South America

Scroll down for more music from across the continent

Peru

Tiger’s Milk Records have put together a groove laden compilation of fantastic bands from the past, here’s a trailer:

 

Watched this concert once on Peruvian TV, mind blowing on a bad hangover:

 

Brazil

 

Crazy jazz cat live at Montreux Jazz Festival in 1979, thanks to Biba and Lu, in Rio, for this one:

 

And thanks to Comrade Simon for the heads up on this fantastic documentary.  H seemingly finds a musical instrument in any object 🙂

 

The Brazil rock scene is great and obsessed over in Rio and Sao Paulo.

Here’s output from a studio in Rio. Warm hospitality from a hard working connoisseur of music, Antonio Padilla Filho. Here’s his band Astro Venga playing by the beach in Ipanema:

 

Colombia 

Here is a British Council trailer about the making of Ondatrópica, a Soundway release. Watch The Making of: Mario Galeano, the Creator and Musical Director of Ondatrópica below, it’s a serialised documentary and an extremely interesting project.

 

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