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Alt.Latino

Flamenco meets Música Mexicana

Alt.Latino

NPR

Music

4.5701 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Fusion is at the heart of so much of the music we cover - especially on this week's episode. Flamenco producers descend on Hermosillo to experiment with regional Mexican music. Young Argentine artists blend trap with folk and rock en Español. A sunny Rio sound is born in Spain. Plus, a New Mexican string band, an Afro-Brazilian collective and an exploration of Latin roots from Cypress Hill.  

Artists and albums featured in this episode:

(02:26) Trueno, 'TURR4ZO'
(09:37) Lone Piñon, 'Hot Carne Seca'
(13:20) Chanela Clicka, 'COBRA'
(18:50) Cypress Hill, 'Dios Bendiga'
(22:30) Leo Middea, 'Notícias de Puglia'
(25:28) Mandinga Beat, 'Afro-Brazil'

This podcast episode was produced by Noah Caldwell. Suraya Mohamed is the executive producer of NPR Music.

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0:00.0

From MPR music, this is all Latino.

0:05.3

I'm Felix Contreras.

0:06.5

And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chisme begin.

0:14.0

Felix, I actually have Chisemay this weekend.

0:16.1

I'm really, really, really very excited about it.

0:18.3

Okay, I'm ready.

0:19.5

So, as you know, I decided to just randomly

0:21.7

go to Bogota for a weekend because Milojota was performing in Bogota. I haven't actually seen him

0:27.3

in one of his concerts on this tour. I really wanted to, so I was like, I have to figure out a date

0:32.4

that works. Bogota, for whatever reason, I guess made sense. He played two nights sold out at the Movistar Arena.

0:39.6

He's touring all arenas.

0:41.4

He did a stadium in Peru, so really big shows.

0:44.4

And I went to the show, Felix, and I was like, oh, my God, this show gives me hope for the youth, for the future.

0:50.9

It was really like one of the most stunning crowd experiences.

0:55.3

I would maybe even say it rivaled or was not more impressive, like,

0:59.4

energetically than Bad Bunny's residency.

1:01.9

Wow.

1:05.9

The energy of the public and specifically the way that they stayed with him energetically.

1:12.0

It was like they sang every word to every song.

1:15.6

They do every single song.

1:17.5

And he starts on his trap stuff and then he goes and he takes you on this whole journey

1:20.9

through this latest album that's all very folkloric.

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