Alt.Latino: Why we love Joaquina. Plus, Felix is chismeless

All Songs Considered

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Do not come on Alt.Latino if you don't have good chisme! Ana and Felix talk about their favorite songs of the week, including some psychedelic cumbia, Cuban folk music and more.

Songs featured on the episode:

•Combo Chimbita, "Dímelo"
•Cortadito, "Yemaya"
•Joaquina, "desahogo"
•Joaquina, "aeropuerto"
•The Altons, "Waiting"
•Thee Midniters, "It'll Never Be Over For Me"
•Majo Aguilar, "el beso"
•Carrie Rodriguez, "Miles Away"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Editorial support from Hazel Cills. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.
0:06.4	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chisemate begin. Felix, bring me something good. What chisemate you have for me?
0:14.4	I'm looking for something juicy.
0:16.7	It's so cold out here in Washington, D.C. that it's too cold to go out. It's too cold to talk to people.
0:21.5	It's too cold to do anything.
0:22.7	I stayed home.
0:23.7	I've been working from home, man, so I got no cheeseman.
0:27.2	That sounds really depressing.
0:29.3	The goal was to get undepressing news.
0:31.9	Well, if we're going to get undepressed, we've got great music to do that.
0:35.4	It's a new music show this week. This is true.
0:38.1	What do you got? Okay, so, you know, I always try Felix to get you on board with my music,
0:46.1	and there's two ways I try to do that. One is my, I swear I can trick Felix into liking this bucket,
0:52.7	and the other is, I know Felix is a fan, and it's 100% slam dunk.
0:56.7	He's going to like it.
0:57.4	And I'm starting this week with one of my slam dunk songs.
1:01.6	So get excited.
1:03.6	This is from the band Combo Chimbita.
1:06.1	They're kind of like a psychedelic cumbia band coming out of Colombia.
1:10.5	This is their new single, Dimmelo. The time pass and we'll
1:35.3	that's it difficult not to feel us so.
1:41.3	Apenna just it's not that it's final we're connectedna It's not That's We're
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