I spoke to Nella Rojas Mata while she was visiting Caracas, Venezuela. She made time for our meeting by stepping away from a small gathering. Her family was bidding goodbye to a cousin who was leaving Venezuela, yet another... Read Article
Soul Jazz Records have announced a second volume in their Venezuela 70 series. As with the first volume, it will be a collection of some of Venezuela’s maverick musicians of the 1970s, musicians who looked deep within Latin... Read Article
In advance of their Musica Infinita: New Venezuelan Music night in London, Miguel Colmenares of Colectivo Futuro has put together this rather excellent mixtape of Venezuelan music that has been an inspiration for the collective and the bands,... Read Article
La Confianza Ciega is a kaleidoscopic record. That was the overpowering feeling that I had listening to the new offering from Venezuelan artist Algodón Egipcio. It is an ever-moving artwork that is complex in its rhythms, surprising in... Read Article
It starts in a madcap whirl of old-school R&B and London gospel, intertwined with spiralling Latin brass and percussion. And by the time it comes to an end, nine songs later, the new album from Venezuelan artist Edwin... Read Article
We have to admit that if there’s one area we really need to brush up on here at Sounds and Colours it is rare Venezuelan rock. Thankfully, with the release of a new record on Soul Jazz Records that... Read Article
After two successful EPs, Ecos Del Tercer Mundo Vol. 1 from 2011 and Vol. 2 from 2012, the Venezuelan electronic experimentalists La Gallera Social Club dug deep into their folkloric roots to make their latest release, Caribe. On this album, recorded... Read Article
Family Atlantica completely floored us when they released their debut album a few years ago. Named simply Family Atlantica it was a rhythmic, poetic and slightly cosmic journey across the Atlantic, from Venezuela to the UK, on to... Read Article
French-Venezuelan artist La Chica takes on Latin American traditional sounds and makes it her own with a subtle electronic pop twist. In her new video, “Oasis”, she uses French composers Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Camille Saint-Saëns’ The Carnival of... Read Article
MPeach is a Latina del futuro, a Latin of the future, as she titles one of her latest tracks. The future however feels like a question, about what once was and what still is Latin America today. Maybe... Read Article
There can be little doubt that Algodón Egipcio is one of the most inventive producers in Latin America. The Caracas-born musician has constantly evolved since first emerging as half of Jovenes y Sexys, following that much-loved group with... Read Article
Monsalve y Los Forajidos, headed up by Raúl Monsalve is a Venezuelan group who specialise in taking the African roots of American music from their country and elsewhere, and mixing them to create a soulful and funky afrobeat... Read Article
