The songs we can't stop playing on repeat

Alt.Latino

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🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Alt.Latino is usually all about sharing new music across Latin America, but what about the older cuts Ana and Felix are obsessed with?

On this episode, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras share the music they've been playing on repeat, from beloved classics by greats like Ella Fitzgerald to surprising new discoveries out of Mexico like Paloma Morphy.

Songs featured in this episode:

•Paloma Morphy, "me faltas tú"
•George Shearing Quintet, "Juana Palangana"
•Carin León and Bolela, "Aviso importante"
•Chick Corea Trio, "Spain"
•Alex Ferreira, "Un Cariñito"
•Alex Ferreira, "Un Cariñito (Versión Acústica)"
•Ella Fitzgerald, "Angel Eyes"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Taylor Haney. Editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	So, Felix, I don't know if you remember this.
0:08.1	That's when you know what I say.
0:10.7	I don't know if you remember this and I start laughing.
0:13.5	That's when I'm putting a blast.
0:15.5	It's happening.
0:16.3	So you called me the other day.
0:19.9	Out of nowhere, you call me and you go Anna I think that breathing
0:26.7	is actually just inviting the universe to enter into your body and fill your soul with thoughts
0:32.3	and then leave and I was like oh okay yeah okay I could I could see that and then you go and I think your
0:40.2	heartbeat that's the universe just entering your body too and just and filling you with with the
0:45.4	soul of the universe and then leaving and I was like oh yeah I mean I'm I don't really get how that
0:50.1	works but sure and then you go okay I'm in a parking garage. I got to go. You hung up the phone.
0:57.4	And that was the whole conversation. But my thought, when you hung up the phone, besides this man
1:02.4	is insane, is I was like, what was he listening to before he called me that brought on such
1:10.8	profound thoughts for you? Because you weren't just driving in silence.
1:16.0	You had to have been listening to something.
1:18.9	I honestly don't remember what I was listening to.
1:24.3	I've told like 20 people that story.
1:26.6	Everyone says that I need to have an account on Instagram that is exclusively your phone calls and text messages to me because they are literally I could write a novel.
1:35.5	Oh my God.
1:36.5	Very quickly, it goes back to something I read that, you know, I have this daily Zen calendar where every day there's a different.
1:44.1	I've seen this. I've seen this.
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