that sounds like a celebration. And new... Read Article
