by Address | June 3, 2015 | Chronicles
By José Gandour @gandour The prestigious record label Realworld, owned by British musician Peter Gabriel, has launched a remix competition for "Curura," a well-known song by Colombian artist Totó la Momposina. The organizers' explanation...
by Address | June 2, 2015 | Records, lightning and thunderbolts
By José Gandour @gandour The Peruvian band Ni voz ni voto, with twenty-one years of history, reaches its fifth album and continues to battle the old demons of an underdeveloped market and the foolish prejudices that justify all the...
by Address | June 1, 2015 | Records, lightning and thunderbolts
By José Gandour @gandour About twenty years ago, several American artists were asked how they imagined the music of the 21st century, and the answers were quite varied. Some envisioned an environment filled with machines and new, supersonic noises....
by Address | May 27, 2015 | Records, lightning and thunderbolts
By José Gandour @gandour Certain soloists exude a sense of loneliness and stubbornness. They may be surrounded by many instrumentalists who complement their work, but it's clear that amidst the complexity of the sound, their inner world and their need to express themselves shine through...
by Address | May 26, 2015 | Records, lightning and thunderbolts
By José Gandour @gandour If you visit this trio's Facebook page, you'll find a strange denial: "SEGBA is not Rock." And that's where the confusion begins, where that absurd compulsion that some music commentators (if not all of us) have to...