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
Colombia’s experimental tropicalistas Meridian Brothers are back with a new track, “Vertigo”. With a shuffling rhythm and bursts of keyboards the track resembles the works of electronic music mavericks Raymond Scott and Bruce Haack, with just the groove... Read Article
Romperayo are all set to release their second album in vinyl and digital formats via UK-based Discrepant Records. We have to be honest and say that we’ve heard a sneak peek of some of these tracks and you are... Read Article
If Quentin Tarantino were able to make a kids movie with Salvador Dali, then they’d want Los Pirañas to write the soundtrack. Playful yet psychedelic melodies curve around this surreal album, played on frantic, bending, twanging guitars that... Read Article
Everything we love about music is instilled in Colombian band Los Pirañas. The tropical noise trio from Bogotá – whose members are the mainstays of bands like Frente Cumbiero, Meridian Brothers and Romperayo – play music with no fear,... Read Article
This is the long overdue international debut single from Colombia’s Romperayo. Originally a one-man production job as Pedro Ojeda (drummer for Ondatrópica, Los Pirañas, Frente Cumbiero, Sidestepper, Mucho Indio, amongst others) experimented with tropical music samples, percussion and... Read Article
It’s a simple but surreal concept at the heart of Meridian Brothers‘ latest video. Devised by the group’s main man Eblis Álvarez, along with Bogotá-based artist Mateo Rivano, the video stars El Gran Pájaro De Los Andes (The... Read Article
Salvadora Robot by Colombia’s Meridian Brothers was one of our favourite albums of 2014 – as its placing in our Best Of 2014 list attests – and here is a gem of a video for album track “Doctor... Read Article
Following hot on the heels of our Best Albums of 2014 we present to you a playlist featuring some of our favourite tracks of the year. Many of these also feature in our Best Albums list but there... Read Article
The hardest thing about any end-of-year list is whittling the list down to just a few. This year has been as tough as ever, with amazing albums by Lucas Santtana, Igapó de Almas, Boom Boom Clan, La Chiva... Read Article
A new compilation on Staubgold records has collected together recordings made by Ensamble Polifonico de Vallenato and Sexteto La Constelación de Colombia in 1999/2000. While these names may not be familiar at first glance, the musicians involved certainly... Read Article
It bends but it does not break. You can take cumbia and you can twist it, curve it, flex it but you won’t change its nature. That seems to be the concept behind the first and only recording... Read Article
