Joao Maraschin is a Brazilian-born designer based in the UK. His work focuses on social design and environmental accountability. He won the Graduate Award at Drapers Sustainable Fashion Awards on completing his MA in Fashion Design, an acknowledgement of... Read Article
La Banda Chuska are re-imagining the vintage sounds of Peru through the lens of their New York home, via diverse backgrounds, taking inspiration from the twangy surf music of 1960s Peru (Los Belkings, Los Siderals) as well as... Read Article
Forever famous for its canal and straw hats, Panama could be creating some kind of drumming legacy: Billy Cobham, of course, and now Daniel Villareal, a celebrated sticks-man on the Chicago jazz and Latin scenes who was born... Read Article
As has become the norm for Criolo, he surprise dropped his latest album, Sobre Viver, earlier this month. Its working title was “Diário do Kaos” (“Diary of Chaos”) which gives some inkling of the album’s subject material. It... Read Article
Marisa Monte is back on the road. She’s currently promoting her most recent album, Portas, a collection of songs which felt like a much needed gentle breeze on a sunny day during the hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic.... Read Article
Colombia’s Meridian Brothers are up to their usual tricks with a delirious salsa pastiche. For their latest album they have partnered up with El Grupo Renacimiento, a supposedly-legendary salsa dura outfit from the 70s known for their “b-class... Read Article
“Mi Niña” starts off Hi-NRG Eurodisco, but listen to that drum beat and the Spanish vocals and it’s clear there’s something else going on. Emanating from Lithuania, the members of Planeta Polar previously went under the moniker of... Read Article
Salut Les Cubains captures post-revolution Cuba through Agnès Varda’s curious and optimistic lens. Made up of 1800 photographs taken on a trip to Cuba in 1963, this film-photo-essay shows a moment four years after the revolution in which... Read Article
Seven dogs (Siete perros) is a small story, which narrates a moment in Ernesto’s life. Ernesto is an old man, he lives alone in Córdoba City, in a messy and dirty apartment, he frequently attends his dialysis sessions and has... Read Article
Alia Trabucco Zerán’s second book, When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold does exactly what it says on the tin, and tells the story of four women who committed, or were implicit in, four horrific murders during four different... Read Article
From magical realism and first-person fever dream-like novels to fascinating true crime non-fiction, these are five of the best books written by female Latin American Authors that have been published in recent months. Our recommendations include the new... Read Article
New exhibition at Bogota’s Centro de Memoria, Paz y Reconciliacion opens with film about resistance.‘Resisto, luego existo’, the new exhibition at Bogota’s Centro de Memoria, Paz y Reconciliacion opens to the public with documentaries about centres of resistance... Read Article
The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya in Guatemala continues despite threats and violence. In Central America, as in many other parts of the world today, communities are being thrust into life and death struggles up against powerful interests... Read Article
With La Linea returning to the London live music scene it does feel like things may finally be resuming some form of normality. Cancelled in 2020 right after the pandemic struck, La Linea has had to wait for... Read Article
The beginning of 2022 was dealt a crummy hand this past January when the Omicron variant took hold of the Big Apple and most live events were canceled out of caution. Among those making the pivot from live... Read Article
