One of the best-renowned traditional Pacifico music groups from Colombia, Canalón de Timbiquí have garnered an international reputation over the years for their playing, and recently put out some of their greatest recordings to date on their last... Read Article
The Pacific region of Colombia is a unique and complicated place. Its population is predominantly Afro-Colombian, in some parts as much as 90%, and it is thought to be largely made up of descendents of escaped slaves who... Read Article
Canalón de Timbiqui released their latest album, De Mar y Río, last month. As with previous albums, it contains a mixture of traditional songs from the Timbiqui region near Colombia’s Pacific coast where the group hail from, as... Read Article
“Saints are being painted, I want to paint too, A black saint was finally painted and we are going to celebrate” (“En el cielo pintan santos, yo también quiero pintar, Pintaron un santo negro y hoy lo vamo’... Read Article
With December officially upon us and the escalating festive madness well and truly in its stride, most can relate to the search for familiarity amidst chaos. Compared to the impending sense of disorientation that Colombia’s Elkin Robinson must feel... Read Article
“I continue because well, it’s what I do. I could be totally ‘out of business’, without even a peso. That doesn’t matter to me. If I have money, if I don’t, it’s only me. If I die financially,... Read Article
Creole twang, off-beat guitar skiffle and lyrics in English. It’s a long way from the drum-heavy choruses and whistles often associated with music hailing from Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Then again, the Caribbean Island of Providencia that Elkin Robinson,... Read Article
