When the world went into lockdown during the Covid panic of 2020, Vanessa Forero was in Colombia, visiting the mountain village of Minca in the north-east of the country. Back home, she composes music for the advertising industry and had just put in an offer on a flat in Brighton but, she explains via video call from South America, “because this is a very sacred mountain and the indigenous people at the top are very protected, there’s only one road into the village, and they closed it”.
Brian Luebben received some voice notes from his Airbnb host while he was staying in Florianópolis, Brazil, warning him that monkeys could climb through the window if he didn't shut them properly.