Chicano soul, Canary Islands merengue and a percussion supergroup
Alt.Latino
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4.5 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Featured artists and albums:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:55) Quevedo, 'NI BORRACHO'
(05:02) Joey Quiñones, 'In a Soul Situation'
(12:24) Carolina Mama, 'Amina'
(15:31) Elipsis, 'Elipsis'
(19:22) Da Cruz, 'Som Sistema'
(23:46) Sofía Rei, 'Antónima'
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| 0:14.3 | Did you take that picture in your background, or did you find it on? |
| 0:18.1 | Oh, I took it. You were with me. You were standing right next to me. |
| 0:20.6 | I know. For people that are listening, we're on Zoom, and I have this very, very nice shot of a beautiful church in Mokorito, Mexico, Sinaloa. Do you remember we sat there in that plaza and we chatted for like three hours one morning? Yeah, we had solved all our problems of the world. We solved all the world's |
| 0:38.7 | problems, like we do every day. And yet nothing changed. Okay, from NPR music, this is all |
| 0:49.4 | Latino. I'm Felix Contreras. And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chisema begin. The Chisema is still new music. I have so much stuff left over from when I was out. And it keeps piling up. So we got to get through this because there's a ton of great stuff. Your first. But I went first last week. Okay, fine. So I brought in a song that I think is going to perfectly set off the tone for this episode. |
| 1:13.5 | It's called Ni Borracho, and it's by Kevedo. |
| 1:17.5 | Today me be tomah la car when I've mirroled to the spejo. |
| 1:21.2 | I have lost over myra margazza, so t'alludeau marcahs me I'm a leo If I'm There's a |
| 1:28.3 | In the island |
| 1:29.3 | There's |
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| 1:33.3 | There's no |
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| 1:35.3 | In car' |
| 1:37.3 | There's no |
| 1:39.3 | Timmal' |
| 1:41.3 | The wind of the |
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