Alt.Latino: New Music + Violeta Parra

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This week Alt.Latino hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre balance their passion for new discoveries with reissued music from an iconic Latin American songwriter.

Featured artists and songs:

• Ezra Collective, "Body Language" (feat. Sasha Keable)

• Patti LaBelle, "Teach me Tonight (Me Gusta Tu Baile)"

• Teri Gender Bender, "SANAR"

• Kevin Kaarl, "recuérdame x siempre"

• Violeta Parra, "Cantores Que Reflexionan"

• Ben Aler, "Honest"

• Jose Luiz Martins, "Cravo e Canela"

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0:24.1	Okay, so here's my new TikTok passion.
0:26.3	Your new TikTok passion?
0:29.3	There's this woman.
0:30.7	She's a mathematician.
0:32.4	She's doing all of these algebra equations.
0:37.1	She does them in English and in Spanish. And she does it on a
0:40.2	whiteboard. Let's solve this problem. I watched like 10 of them in a row. I didn't think math was my
0:46.6	thing, but apparently it is. My reluctance to embrace math and fully accepted is the only reason
0:53.9	why I'm not an astrophysicist right now
0:56.7	instead of doing a podcast.
0:57.8	Oh, really? Oh, really.
0:58.7	That is the only reason why.
1:00.2	I love all the universe and the stars and stuff.
1:03.0	Uh-huh.
1:07.7	From NPR music, this is all Latino.
1:09.7	I'm Felix Contreras.
1:14.6	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chisement begin. So, for today's first song, I'm very excited to share something.
1:18.6	British Jazz Quintet. Quintet.
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