New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest winner Alisa Amador, SOAK, Jens Lekman, more
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4.3 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Alisa Amador: "Milonga accidental" (Single)
2. Jens Lekman: "The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom," from The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom
3. Companion: "If I Were a Ghost," from Second Day of Spring
4. SOAK: "purgatory," from If I never know you like this again
5. Jasmyn: "Cruel Moon," from In The Wild
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | For a pair of music, you're connected to all songs considered on Bob Boyle and if I sound |
| 0:04.1 | excited it's because I am. It's the first time in 800 days that I'm recording a show at NPR. |
| 0:12.2 | I've been doing this in a bedroom at home in my apartment for the last couple of years and |
| 0:18.8 | but wow, here I am. In front of these beautiful noise and microphones and I have some great news |
| 0:27.2 | for you too. Every year I look forward to making one particular phone call. So the judges for |
| 0:36.4 | the Tiny Desk Contest, we've made a decision on the winner and we're about to call them and they |
| 0:41.4 | have no idea. I want to let you know, Alyssa, that you won the Tiny Desk Contest. |
| 0:50.8 | No, I'm so happy about it. Your entries have been amazing. |
| 1:00.9 | I thank you so much. This is an honor and a shock. I've been seriously considering stepping |
| 1:10.4 | away from music but I guess I can't yet. Oh, yes, I'm sorry, you can't do that. |
| 1:16.8 | Thank you. Wow. That's a reaction of Alyssa Amador, our 2022 Tiny Desk Contest winner. |
| 1:26.7 | She's a musician living around Boston but her family is from Puerto Rico, New Mexico, Argentina. |
| 1:32.6 | She was chosen out of the many thousands of entries by judges including Big Crit, |
| 1:37.3 | Ylee, Michelle's honor of Japanese breakfast, Ravenna, WBGO's Nate Chinin, NPR's Tiny Desk producer Bobby, |
| 1:44.8 | Carter and myself. We all loved our music. So it's time to play her winning entry. The song is called |
| 1:52.2 | Malonga Accidental. |
| 3:22.2 | Big O'Ga, and me balls, and me balls, and me balls. |
| 3:52.5 | Ah, that's Alyssa Amador, the 2022 Tiny Desk Contest winner. |
| 4:21.7 | Alisa will play her very own Tiny Desk Concert at NPR. |
| 4:26.5 | We hope to have that go online by the end of May. |
| 4:29.6 | From there she'll be going on tour, |
| 4:31.4 | go to npr.org slash Tiny Desk Contest |
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