On our YouTube channels you may watch many video's on our activities, parts of our documentaries on Latin American culture, and music clips from Merusa Records artists.

Visit www.youtube.com/user/bartolomesincasas and www.youtube.com/user/bobbieramone.

All Merusa Records CDs are now available for digital download from your favorite download store!

Gypsy music stars La Manouche have released their second CD! Traditional Sinti and Romany music arranged in their own unique style, and with many guest musicians, reflecting the passion of the wandering gypsy life.

See www.merusa-records.com/la-manouche-ay-chavale.

The article "Bembé en el batey, Contramaestre: buscando el corazón musical de Cuba" by Fundación Interchange's Bart Duijsens has been published in the online Cuban magazine Revista Batey. It portrays the musical scene in a typical Cuban country town and offers an account about the challenges to produce a recording in Cuba.
Read it here

On saturday september 24, 2011 the third edition of the 'Onder de Stuwwal' world music festival tooko place at the Kulturhus in Beek (The Netherlands). A day of art and music, with son, cumbia, tango, gypsy-jazz, arabicana, afro-groove and many other exciting styles.

Acts included: the Manito Road Show (Europe/Latin America), Mate (Chile/Venezuela), Leticia’s “One Woman Latin Band”, African Vibes (West-Africa), Trio Son Cubano (Cuba/The Netherlands), FP Barrio Nuevo (Colombia) and No Blues (The Netherlands/Palestine).

For more info see: Onder de Stuwwal 2011

Claudia y Manito have released their first CD - Arpamor on Merusa Records. Boleros, tangos, joropos and other genres from Argentine, Paraguay and Venezuela. Claudia's Paraguayan harp and sultry voice and Manito's gypsy-infused guitar evoke that bygone golden age of latin music.

Claudia y Manito - Arpamor (Merusa Records website)

Merusa Records is the record label of Fundación Interchange. We have already released more than twenty CDs of hidden treasures from around the world, covering Latin-American, Caribbean, and European roots music, as well as bold experiments in world music. Now finally a website dedicated to Merusa Records is online. On the site you can also order our CDs.

www.merusa-records.com

Juan Mesa, from Gomera, the Canary Islands, has released Garajonay, a beautiful CD mixing blues, reggae and pop with his Canarian roots. Relaxed, humorous and invigorating.

Juan Mesa - Garajonay (Merusa Records website)

Fundación Interchange has contributed a quite exhaustive multi-media presentation on Afro-Venezuelan music for LAMECA (La Médiathèque Caraïbe), the French-Guadeloupean music encyclopedia. Entitled 'Afrovenezuelan music' (La Musique Afro-Vénézuelienne), this publication consists of text, music, videos and photographs.

www.lameca.org/dossiers/afro_venezuelan_music/eng/

With support from Fundación Interchange the Cuban online magazine Batey has been launched. Revista Batey is dedicated to the anthropology of Cuba. The commitment of Fundación Interchange to Batey is the result of our long-standing involvement with the University of La Laguna (Tenerife) and the University of Oriente (Cuba), and the need to create a meeting point on Cuban affairs from a social scientific perspective on the worldwide web.

www.revista-batey.com

Merusa Records and Fundación Interchange are proud to announce the release of 'diver-city', the new CD by Mate, the All Star band led by the Chilean guitarist and composer Marco Carillo Coppia.

Mate - Diver-city (Merusa Records website)