Sounds and Colours

29/03/2024

Belén López Peiró’s courageous debut novel is a crystal-clear denunciation of abuse.

reviews ’s Why Did You Come Back Every Summer, tightly translated by and published in English with 2 April

15/03/2024

PREMIÈRE: Verito Asprilla + Li Saumet Celebrate Femininity on ‘Apoteósica’

Rapidly rising Tumaco star joins forces with one of the most recognised female powerhouses in Colombian music today, , on new release “Apoteósica”.

Don’t miss the premiere of this track on soundsandcolours.com with words by

08/03/2024

Maite Alberdi may be about to make history

Maite Alberdi is an Academy Award nominee. Given that of the nearly 14,000 Oscar nominees since 1929, only 17% were women, Alberdi is amongst a select group.

01/03/2024

Get involved!

Less than 2 weeks to go until the crowdfunding campaign for my forthcoming documentary comes to an end.

I've made a little video for the campaign.

Feel free to share it with anyone that might be interested and please support the campaign if you can.

To watch the video see the link in comments.

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MOTHER, COUNTRY (Documentary Crowdfunding Campaign Video)

A film by Pablo Navarrete for Alborada Films

Documentary // Chile, UK // 2024 // Spanish/English // 91'

26/02/2024

One of our regular contributors, Maly Polotto, needs your help. She had her mobility bike stolen and is now in desperate need of a replacement!

Help! Every euro counts!!!!! And share, please!! My name is Maly Polott… Maria Lydia Polotto needs your support for Help to replace my mobility bike!!!!!!

01/02/2024

“This is a medium that’s still very male-oriented, and I’m not only talking about the artists but also the institutions, the curators, the spaces where Joropo moves commercially here. Joropo has given me the possibility of showing another vision and another way of making music in the region.”

In this fascinating interview, speaks to singer and band leader of , Colombia’s game-changing joropo band doing things their own way and celebrating the genre’s Afro and Indigenous roots.

23/01/2024

Carpentier scribbled the plot of a new historical fiction, later to become Explosion in a Cathedral, on a restaurant menu before leaving the island of Guadeloupe in the 1950s.

The novel has long been considered the Cuban writer’s most impressive work.

A new translation of this political critique, published by Penguin Classics, could not come at a better time. The themes of corruption, power abuse, and discrimination seem just as relevant now as they did for the culprits of revolutions two hundred years ago.

Review of Adrian Nathan West’s translation Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier, from .tucker for S&C

08/12/2023

Argentine mystery TRENQUE LAUQUEN has been voted Best Film of 2023 by the prestigious French film magazine She is the first Latin American woman to have made the top spot in the magazine's 70-year history.

Trenque Lauquen, the second solo work (and third feature after Dog Lady, co-directed with Verónica Llinás in 2015) from Argentine director Laura Citarella, is

23/11/2023

Following a preview BFI London Film Festival last month, new thriller ’Lost in the Night’ arrives in the UK this week. Jessica Wax-Edwards caught up with the Director:

Lost in the Night (Perdidos en la noche, 2023) is the fifth feature from Mexican director Amat Escalante. The story follows Emiliano, a young

13/11/2023

Gearing up for some stellar Latin music acts this week:
Weds 15 Nov 🇧🇷
Thurs 16 Nov

Fri 17 Nov 🇻🇪

&Sun 19 Nov 🇦🇷
in their debut London show -find out more at .soundsandcolours.com

04/10/2023

The kicks off today with a fantastic line-up of Latin American films this year.
First up is the classic 'Macario' (1960), the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award. Sharp observations of inequality, avarice and morality in this unsentimental vision of peasant life and a Faustian pact set against the backdrop of celebrations.

11/09/2023

“Memory is not a casual exercise. It’s not a form of dialogue. It’s more of an intimate feeling that permeates everything you do”. interviews Patricio Guzmán on 50th anniversary of the Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile.

His film series ‘Dreaming of Utopia: 50 Years of Revolutionary Hope and Memory’ includes screenings of new 4K restorations of his films The First Year and The Battle of Chile, as well as special screenings of his recent films like Nostalgia for the Light, The Pearl Button, The Cordillera of Dreams and My Imaginary Country. The screenings began on Friday, September 8 at Anthology Film Archives, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the IFC Center in New York City.

04/08/2023

It's Bandcamp Friday and we have a few copies of our Hidden Waters double vinyl for sale. This original tracklisting will never be pressed again!

23 track album

18/07/2023

Head to our site (link in bio) to read our interview w , whose , , is up for best at next month’s .

17/07/2023

We spoke to on their new show 'Usos y costumbres' Studio Voltaire in London. Runs until 10 September

Gabriel Chaile is an artist from San Miguel de Tucumán, northwest Argentina, also the birthplace of folk legend and activist, Mercedes Sosa.  Like Sosa

02/07/2023

On October 7th 2016 Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was given the Nobel Peace Prize “for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than

28/06/2023

of got nostalgic for us in this interview with and of legendary alternative Colombian band, , pioneers in creating rock music with a Colombian identity who played an important role in the rock en español movement of the early ‘90s.

