A special New Year’s treat here in the shape of two new mixes from La Tabaquera – aka the latest project from Rodrigo Caçapa and Alessandra Leão – both celebrating classic Colombian music. We originally featured La Tabaquera’s... Read Article
Over the past sixty years, the Colombian music genre Cumbia has rocked dance floors in it’s native land as well as the global music stage. However, cumbia has not always been so popular with the music-loving masses. Its... Read Article
In April this year Soundway Records released Aqui Los Bravos! The Best of Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo 1967 – 77, a collection of pure Colombian dancefloor thunder. A mixture of guagancós, descargas and cumbias recorded by... Read Article
“In my land people dance to cumbia with candles and the drum gets happy.” Muchachas Cumbiamberas, Andres Landero During my first visit to South America I held Cumbia in nothing but total disdain. It seemed to be a... Read Article
