It is laborious to imagine it is already June. There’ve been so many nice new releases and so many thrilling new artists that it was, as all the time, very troublesome for Anamaria Sayre and I to decide on simply six artists to function.
In a yr when each Unhealthy Bunny and Natalia Lafourcad — two pillars of Latin music — each made superb albums, Ana and I discovered ourselves digging deep into indie and barely below-the-radar artists who additionally made fascinating music over the past six months.
We begin this week by additionally paying attention to the truth that music doesn’t exist in a vacuum. We chat somewhat about how world occasions have had an impression on a few of the of us who play Latin music and a few of you common listeners to Alt.Latino.
Heaps to soak up and, as all the time, a number of music to find.
Artists and songs featured on this episode:
- Damaris Bojor, “No es regular”
- Paloma Morphy, “(sola)”
- Camila Meza, “Transmutación”
- Queralt Lahoz, “YNEPN” and “UnPOCO+”
- Adrian Quesada, “No Juego (with Angélica Garcia)”
- rusowsky, “Johnny Glamour” and “BBY ROMEO”
Credit
Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and combined by Simon Rentner. Our challenge supervisor is Grace Chung. NPR Music’s government producer is Suraya Mohamed.
