Much kudos to Zach Phillips who has made available a huge treasure trove of Uruguayan music for free download. Phillips, who is known for his helming of the cult OCR label of experimental music, has long had an... Read Article
I met Dany López around 11am on an Easter Saturday. Despite the sun, the Brazilian autumn brought an icy wind to the trendy neighbourhood of Vila Madalena, in São Paulo. Sitting in front of a French restaurant, we... Read Article
Jorge Drexler is a creatively scientific riddle. The Uruguayan-born, Madrid-based, medical degree-holding songwriter has carved a career out of exploring the boundaries and frontiers between love, science and everything in between. His latest album, Tinta y Tiempo, is... Read Article
While the English version of football may not be ‘coming home’ after all the hype, I’ll go home to my birthplace and start this latest round-up with a London connection. Vasconcelos Sentimento “Movimento” And we’ll kick off, so... Read Article
Idea Vilariño (1920 – 2009) was one of Uruguay’s most important and famous poets. She belonged to the group of intellectuals known as the ‘Generation of ‘45’, which also included the writers Juan Carlos Onetti, Mario Benedetti and... Read Article
César Corujo is a Uruguayan percussionist who goes back and forth across both sides of the La Plata river. Under his musical moniker Xanducero he combines the rhythms and instruments of the folk and African roots styles of... Read Article
In the opening scene of Alelí (2019, dir. Leticia Jorge) a notary reads out loud the details of a sales agreement. A beach house in an indeterminate location is being sold for U$S 134,000 plus one unit in... Read Article
Carolina de Robertis was a winner of the Stonewall Book Award, the Reading Women Award, a Lambda Literary Award and was a Kirkus Prize finalist for her novel Cantoras. She has translated Latin American and Spanish literature into... Read Article
As a lawyer in training myself, I might already try not to take portrayals of legal professionals too seriously. Given Mercedes Rosende’s Crocodile Tears is a black-comedy and a self-deprecating, partial critique of the police institution and of... Read Article
More than any other year, it definitely feels as if there has been a shift in terms of the types of albums being reissued from Latin America. Sure, there are still plenty of tropical Colombian albums and 70s... Read Article
This article was originally published by Sounds and Colours’s partner, Latin America Bureau. You can read the original here. It has been a difficult year for film, especially cinema releases but, as the old entertainment saying goes, ‘the show must... Read Article
Montevideo-born Camila Domingue, who records as Lila Tirando a Violeta, made waves in the club scene after creating heavily-sampled vaporwave tracks influenced by ambient and hardstyle, and performing at pride parades as one half of pop duo A.M.I.G.A,... Read Article
