Jorge Drexler ‘Toco Madera’
Today's Top Tune
KCRW
4.2 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Today’s Top Tune: Jorge Drexler ‘Toco Madera’
It’s Friday the 13th, a day often tied to bad luck — but we’ve got the antidote. Oscar and GRAMMY-winning icon Jorge Drexler delivers “Toco Madera” (“Touch Wood”), an energetic, percussion-driven track rooted in the rhythms of Uruguayan candombe. Drexler plays with the phrase’s double meaning: the universal ritual of knocking on wood to avoid tempting fate, and the act of striking the wooden drum that marks candombe’s rhythmic pulse. The result is a clever, swinging celebration of language, rhythm, and collective power.
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| 0:00.0 | Your GeoLocallicator Your geolocalisor says that you're |
| 0:23.6 | alehmus' |
| 0:24.6 | your point is move |
| 0:28.6 | but where and to where and |
| 0:30.6 | to who |
| 0:33.6 | I knew what I was going to |
| 0:36.6 | but I know what I was But I know |
| 0:38.3 | When |
| 0:39.3 | Oh |
| 0:40.3 | No |
| 0:42.3 | We're |
| 0:43.3 | We're |
| 0:44.3 | We're |
| 0:45.3 | Acelerando |
| 0:46.3 | All |
| 0:47.3 | The |
| 0:49.3 | Everyone |
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| 0:51.3 | There |
| 0:52.3 | No |
| 0:53.3 | It's No No I'm I'm thinks that there's a world thinks that there there's no important |
| 0:55.0 | what is the |
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