Venezuela

By Sarah Jacobs 02 November, 2020

If you’re based in the US and are interested in Latin American cinema, you’ll be spoiled for choice at this... Read Article

By Russ Slater 30 October, 2020

A new compilation, Colór de Tropico, from El Palmas Music collects together eight rare Venezuelan grooves from the 60s and... Read Article

By Mark Sampson 26 October, 2020

Regular visitors to this site may remember Ellen Gordon’s interview with Raúl Monsalve prior to the band’s appearance at the... Read Article

By Russ Slater 22 October, 2020

Bichos, the new album from Raul Monsalve y Los Forajidos is a tour de force of Afro-Latin grooves, recalling the... Read Article

By Rebecca Wilson 19 October, 2020

There’s still time to catch a number of short films from Indigenous Latin American filmmakers at Native Spirit Festival: the... Read Article

By Rennea Couttenye 21 April, 2020

On April 16th, a great music video, officially premiered. “Punto y Seguimos” is the first composition from an album called... Read Article

By Russ Slater 07 February, 2020

Next week El Palmas Music will release Tropical Cosmic Sounds From Space, a new compilation of music made by Venezuelan... Read Article

By Salvatore Maldera 15 January, 2020

This is a recent conversation with Angel Rada, the Venezuelan wizard of Tropical Sounds from Space, celebrating the release of... Read Article

By Russ Slater 19 December, 2019

Barcelona-based label Las Palmas Music, fresh from releasing the first album by Daniel Grau in over 30 years are now... Read Article

By Russ Slater 31 October, 2019

I’d been wanting to speak to Devendra Banhart for many years about his Latin American roots – Banhart’s mother is... Read Article

By Gina Vergel 27 September, 2019

September has brought us many new tunes by artists we dig and this edition of ‘On our Radar’ is all... Read Article

By Russ Slater 09 July, 2019

An astounding release, Loé Loá – Rural Recordings Under The Mango Tree, placed #3 in our Best Albums of 2017,... Read Article