Editor
Russ Slater is a writer and editor. As well as trying to keep Sounds and Colours in good health, he works for JungleDrums as an Online Editor and TimeOut Sao Paulo where he can regularly be found in the Music section. He also writes and has written for The Wire, PopMatters, Drowned In Sound and Latineos. You can see some of his writing at whatslater.com.
Contributors
Mark Briggs is an aspiring journalist who spent the first four months of 2011 in Santiago. While there he wrote for the local English language newspaper (The Santiago Times) and produced a travel guide (for Essential Guides, available soon on the itunes App store). He has been published in The Big Issue and has written for numerous sports blogs. He began writing for Sounds and Colours in the summer of 2010. Read his Santiago Days column to find out more about his time in Chile.
Amy Cunningham is a freelance writer and and lover of a range of world musical styles, from the traditional folk songs of the Shetland Islands to the resonating dub sounds of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She recently completed a masters in ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths College. He music writing has been featured in many magazines, including Sounds and Colours and Jungle Drums.
Juan Data is a music journalist and DJ, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who currently lives in San Francisco, CA. He has written for a variety of magazines and websites in both English and Spanish. His blog Hard Data is regularly updated with music reviews and news.
Irene Gimeno Espasa is an aspiring journalist from Alicante in Spain. She graduated in Transalation and Interpreting of English, French and Italian in Spain in 2009. She has also started a Journalism course at Edinburgh Napier University, with an Honours degree pending for 2011/2012. She has written articles for Isango!, Edinburgh Napier News, Impulse Magazine and Sounds and Colours. She is currently the Online Editor of Impulse Magazine.
Stephanie Kennedy is our resident Venezuela expert. She works as a journalist for El Proceso – a monthly publication based in Caracas, as a journalist and researcher for COTRAIN (Comunidad de Trabajo e Investigacion) – a centre for documentary film-making in Venezuela, as well as for Sounds and Colours, where she writes about Venezuelan life and politics.
Richard Lim is a tour-de-force when it comes to economics. He sleeps with phrases like “subprime crisis”, “capital inflow” and “defaulted debt” swimming around in his brain. Somehow he puts these words into meaningful sentences that give you an insight into how the world works. That’s when the real magic happens!
Eduardo Pagnoncelli is a Brazilian journalist, currently living in Bristol in the UK. He is now studying a journalism masters at the University of West England (UWE) after graduating from a journalism degree in 2007. In that same year he finished an internship with Brazil’s TV Globo, where he worked for a year and a half. His main areas of interest are sports, music, films and politics. He’s been writing for Sounds and Colours since the summer of 2010.
Mary-Fleur Tordjmann was born in Pau, France. She has written for various magazines and newspapers including major French publications. Beside her passion for writing, she loves photography and languages. She speaks French, English and Spanish fluently and is learning German and Japanese. She has travelled extensively and now lives in Ecuador where she has had the opportunity to volunteer at an NGO and teach English in a prestigious Ecuadorian university. Today, she wants to dedicate herself to taking pictures and telling stories about her travels.
Other Contributors
Anna Andrianova, Eloisa Aquino, Emily Brown, Carlos Centeno, Sarah Coxhill, Tom Crookston, Andreas Exarheas, Gregorio Fontaine, Jaqui Geary, Sarah Green, Ed Hart, Will Hodges, Sam Katterfield, Andrew Lee, Samantha Maine, David Mauro, Wanderson Mosco, Leo Nikolaidis, Sandra Nuñez Portocarrero, Renzo Revelli, Jessica Robins, Gabe Scavuzzo, Gregory Scruggs, Sofia Serbin de Skalon, Kamille Viola, Andrew Wiles, Yao Yu
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