This year’s BIME Bogotá was less about spectacle and more about substance. In between panels, one-on-one conversations, and ...

Summer comes but once a year... and thank heavens for that. Quite apart from my prezidential affairs of state, I've been so ...

No doubt June will prove to be a record-breaker, heat-wise, but the month has also seen some fine new albums surfacing. I've ...

Latin American music in the last decade has swept the world with its infectious rhythms, beautiful lyrics, and melodies that ...

A toxic agro-economy: big ag fuels public health disasters in Argentina September 2023 marked the fourth anniversary of the 2019 explosion in Mercedes, Argentina, of an illegal agrochemical deposit ...

This affecting moment occurred when Fainguelernt was just ten years old – long before she became Ana Frango Elétrico (Ana Electric Chicken), the 23-year-old wunderkind whose 2019 sophomore album ...

Whilst spending several weeks in Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, as part of an exciting research project exploring the socio-political effects of coca cultivation and cocaine ...

The far-north coast of Ecuador has a historical and cultural background that sets it apart from most of the rest of the country, with cultural traditions whose roots stretch across the globe. In ...

I hope y’all had a happy Easter and didn’t overdo it on the chocolate eggs. If you’re based in and around London and looking for ways to dance off any surplus, you should take note of the following: ...

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 ...

Our resident Peruvian experts are up next. Here’s Ana Claudia Bendezú, Diego Casimiro, Valdomiro Valle and Zoila Antonio Benito to select their five recommended Peruvian albums of 2020. To say this ...

The Colombian Pacific Coast meets the Caribbean Coast at the Fox & Firkin, Lewisham, 21 st September The day after in Lewisham sees a very special meeting of two traditional Colombian music genres.