by Address | June 4, 2015 | Records, lightning and thunderbolts, Videos
By José Gandour @gandour I once sat down with Loko Kuerdo, a well-known figure in Colombian hip hop, to talk about music. I told him that his voice reminded me of Tom Waits, that extraordinary American artist whose words carried the weight of his history....
by Address | June 4, 2015 | Videos
By José Gandour @gandour Oh'laville has managed to forge its own path. Their folk rock has quickly taken shape and gained ground in the complex Colombian music scene. The Bogota rock audience isn't very accustomed to the power of the instrument...
by Address | June 3, 2015 | lightning and thunderbolts
By José Gandour @gandour Is there such a thing as "gay aesthetics"? Can a style be labeled that way? Wouldn't that be a discriminatory act, a violent and fascist provocation? These questions arise when we have artists like (My Name Is) Sebastian,...
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....
