En route to Santiago’s La Cupula theatre the police have shut off traffic for some unknown reason. This means hopping out of the cab and trekking across the vast expanse of the city’s O’Higgins Park (named after the... 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
Back from Isla Grande, we spent a few days in Cartagena, a beautiful city, also one of the most important historical ports in the American continent. The city is Colombia’s prime tourist destination, a vibrant place, full of... Read Article
We have 3 copies of the latest instalment in Soundway Records’ excellent series of releases on Colombia music to giveaway. Aqui Los Bravos! The Best Of Michi Sarmiento y Su Combo Bravo 1967-77 is a disc of pure... Read Article
Miles Cleret’s Soundway Records continue their winning streak with this 16-track compilation of barnstorming dancefloor rhythms from little-known Colombian bandleader Michi Sarmiento.
We arrived into the Buenaventura bay on a motor boat, coming from Ladrilleros. Compared to the small town where we spent the previous days, Buenaventura seemed like a huge city. We stayed at the hotel Titanic, where we... Read Article
Soundway Records, the Brighton-based label dedicated to the mining of global grooves, might well only consider itself a conduit for the music it releases, and insist that the tunes are where the light ought to be shone. Realistically,... Read Article
With every new Soundway Records release comes a new wave of great music to listen to. Cartagena! – subtitled Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound of Colombia 1962 – 1972 – is no different.... Read Article
Bomba Estereo released their new digital EP Ponte Bomb on Tuesday 18th January. The EP features the group’s cover of Technotronic’s dance-floor classic “Pump Up The Jam” as well as a collection of new remixes for “Fuego” and... Read Article
DJ and Artist Isa Gt (Medellin, Colombia) has advanced to the Final in Diesel’s international music project Stupid for Music Cup. In the cup, fans compete against each other by performing funny challenges, inspired by the fashion brand’s... Read Article
As any student of Columbian music will tell you, in the 1970 and 80s, the hot sound systems of Barranquilla and Cartegena were not into disco but were looking to their African roots and mixing it up with... Read Article
A possible upcoming project from French film-maker Vincent Moon and Colombian musical explorers Lulacruza aims to be “a travelling visual album that lies in between music and cinema.” Vincent Moon, a roaming film-maker whose credits include La Blogotheque,... Read Article
