Alt.Latino: Sonic Bloom: Fresh, funky new tracks from Rio, Granada and more

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Listen to this episode out in the springtime air. It starts with a bucolic jaunt through Brazilian guitarist Fabiano do Nascimento's latest orchestral project, then finds La Plazuela's fresh Spanish funk and Macha's irreverent side project. Other sounds along the way: Caribbean pop from Venezuela, feel-your-feels indie from northern Mexico and an electronic spin on the indigenous Náhuatl language.

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0:00.0	I don't know. Tell me about your life, so what's going on?
0:03.0	What's going on? Just being fabulous, as for always. I'm just, I'm like so happy that the trees are blooming and it's like defrosting in New York and it feels like life is literally worth living again. Oh, this is good. I'm glad we're realizing that.
0:18.0	Yeah. How are you? Fabulous. I'm equally as elated. I love sunshine. I love spring. I love spring energy. It is my favorite time of year. Me too. Felix, speaking of spring energy, is out with, I guess, a bad case of allergies. I don't really know. The point is, is it's always my favorite day. Don't tell Felix
0:38.8	when he's like, I can't because then I'm like, well, Issa can. So I'm really excited because we
0:45.4	haven't really chatted about new music in a while. I immediately saw you brought some music that I
0:50.2	am equally as excited about. So, without further ado, from NPR Music,
0:55.1	this is all Latino.
0:56.2	I'm Anna Maria Sear.
0:57.5	And I'm Isabella Gomez-Armiento.
0:59.9	Let the cheesemaid begin.
1:01.6	Yay!
1:05.9	Okay, so I want to let you go first because this first track that you brought was like, I was kind of bitter.
1:16.6	I was like, wait, no, this was like my shining track, like album that I was so excited to bring.
1:21.2	But it's okay, because we can talk about it.
1:22.9	We can talk about it.
1:23.9	We can talk about it.
1:24.6	Go ahead, Issa.
1:25.2	Take it away.
1:25.7	I'm sorry to steal your thunder.
1:27.4	My first song is,
1:29.3	it's the opening track off of a new album by the Brazilian guitarist Fabiano Donacimiento,
1:35.0	and it's this really sweeping cinematic project that he worked on with the Victor Santos Orchestra.
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