Felix and Ana try out New Year's Resolutions

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Will Ana and Felix ever figure out their New Years Resolution for 2025? The clock is ticking. They contemplate that and share their favorite recent new music.

Songs featured in this episode:

Marina Albero, "First Step of the journey"
Beelé, Ovy On the Drums, "Mi Refe"
Fela Kuti, "Shakara"
The Bongo Hop, "La Pata Coja feat. Nidia Gongora"
nsqk, Easykid, "BOBOMENSOTONTO"
Federico Aubele, "Te Quiero a Ti"
Juana Aguirre, "lo_divino"

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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	New Year's resolution 2025, you and I were going for controlled chaos this year. We're raining it in, keeping it organized, but keeping it exciting. So that's
0:22.2	my resolution for us. And I wanted to hear what your hopes and dreams are for us this year, too.
0:27.5	I was, I am not prepared to even go that deep.
0:34.5	I'm Felix Contreras. I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chisemate begin. It's the first episode,
0:41.5	well, the first real episode of the year, Felix. We have to set our intentions. I think,
0:47.0	okay, so, my intentions, my intentions are to continue to present amazing music every week.
0:57.5	I'm going to give you an opportunity to re-answer that at the end of this episode.
1:02.2	At the end.
1:02.4	Okay? Be thinking.
1:03.7	Yeah.
1:04.0	I get to start the show this week because I picked a track called First Step of the Journey.
1:11.9	So appropriately, it's the first.
1:13.8	So you were thinking about it.
1:15.6	I guess so.
1:16.5	This is a pianist by the name of Marina Alverro, and the name of the album is a nomad of sound.
1:22.5	She is Barcelona-born, Seattle-based.
1:26.7	She mixes jazz, Cuban, modern Spanish, improvised music, a lot of that stuff that we
1:32.0	listen to from those people coming from Barcelona, and even classical.
1:35.8	She recorded her new album in New Orleans.
1:38.6	It's a cross-section of amazing musicians that she's known over the years, including a lot of
1:43.1	New Orleans musicians.
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