Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: La Doña, Sinego and Spanish Harlem Orchestra

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras play some of their favorite new songs from the last few months, featuring globe-spanning electronica from Colombian producer Sinego, border-crossing new music from La Doña, nuanced salsa from Spanish Harlem Orchestra and more.

Songs featured in this episode:

•Adrian Quesada, "Dos Manos"
•Nancy Sanchez, "You Are"
•Sinego, "Quema"
•Sinego, Pahua, "Sol"
•Spanish Harlem Orchestra, "Llegó El Caballero (feat. Gilberto Santa Rosa)"
•La Doña, "Corrales"
•La Doña, "Corrido Para Palestina"
•Andres Levin (feat. Pedrito Martinez, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Yissy García & Yerba Buena), "Manteca 2.0 (An homage to Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie & Cayo Hueso)"
•Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller, "Manteca"
•Nico Sorin, Proyecto Gomez Casa, Lucy Patané, "Karma Dron"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Taylor Haney, with editorial support from Hazel Cills and Otis Hart. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR, and the following message come from Yarl and Pamela Mohn, thanking the people who make public radio great every day, and also those who listen.
0:15.1	Felix, I have a really stupid story for you today.
0:22.5	What is it?
0:24.1	On my bike right to the office.
0:28.4	My crutches got run over by a truck.
0:31.7	What?
0:33.6	What?
0:35.1	Wait a minute.
0:36.3	Your crutches got run over by a truck?
0:39.2	So as you know, I have a stress fracture right now.
0:42.1	And so I'm in a boot and I'm on crutches, which is absolutely impossible for me as a human being to figure out because I love being everywhere all the time.
0:50.8	And so I was like, I'm going to be so smart and bike to work and then put my crutches
0:55.1	on the basket. And they fell off and I couldn't do anything about it. And then I just watched
1:00.6	just two trucks in succession.
1:05.4	Ran over my crutches. And that's how I feel today.
1:13.3	From NPR music, this is all Latino.
1:19.6	I'm Felix Contreras.
1:20.8	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
1:22.9	Let the chisement begin.
1:25.6	And the chisement is that my crutches got run over.
1:28.3	We should just get right into the music because you can't top that.
1:32.7	There's nothing that's going to be better than that.
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