The audience is just a few days into the 2023 and you will currently I feel like I would like some fresh sounds back at my playlist. And you may whom best to help compared to team during the Alt.Latino, Felix Contreras and you will Anamaria Sayre.
CONTRERAS: You are aware, the end of the entire year is definitely typically slow. Not a lot of songs coming-out. Then each year, things initiate jumping actual fast. We introduced five tunes with have has just one to enjoys stuck our ear canal.
SAYRE: Which means this basic song We put is largely from the avoid from 2022. It’s titled “Regalo” from the Caloncho y Bomba Estereo. Caloncho try a beneficial Sonoran singer songwriter having recognized for style of a mix of warm reggae and you may pop music. Meanwhile, Bomba Estereo was big into electro cumbia sound, a good Colombian band. So enjoying the two interact because of it version of warm, boppy (ph) song with synths and you can guitars really feels special.
CONTRERAS: Okay. A person entitled Gregorio Uribe. Now, he or she is an incredibly gifted musician out of Colombia, several other Colombian artist, which is a nation who’s a quite strong accordion customs. That it song is called “Atlas.” I’ll begin the brand new track, and you can I will chat your from birth part once the discover specific fascinating musical some thing taking place.
CONTRERAS: Had a bit of an excellent cumbia beat heading. And the underside it’s got such – what exactly are entitled alegre keyboards. They truly are such as for example African djembes. They’re descendants from African djembes 
that’s mixed during the using this Colombian traditions. Give it a try.
RASCOE: We’ve done this from time to time since the We have come holding Weekend Model, and you may I am finding a big change on the audio you and you will Ana offer.
CONTRERAS: I really don’t need certainly to say it’s a years matter, however,, you are aware, Ana’s a small younger than simply I’m or I am a tiny more than this woman is.
SAYRE: But I believe that is the attractiveness of, you are sure that, what we wish to create toward Alt.Latino was i sorts of discover locations the spot where the variations occurs.
CONTRERAS: Therefore every returns to the fact that it’s nearly impossible to classify just what is actually Latin tunes nowadays once the artisans is increasing you to definitely definition, particularly, everyday, each and every time i hear something new.
SAYRE: Yeah, I believe that this second track that we earned try probably rather exemplar ways by which you to Felix and i also perhaps differ within choices. It’s titled “Hedonismo,” and it’s because of the Puerto Rican rapper Villano Antillano. “Hedonismo” means hedonism inside English. It is a song off of the earliest authoritative album you to she released into e on her taken from Puerto Rico. And most that must would into means that she really openly expresses by herself as a queer transgender lady. And therefore that is a wonderful term of the.
CONTRERAS: Whiplash injury, for sure. This might be men entitled Lucas Santtana. He could be out-of Salvador, Bahia, inside Brazil, that’s a heart off Afro-Brazilian culture and you may audio because country. He’s a vocalist-composer-music producer dude. I was a fan of their combination of the fresh many someone types of Brazil mixed with latest digital audio. His musical are possibly the ancient upcoming or an innovative search at early in the day. Either way, I have already been a large lover. This tune is a wages off a tune by Brazilian master Jorge Ben out of 1974. The fresh term is actually Latin. I’m not actually gonna make an effort to pronounce they. Only enjoy the songs.
RASCOE: Felix Contreras and you can Anamaria Sayre is the co-servers out-of NPR’s Alt.Latino podcast. And in 2023, Alt.Latino try honoring the 13th season.