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In Our Headphones

KEXP DJ Albina Cabrera on Venezuelan Composer Oksana Linde

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Albina Cabrera, editorial manager of KEXP’s Latin partnerships and co-host of the Latin alternative music show El Sonido, talks with Evie Stokes about how Venezuelan composer Oksana Linde transitioned from chemistry to music later in life—and about Buh Records, the Peruvian label releasing Linde’s work today.

Hosted by Evie Stokes
Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler
Mastered by: William Myers
Production support: Serafima Healy
Associate Director of Editorial: Dusty Henry

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0:00.0

From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to.

0:07.7

This is E.B. Stokes. And this week, I'm talking with DJ Al-Bina Cabrera. Hi, Al-Bina.

0:14.4

Hi, Evie. I'm so excited to be here with you. Thank you. Yeah, we're so excited to have you. And I'm hoping for folks who don't know about

0:22.3

Albina. Tell us a little bit about yourself, your show. I'm one of the host of El Senido,

0:27.6

which focuses on alternative Latin music. On 2025, we are turning 15. So it's our quinceaniera

0:36.0

kind of a party. So you chose a new track to share with us. Yes so it's our Kinsianera kind of a party.

0:40.7

So you chose a new track to share with us.

0:45.9

Yes, it's Luciernagas in Los Manglares by Oksana Lindne,

0:53.3

totally forgotten pioneer of electronic music from Latin America.

0:54.4

And Lucienagas in Los Angeles means fireflies in the mangroves, I think, in English.

1:03.4

And this song has a very special story, you know, that she used to be a chemist, actually, in the past, but she had a very bad accident.

1:16.3

So she left that career behind and she started making experimental electronic music.

1:24.4

But she released her debut album when she was 74 years old. Wow. And it's because Boo Records,

1:35.2

which is the label that released this song, found her and her music. And they were like,

1:41.3

we need to release this music.

1:52.2

So I'm very excited that now everyone can enjoy this beautiful, beautiful music by Oksana Linde, who was born in Caracas in 1948 to Ukrainian parents that fled the Nazis during the World War II.

2:04.7

So you are going to find a lot of beautiful experimental environments and beautiful sound.

2:13.5

So this is part of Travezias, the album, that you will find compositions between 1986 and 1994.

2:23.9

But her debut album came out in 2022, and it's called Aquatic and Other Worlds.

2:32.1

Do you know any information about how this record label found her?

2:35.7

Bueno.

2:36.5

Boo Records is one of my favorite, like, indie labels from Peru.

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