Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Rosalía, Twanguero and Wyatt Flores

Alt.Latino

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4.5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre play a few of their favorite new tracks, some from Alt.Latino standbys and some exciting new discoveries, too. Also, we hear from an Alt.Latino listener about a Dominican song that moves her.

Songs featured in this episode:

• Twanguero, "Rumba #2"
• Twanguero, "La Leyenda de Cañaveral"
• Rosalía, "Omega (feat. Ralphie Choo)"
• Wyatt Flores, "Oh Susannah"
• pablopablo, Helado Negro, "Lejos De Más"
• Troker, "El Novio (Versión Mariachi)"
• Los Sufridos, Bad Gyal, "Duro de Verdad pt. 2"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Editorial support from Hazel Cills. 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.
0:10.4	You know, what's interesting this week is that we have some repeat names.
0:13.2	Oh, sorry.
0:14.7	Seriously, Felix? Interesting already?
0:18.7	Producer Soraya Mohammed. She's making faces at me. We need to find other things to say other
0:24.2	than interesting. Engroasing, absorbing, fascinating, riveting. Wow, these are good words.
0:29.9	She's making a face at us right now to continue with the show. From NPR music, this is all
0:35.4	Latino. I'm Felix Contreras. And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
0:39.3	Let the Chisement begin.
0:40.9	The Chisemet this week is new music, right?
0:44.7	Isn't it always?
0:46.0	I get to go first this week.
0:47.8	I'm going to play something from an artist named Twangero,
0:50.4	and it's a play on the word twang,
0:52.9	which from the 1950s, it was a popular rock guitar sound by using a lot of reverb and tremolo, shaking the strings, bending the strings, etc.
1:02.0	There's a guy named Diego Garcia. He's from Spain, and he's adopted this name. He's easily one of the most fascinating guitarist I've ever heard. I'll tell you why, but let's listen to a track from this new album called Pan Amica.
1:13.6	It's called Rumba number two.
1:15.6	This is Twangero. Check it out. I'm I'm I'm
1:28.3	I'm
1:29.3	I'm
1:30.3	I'm
1:32.3	I'm
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