When the LA-based Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Rodrigo Amarante, delivered his first solo album Cavalo in 2014, it announced a new and genuinely original talent. Amarante had been a part of the rock group Los Hermanos, the samba... Read Article
With a great year behind them, including a small tour in Mexico and performances in Santiago where they shared a stage with Canadian experimental jazz outfit Badbadnotgood, Chilean pop band Fármacos are preparing for what will be a... Read Article
Camilo Vega has been around for a while, but somehow we had missed him. The sociologist turned singer/songwriter had been touring around Perú as part of his day job. Yet, as he tells us in his autobiography, he... Read Article
Los Amigos Invisibles have been visible in the Latin American musical realm for some time now. The disco-funk rockers from Caracas have worked hard over the past twenty years to create a distinct blend of sounds and musical rhythms.... Read Article
It takes more than one listen to realise how innocently complex Ulises Hadjis’s new record, Cosas Perdidas, really is. Putting his knowledge of sociology, philosophy and psychoanalysis to work, Hadjis has created a set of 15 intertwined tracks... Read Article
On an extremely sunny Sunday afternoon Alex Anwandter – fresh from his performance at one of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s alternative concert venues – sat down with Sounds and Colours in a quaint café in Santurce. As with... Read Article
It’s the third single of El Retorno, A Banda de Turista’s second album, and as usual, it’s a psychedelic-pop gem.
Valentin y Los Volcanes are fast becoming one of our favourite bands with their irresistible mix of Vaselines indie-pop with the guitar fuzz of Jesus and Mary Chain or My Bloody Valentine. Here is “Piedras al Lago” of... Read Article
