Entropia-Entalpia is a multi-instrumentalist and producer from Recife, who, following a two-year stint in Angola, moved to São Paulo, becoming a linchpin within the city’s world-revered alternative club scene. An integral member of the coveted Mamba Negra collective,... Read Article
King Kong en Asunción opens with us in the backseat of a 4×4, as the protagonist (deftly played by Andrade Júnior, who sadly passed away before the film was released) drives into the salt flats of Bolivia to... Read Article
It was a hot day in the beautiful town of Amarante, the Portuguese base of Brazil’s MIMO festival. I’m chatting to Otto prior to his show at Parque Ribeirinho in the evening and a day after seeing him... Read Article
The rich musicality of Brazil needs to be better shared, even amongst Brazilians, as there are so many rhythmic varieties. Varieties, that even in Brazil, are little explored. Noting the urgency of disseminating little-known sonorities, the producer Maga... Read Article
Nação Zumbi originated in the early 90s, climbing like a ‘crab with brains’ from the fertile mud of the delta on which the north-eastern Brazilian city of Recife grew. Back in the 90s Recife was struggling, suffering under... Read Article
For his latest album, Apoio Marginal, Brazilian musician Juvenil Silva had the idea of creating each song with a new set of collaborators. Juvenil would turn up with a song, play guitar and sing vocals, and another set... Read Article
After working together for a track on their last album Alexandre, Pernambuco group Mombojó have once again teamed up with French singer Laetitia Sadier – best known as the lead vocalist for Stereolab – for what will be... Read Article
Fans of Raul Seixas, Lula Côrtes and Hawkwind are going to love “Amor Pesado”, a sweet new slice of Brazilian psych from Recife’s Tagore. The track continues the sound that Tagore – led by singer/guitarist Tagore Suassuna –... Read Article
The musical jewels of Pernambuco are uncovered by Boebis in his latest mix for us, a cornucopia of delights from one of Brazil’s most culturally rich states. Here’s his intro: “‘Size doesn’t matter’, could well be the motto... Read Article
Luiz Gabriel Lopes is the guitarist and lead singer of Graveola and TiãoDuá, two of Brazil’s most exciting bands and cornerstones of the music scene in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, which is where Luiz currently lives. He has picked... Read Article
It’s been a while since Alessandra Leão‘s last release, the intoxicating album Dois Cordões in 2009 which summed up a new mangue-folk sound perfectly, a distillation of North-Eastern Brazil’s rhythms into serene folk songs that highlighted Leão’s voice... Read Article
25th November, 2013 was a strange day. It was the day Sounds and Colours released our new book/CD Sounds and Colours Brazil. It was also the day that the incredible Brazilian artist Gilvan Samico passed away. The following... Read Article
