It is exhausting to consider it is already June. There’ve been so many nice new releases and so many thrilling new artists that it was, as at all times, very troublesome for Anamaria Sayre and I to decide on simply six artists to characteristic.
In a 12 months when each Unhealthy Bunny and Natalia Lafourcad — two pillars of Latin music — each made wonderful albums, Ana and I discovered ourselves digging deep into indie and barely below-the-radar artists who additionally made fascinating music during the last six months.
We begin this week by additionally being attentive to the truth that music doesn’t exist in a vacuum. We chat a little bit about how world occasions have had an impression on a number of the people who play Latin music and a few of you common listeners to Alt.Latino.
Heaps to soak up and, as at all times, a number of music to find.
Artists and songs featured on this episode:
- Damaris Bojor, “No es regular”
- Paloma Morphy, “(sola)”
- Camila Meza, “Transmutación”
- Queralt Lahoz, “YNEPN” and “UnPOCO+”
- Adrian Quesada, “No Juego (with Angélica Garcia)”
- rusowsky, “Johnny Glamour” and “BBY ROMEO”
Credit
Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and combined by Simon Rentner. Our venture supervisor is Grace Chung. NPR Music’s government producer is Suraya Mohamed.