Jamz Supernova explores Colombia’s Barranquilla Carnival 2024 in documentary + playlist

I’m ecstatic that Jamz decided to film her time in Colombia, and I hope this documentation becomes a habit from the broadcaster, whose sense of wonder is infectious.

Come with Broadcaster & DJ Jamz Supernova to experience Colombia’s Barranquilla Carnival. Along the way, you’ll meet cultural thinkers, collectives & Picoteras (DJ’s) who share with Jamz the traditions, complexities and what Carnival means to them.

For this, she talks to Ángel Unfried about the social climate change during carnival, Rubiel Badillo about the magnificence of the carrozas that float along the streets, Zulu Padilla about jumping to a new dimension and enabling transformation, student and conservationist of Latin American and African music Don Alirio, Sidney Reyes Reyes on the reception of la musica africana, soundsytem pioneer of El Son Africano Norma Zuñiga and the godfather of champeta, Arbel Carbano.

Thank you Jamz, my mum would have adored this.

Apologies if a Spotify playlist already exists, but I’ve put this one together from songs played in the documentary and credited at the end.