From MPR Music, this is Alt Latino, I'm Felix Gondranas and it's that time of the year.

Time to look back at the year that was in music and talk about some of the albums that made

an impression on us. And by us, this year I am surrounded by good friends who also happen to

be music geeks like me. Now let's go around the Brady Bunch Zoom Squares and introduce our guest.

Let's start with you Anna. Hi, I'm Anna Maria. I'm excited to be here with all of these lovely

ladies talking about this amazing music. Hi, I'm Stephanie Fernandez. It's so good to be back on

Alt Latino talking about the best music of the year. Buenos amizabelago, me sir Viento,

so excited for this conversation this year. Hello Catalina Maria Johnson, really excited to be here.

It's the best time of the year. Thanks Felix, thanks ladies, ladies and one gentleman.

Saludo San Marisa, our Bono Gris and I'm always excited to be part of the best of whatever year.

Okay, this year we're going to try something different. Okay, Alt Latino will have a final

list of 15 albums that we came up with by polling you guys. So instead of going around the table to

talk about our individual favorites, we're going to instead try to find some themes that either tie

these albums together or set them apart. And after careful considerations, I came up with these three

themes, genre breakers, genre defining and discoveries or surprises. Okay, the one album that

everyone voted to include was El Madrilenio by Set and Ghana. He had a very big year, not the least

of which was because of his jaw dropping tiny desk home concert back in April. This album was

released back in February and it's still on everyone's list, right? It's like it's crazy.

Let's go around the Brady Bunt Zoom table and give me a quick statement of why this record has so

much staying power for you personally. Catalina. Well, this is my favorite kind of album really. This

is an album that shows its roots. I mean, they go down real deep and yet it's like the skeleton

of Cetangana, who the deep rooted flamenco music, but he's wearing it in such interesting ways. He's

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