Fresh from the success of the first ever edition, comes Fiebre Tropical Vol. 2, an event that promises to be bigger and better than the last. Taking place on Friday 29th August at Barranquilla’s legendary Hotel El Prado,... Read Article
An organic thing happened when six musicians from Barranquilla moved into an apartment in Bogota in 2005. Their like-minded musical tastes and interests made way for a new band, Colectro, that practices a form of musical expression dubbed... Read Article
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
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
