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Alt.Latino picks the best music of 2023 (so far)

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite albums of 2023 so far, from the modern corridos tumbados of Peso Pluma, a new, reimagined version of one of Fito Paez's greatest albums, dream pop from Y La Bamba and more. Plus: a run down of regional Mexican's current explosion.

Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0

We are very happy to see you all!

0:07.0

Let's go!

0:08.0

I'm the big PR music, this is Latino and Felix Confredas.

0:12.0

I'm Ana Maria Serra, this is regional Mexican artist,

0:17.0

Pesso Pluma on his new album, Hennessy's.

0:20.0

This week we are talking best albums of the year so far,

0:23.0

and obviously the Doble Pei himself had to make it on that episode.

0:29.0

We are going to talk a lot more about Pesso Pluma Mexican regional later in the show,

0:33.0

but we have a whole bunch of great new music that's not Mexican regional.

0:37.0

There's justice deserving of recognition, let's just jump right into it.

0:41.0

This is an album from one of my favorite vocalists,

0:44.0

she's from Mexico, her name is Mago Serrera,

0:47.0

and she's travels all of these genres, between jazz, folk,

0:51.0

lorick, what we call art music, all these different things.

0:53.0

She's performed with strings, she's performed with a small combo,

0:56.0

she's got a versatility to her voice,

0:59.0

that is so intriguing, I'm just such a big fan that I brought her in for a tiny desk,

1:04.0

a couple years ago, with the string quartet Brooklyn writer,

1:07.0

so she does all kinds of great music,

1:09.0

and on this album she really digs into that genre, jumping in.

1:14.0

She has a few collaborators from different aspects of the music world,

1:17.0

there's classical, there's some jazz artists,

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