El Duende is the latest project from Bomba Estereo’s Simón Mejía, which sees him working alongside Lucas Silva of Palenque Records, the highly esteemed record label focused on Afro-Colombian music. What started as an EP of remixes of... Read Article
We are so happy to introduce you to TIMPANA, the latest signing to our record label. It’s fair to say that we were blown away when we were first introduced to this album. It seemed to tie together... Read Article
As Chile gets ready to vote on either accepting or declining a new political constitution, natural resources, human rights and better regional representation are all on our mind. That’s why we start this new selection of the most... Read Article
A musician who has worked with artists like Kinética, Electrodomésticos and Rubio, amongst others, Andrés Abarzúa has slowly crafted a sound that ranges from intelligent pop to experimental music and ambient electronics. On his debut solo album, Noviembre,... Read Article
Gilberto Gil is a musician and songwriter who has been a beacon of light in Brazilian culture for nearly sixty years. Amongst the many feats of his long-lasting career, he was one of the main creators of the... Read Article
In our second instalment of Nunca Tarde, a round-up of great albums from the past couple of months, we’ve got some essential new releases from Brazil, Peru, Mexico and the wonderful Latin American diaspora. No quality album is... Read Article
For the uninitiated Song Exploder is a podcast where the host (and its creator) Hrishikesh Hirway dissects one song from an artist, letting the artist describe themselves how the song was written and produced. Having recently released its... Read Article
Transamazonia (2020) is a Brazilian documentary about the lives of two trans people, Melissa and Marcelly, who both live in different parts of the Trans-Amazonian Highway. The unfinished highway, which is still being built – and destroyed – according... Read Article
Walter Salles, one of Latin America’s most renowned film-makers and producers, visited the UK last week to receive an Honorary Degree from the University of Reading and attend a two-day symposium on his work. During the event, the... Read Article
“You can feel yourself inside the river.” Irene Aritsitizábal tells me, as I look up into an enormous piece of patterned silk curling like a serpent from the high ceiling. The light catches the material, highlighting its earthy... Read Article
Clara Pinto is a fashion and textile designer from Argentina. She creates fabrics with unusual materials such as leftover bones, animal hair and degradable bio-plastics. After completing her training in Buenos Aires, she immediately moved to London where... Read Article
The favela community of Vale Encantado in Rio de Janeiro are using a biosystem for sewage treatment and solar panels to make their neighbourhood economically and environmentally self-sufficient, while facing down a long-term threat of eviction. Nestled in... Read Article
This article was first published on Foreign Policy in Focus and republished courtesty of Latin American Bureau. You can read the original here. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This... Read Article
It is so refreshing when artists and producers you’ve written about in the past join forces to gift us something new and different. That’s exactly what Captain Planet has done by getting in the musical kitchen with Brooklyn-via-Brazil’s... 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
