Danny Wiser
URUGUAY: A Contraluz - La Vela Puerca
Demonstrating ingenuity and heart throughout the album, placing themselves deservedly alongside some of Latin America’s greatest...
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Danny Wiser
- Feb 17, 2022
- 4 min
PERU: Mambo! - Yma Sumac
Not many albums can pull of an exclamation mark in their name, this one however most certainly deserves the attention it implies The...
Danny Wiser
- Feb 2, 2022
- 3 min
MEXICO: El Nervio Del Volcan - Caifanes
A respect for their nation's ancestral and recent past are all evident within Caifanes' music, but they bring an artistic edge to their...
Joel Dwek
- Jan 21, 2022
- 3 min
HONDURAS: Hablo Español - Polache
Pleasant guitar pop with a bit of an edge, Polache's debut album shows us why he is well-regarded in his home nation To most Western...
Danny Wiser
- Nov 11, 2021
- 4 min
CHILE: Manifiesto - Victor Jara
True musical revolutionaries are few and far between, put your headphones in shut your eyes and marvel in the beauty of this legend’s...
Joel Dwek
- Sep 2, 2021
- 3 min
ECUADOR: Larutanatural - Cementerio De Elefantes
Alternative rock with a few fun twists - but does it impress? Listening to this album when sitting down in front of a blank Word document...
Joel Dwek
- Jul 21, 2021
- 4 min
NICARAGUA: Tuyo Lo Que Soy - Salvador Cardenal Barquero
The first and only solo studio album from one of Nicaragua's proudest sons, catchy tunes and bittersweet lyricism are on full display...
Danny Wiser
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
EL SALVADOR: Ay Mi Pueblo - Los Hermanos Flores
Family unity and musical talent puts El Salvador in a well-deserved positive light El Salvador recently hit the headlines for becoming...
Joel Dwek & Danny Wiser
- Feb 16, 2021
- 11 min
Interview: Break It All (Rompan Todo) - Nicolas Entel
Documentary filmmaker Nicolas Entel joined us to discuss his ground-breaking new Netflix docuseries Rompan Todo, in which he aims to...
Joel Dwek
- Feb 5, 2021
- 3 min
COSTA RICA: Sabor en un Tiempo Cruel - Ojo de Buey
Successfully fusing three seemingly disparate genres, Ojo de Buey create a perfect chilled-out album whilst showing off the riches of...
Joel Dwek
- Jan 17, 2021
- 4 min
VENEZUELA: Loé Loá - Betsayda Machado & La Parranda El Clavo
Machado's powerful voice shines in this celebration of Afro-Venezuelan culture Before we start reviewing the album properly, we must...
Joel Dwek
- Dec 23, 2020
- 3 min
COLOMBIA: Rumbo a Tierra - Systema Solar
An album with a twist as the Colombians confront issues of feminism and environmentalism on the dancefloor This album by Colombian...
Joel Dwek & Danny Wiser
- Dec 16, 2020
- 9 min
Interview: IV - Antonio Vergara
Ecuadorian rock singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, award-winning sound engineer, former lawyer, and academic Antonio Vergara spoke...
Danny Wiser
- Nov 29, 2020
- 3 min
PARAGUAY: Guantanamera - Los Tres Paraguayos
Dubbed the ‘ambassadors of Paraguayan music’, Los Tres Paraguayos certainly succeed in showcasing Paraguay’s most special instrument Like...
Joel Dwek
- Nov 18, 2020
- 3 min
ARGENTINA: Churupaca - Churupaca
An ambitious, if not entirely successful set of Latin-Balkan fusion music that alternately delights and frustrates Most often here at...
Danny Wiser
- Nov 1, 2020
- 5 min
VENEZUELA: Repeat After Me - Los Amigos Invisibles
The sextet embrace the musician's law - "If it feels good, do it!" in this odyssey of funk If one is, for example, to suffer a...
Joel Dwek & Danny Wiser
- Oct 21, 2020
- 6 min
Interview: Carlos Toledo from Cápsicum Orquesta
Mexican songwriter and bassist Carlos Toledo joined us to tell us about his band's latest album Prueba El Sabor, the salsa scene in...
Danny Wiser
- Sep 30, 2020
- 4 min
ARGENTINA: Canción Animal- Soda Stereo
The rock trio's iconic record reverberates across Latin America, jam-packed with raw and heartfelt emotion When reading the likes of...
Joel Dwek
- Sep 14, 2020
- 3 min
BRAZIL/USA: Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays - Sammy Davis, Jr & Laurindo Almeida
Beautiful singing and gorgeous acoustic guitar playing - what more do you need? What do we mean when we pick an album as album of the...
Danny Wiser
- Aug 30, 2020
- 4 min
ECUADOR/FRANCE: Siku - Nicola Cruz
This electronic album, whilst fun and upbeat, could also be enjoyed as an ethnographic tour of the spiritual hotspots of planet Earth The...
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