For 30 years they have been reinventing themselves – and the music scene in Latin America. The duo will play on July 6 as part of their European tour.

https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/colombia/aterciopelados-legendary-alternative-colombia-london-73686/

18/05/2023

The 2nd ECHOES Film Festival starts this week and runs 19-21 May Ica London Featuring 18 films representing ethnic groups from across Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and Argentina.
The festival is curated by Indigenous filmmakers, celebrating the rich diversity and versatility of storytelling, amidst the ongoing climate emergency and heightened threats to Indigenous rights.
Check out the trailer:

Echoes Indigenous Film Festival returns to the ICA in London (19-21 May, 2023) for its second and extended edition, showcasing 18 films from 13 ethnic group...

15/05/2023

Continuing their exploration of the voice and duality, Las Añez are back with their fourth full-length record, Paralelas, which ventures closer to the mainstream but digests it through the twins’ ever curious ears and the creativity of their eclectic set of collaborators.




Review by up on S&C.com

20/04/2023

S&C editors’ picks for 23:

The iconic Afro-Peruvian national treasure, “for her first London show in many years.”

The breathtaking “exploring Afro-Peruvian rhythms in whole new sonic territories.”

The evolving y La Evolución: “Signed, sealed, delivered; I’m hers.”

The q***r, revivalist & Vientos: “your best chance of seeing what is a transformative vision of British-Latin folk song.”

And the energetic BritishColombian collective , “cross-cultural musical conversation at its coolest.”



Full piece: https://soundsandcolours.com/region/london/la-linea-23-what-were-looking-forward-to-at-this-years-festival-in-london%EF%BF%BC-73261/

07/04/2023

“I worried that daily life perhaps wasn’t enough [to make a film out of], but it is. That’s what I learned.” Director Tatiana Huezo’s words about her stunning, poetic new doc, El eco.

El Eco in Chignahuapan, Puebla, is a magical place at 3,000 metres above sea level where life is dictated by the seasons: harvests, sun, storms and breeding cycles. El Eco has tall creaking pines, lakes like mirrors, sun that leathers the skin and mist that covers everything from sight. In Huezo’s film we view El Eco through the eyes of its younger generations: children and adolescents learning what it means to grow up and discover the adult world, who will soon be responsible for looking after the land, the animals, the crops and each other.

Full review by on soundsandcolours.com

06/04/2023

A special new track from asks for nothing in return. “Canción de Autosuperación No.1” (Self-improvement –or maybe Getting Over Yourself– No.1) is a refreshing, honest and laid-back personal mantra about not crushing under the pressure of social media and the obligation to produce, instead plucking a classical guitar and giving yourself over to the grace of falling asleep in a hammock.

Find out more on soundsandcolours.com

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28/03/2023

Sounds and Colours spoke to Gabriela Carrizo, co-founder of taboo-trouncing dance theatre troupe Peeping Tom ahead of her new show Sadler's Wells next month for Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT)

The co-founder of dance company Peeping Tom talks magical realism, cinematic influences and nostalgia in her new show La Ruta coming to Sadler’s Wells this

25/03/2023

In UK cinemas this week, two films from Chilean women directors.

Francisca Alegría's THE COW WHO SANG A SONG INTO THE FUTURE and Manuela Martelli's 1976.

Premiering at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last year: Chilean drama 1976 from New Wave Films is the feature directing debut of actress Manuela Martelli, and set during the years of the Augustus Pinochet regime. Aline Küppenheim stars as a woman who is asked by a priest to shelter a young man who is a dissident. The UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival saw 1976 win the Sutherland Award for best first feature.

Francisca Alegría's THE COW WHO SANG A SONG INTO THE FUTURE from Sovereign Film Distribution blends elements of magical realism, sci fi and fantasy to delve into deep family wounds and deliver a potent environmental message. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the last Sundance Film Festival and Alegría has since been named as a Sundance Institute Fellow for 2023.

22/03/2023

Latin America’s Q***r Stars Take Centre Stage On Lollapalooza’s South America Circuit - LGBTQ+ stars use platform to promote tolerance and unity at eleventh edition in Chile. Words photos

11/03/2023

Bassy strings, heart-twanging guitars, emotional lyrics tinged with English and the young, yet weathered voice of Yahritza make this Mexican-American trio at once familiar and exciting. TikTok has launched them to stardom, but their roots are firmly set in family and ranchera tradition.

are on the rise.

for S&C

09/03/2023

From an intimate study of a rural Mexican community, to a genre-bending Chilean fable with futuristic elements, a young woman’s disappearance in Argentina

18/01/2023

is one of Argentina's leading contemporary directors, known for his hard-hitting social dramas. We spoke with him about his latest film THE SUBSTITUTE (El suplente) and the hard choices teachers have to make when deciding how far they can get involved to help their students. THE SUBSTITUTE will be in UK cinemas from Friday Jan 20th Sovereign Film Distribution

Diego Lerman is one of Argentina’s foremost contemporary directors, known for films that grapple with Argentina’s social problems and class tensions. For his

11/01/2023

won big at the Golden Globes last night (as well as winning Best Film on the Sounds and Colours poll)

The acclaimed Indian blockbuster did, however, win Best Song earlier in the evening.

08/01/2023

Banish those January blues with our Best Films of 2022. Head over to our site to check out the full list of Latin American films.