Have you ever felt a song speaking straight to your heart, like it understands daily life, hopes, and shared dreams?

2025 will be remembered as the year Brazilian music stopped asking for permission and simply took over. Sertanejo tracks ...

In cinema, every detail matters. Costumes, colors, and carefully chosen props often communicate as much as dialogue, ...

Brazil has long been one of the most passionate and influential regions in Counter-Strike. From legendary Major victories to ...

Sounds and Colours is a website, print publication and record label dedicated to the culture and creativity of Latin American and the Caribbean. Run by a team of passionate writers and researchers our ...

Ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome please, from Los Angeles… LA LOM!

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 day after in Lewisham sees a very special meeting of two traditional Colombian music genres. Representing the Pacific coast will be the marimba sounds of Agrupación Patacoré all the way from ...

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 ...

“Starting in the 1960s vinyl records began arriving from different places to the turntables of Monterrey’s sonideros. A cultural phenomenon was born, a mixture of identities and methods. Broadcasting ...

It’s a sweaty Sunday evening in São Paulo, Brazil. The karaoke club I’m in plays carnival classics and MPB hits from today. That, I expected. But after every three or four songs, my ears perk up to a ...

Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession and science… contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet in this collection of short stories from Bolivia. In ‘Kindred Deer’, the last of six short stories that ...