Tag: South America

March 24, 2014
February 24, 2014
February 17, 2014
January 27, 2014

Today’s edition features music from Mali, Benin, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Peru, Colombia, Algeria, Vietnam, Guinea and Canada. Enjoy sounds from around the world.

January 10, 2014

Juaneco y su Combo turned Peruvian music on its head when they broke from tradition and replaced their acoustic instruments with electric ones in 1970. Their first recordings remain the earliest example of cumbia selvática or cumbia amazónica.