What's in our mailbag? The beauty of simplicity

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The past month has been a whirlwind. The El Tiny takeover of the Tiny Desk... interviews with some of the most exciting artists in Latin music... and, of course, puppets! So, for today's episode, we emerge from the craziness and dig into our neglected mailbag, which is brimming with new music. What did we find? Simple beauty. A young songwriter from Veracruz whose spare compositions have wowed his elders. An offbeat producer from Madrid. And, a joyful ode to a city half a millennium old.

Featured artists and songs:

- Arath Herce, "Musas en Mi" and "Quien Pensaría"

- iLe, "Si Te Contara"

- TRISTAN!, "Voyage" and "Ártico"

- Venezonix ft. Pahua, "La Soledad"

- Meme de Real, "Estaba Sentado" and "Embeces"

- Bomba Estereo ft. Carlos Vives, "La Samaria"

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0:00.0	This message comes from NPR sponsor, Subaru.
0:03.4	All month long, Subaru is helping shelter pets find loving homes, including the hard-to-adopt underdogs.
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0:13.4	Okay, I'm here.
0:14.3	You're here.
0:14.9	I had to get a massage this morning.
0:16.3	I need a massage.
0:17.5	No, actually, what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get a massage from this like Curandera energy healer because after my, um, doctor told me I was cursed when you heard about all my history of injuries, I was like, I think I need to go see a curandera and see what's up. Because my friend was like, there must be something wrong. Like, you keep having these weird feet injuries. Boy, if I could find a
0:37.6	Kundera here in Washington, D.C., I have a job for her. Full time. On the payroll. You have
0:45.8	Kings Bosh for that, Felix. It's okay. No, I mean, for the country. Oh, this is not the
0:50.6	politics podcast. This is not. Sorry.
0:56.0	From NPR music, this is out Latino.
0:57.2	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:59.5	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
1:00.8	Let the Chisemay begin.
1:14.2	Okay, Anna, we have been crazy busy the last month.
1:15.6	Crazy. Emphasis on the crazy.
1:23.8	Amazing tiny dust concerts, El Tiny, lots of activity, lots of us moving around.
1:27.2	I think we were in Puerto Rico, you're in D.C. Now you're where. Where are you now?
1:30.2	Mexico. I finished out the month where I properly needed to finish out the month in Mexico.
1:35.1	So while we were doing all that, of course our new music stuff backed up. Of course it did.
1:40.7	This has been kind of a crazy experience, Felix, because really I've never felt such an
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