Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Manu Chao, Linda Diaz and Solo Fernández

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week on Alt.Latino, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras talk about an exciting new album from Manu Chao on the way — his first in 17 years — and their favorite recent songs from artists like the Dominican indie rock band Solo Fernández, ethereal pop from Tiny Desk Contest Winner Linda Diaz and more.

Songs featured in this episode:

•Janiero feat. André Viamonte, "LEGO"
•Manu Chao, "São Paulo Motoboy"
•Solo Fernández, "TELESCOPIO"
•Solo Fernández, "BROOKLYN"
•Solo Fernández, "TÚ NUNCA DEJARÁS DE SER POESÍA"
•Linda Diaz feat. Solomon Fox, "Watching Ourselves Die"
•Julieta Rada, "Baile del Candombe"
•Amaia Miranda, "Mientras vivas brilla"
•Nick Drake, "Pink Moon"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. 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	Happy Bird!
0:07.0	Oh, God, I'm so lucky.
0:09.0	What?
0:10.0	That's the song. It's your happy birthday Felix.
0:16.0	Felix, look at, blow out your candles.
0:19.0	Felix made it to 35 today, everybody.
0:22.0	Yay! made it to 35 today everybody yay So Felix Serraia called me this morning.
0:33.2	She was like, don't tell Felix that you know it's his birthday.
0:36.4	Pretend you already forgot or something.
0:38.6	And I was like, I already texted him like two hours ago. I was just too excited that it's your birthday. That cake looks really good and I'm really
0:47.4	hungry. What's in the middle? Is that a cigar?
0:50.4	Lipstick bottle? Oh! This is one for the books. Beautiful cake and a very nice
0:58.1	Padron cigar right in the middle. It says 1964 anniversary series.
1:02.3	So Felix, it's your birthday. It's your birthday. And you are
1:05.8	always such a fuss about your birthday because I love birthdays and you're always
1:10.8	like mre mre mre I don't know, it's my birthday.
1:13.0	So today, we're doing a whole show for your birthday.
1:16.0	Oh, thank you for it.
1:17.0	I decided this morning.
1:18.0	Our new music show is Felix's birthday new music show,
1:22.0	and in honor of your birthday I'm bringing you all stuff
1:25.2	you're gonna actually like today.
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