The photograph shows the hero of this tale, Roger Glenn, sometime in the late 1940s when he was five or six, learning to play ...

Sounds and Colours Brazil is a new book and CD focused on Brazilian music and culture. With interest in Brazil set to reach fever pitch make sure you get the inside scoop on what makes the country ...

Accompanied by highly percussive drumming, the ritualistic ceremonies of the Afro-Brazilian candomblé religion have distinctly shaped the musical soundscape of ...

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 ...

Invented by Harold Rhodes in the recent era, digital piano is an alternative to the acoustic counterpart with almost the same construction and working method. Also known as electronic piano, the best ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Led by Bogotá-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Jacobo Polanía, Mente Orgánica returns with Pukllay, a new studio album released via Buenos Aires imprint Fértil Discos: one of the Southern Cone ...

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 ...

They began painting on walls as children — undesired graffiti makers. Twenty years later they have acquired university degrees and major commissions for public art from the city of Valparaiso. Sammy ...

For anyone interested in learning more about the Pinochet years in Chile, there are a whole host of documentaries, spanning the early stages of the dictatorship to the modern day, which dissect and ...