10 albums that confirm 2024 was better than you think
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio We're not going to start arguing at this point in the year with other media outlets that have made a huge effort in creating great selections of the best albums from their country, continent, or...
New albums on Bandcamp: The Unexplained Things/Jaranatambó/Exocet/Cóclea
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Support us by donating via Ko-fi Cover art by Zonagirante Studio 4 discs for very different moods Zonagirante.com audience: Let's do an exercise that's good to do from time to time. Instead of...
2024 in the rearview mirror: The videos that shocked us this year
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio In a world saturated with distractions, music videos continue to resist, like a handful of creative rebels in a digital desert. With smaller budgets, but more ideas, these...
Twenty-four: Our favorite songs of the year
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio Yes, as the title says: These are the songs by Latin American artists that we enjoyed the most in 2024. It's that simple. No market research or measurements here...
Current Tunes (Playlist in Motion): 2026: Are you ready for what's coming?
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Support us by donating via Ko-fi Cover art by Zonagirante Studio (Sarcastic, irregular, and utterly imprecise edition) We've reached the penultimate edition of the year of Tonadas Actuales, that space where we still believe...
New albums on Bandcamp: The Unexplained Things/Jaranatambó/Exocet/Cóclea
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Support us by donating via Ko-fi Cover art by Zonagirante Studio 4 discs for very different moods Zonagirante.com audience: Let's do an exercise that's good to do from time to time. Instead of...
The New Latin American Gringoland: Tulengua and Industrial Plant
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Support us by donating via Ko-fi Cover art by Zonagirante Studio Migration, damn racists, improves ambient sound One of the great riches of a contemporary nation is its multiculturalism. It's about...
Novel Sounds #playlist: The world as a sound laboratory
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio Somewhere on the planet, someone is experimenting with an unlikely rhythm, a texture that didn't exist last week, a mix that knows no boundaries. That's what we're looking for here:...
Of birds and humans: a new compilation of migratory sounds
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Support us by donating via Ko-fi Cover art: Zonagirante Studio We are all migrants In such a complex world, full of political, social, and economic risks, we are all potential migrants. In fact, many...
Rosalía, a universal Mediterranean woman
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos archive Rosalía Lux, the fourth album by Spanish artist Rosalía, has been released. It's obvious that more than one person woke up with their headphones on, ready to write anything and everything about this album. It's understandable that, without having listened to it,...
Lucille Dupin: There's something fresh in the air
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos from the Lucille Dupin archive Between the sea, rebellion, and the desire to reinvent oneself. I celebrate when an artist knows how to combine the tenderness contained in their timeless discourse with the experimentation necessary to renew their sound. I celebrate...
La Vida Bohème: This is no man's land
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos from the La Vida Bohème archive 🌋 The Dream and the Eruption A man dreams for several weeks that Ávila, the emblematic mountain of Caracas, erupts. From this dream emerges an album that unfolds like a sensory journey and...
Happy fi is not just a record label, it's also a supergroup
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos: Happy Fi archive One of the most interesting alternative scenes in Latin America is found in Monterrey, Mexico. Some attribute its strength to its proximity to the US border; others, to the rich folklore of the...
Juan Campodónico, charmer of ears and souls
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos archive Juan Campodónico The art of moving without noise First of all: Uruguayan artist Juan Campodónico knows how to create moving musical material. This Montevideo native, member, creator, and founder of such outstanding musical projects in...
Vondré, splendid explosion (new album)
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos: Vondré archive A breath of fresh air amidst mediocrity And yes: 00:00, the second album by the Mexican band Vondré, is a fantastic record. Let's start with the simplest words of this review to point out that, luckily, in 2025 we have...
Tei shi: Music that matches the times.
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos @danicarobinson A Colombian-Canadian artist with diverse roots If we're going to speak highly of a newly released album, I think we should first introduce the protagonist of such a work and put ourselves in context with her...
Lightning Trip: Believe in noise as your fire
By José Gandour @zonagirante Lightning Trip: the Argentine shoegaze that revives the spirit of the 90s I believe in music that knows how to combine the sharp exclamation of distortion with the tenderness of melodies that don't resort to shouting as an easy way to express...
