Catalina Maria Johnson
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The Colombian band stretches their boundaries across the decades, expanding on its swing and jazz-indebted sound with a pop sensibility.
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The quartet, from four different countries and brought together through a collaboration initiative from the State Department, stitches the sounds of their homes into wholly new cloth.
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The band's sophomore album, Rios de Norte y Sur, pays loving homage to a music born of the collision of indigenous, African and Spanish cultures in colonial Mexico.
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The bandleader skillfully mixes classical, jazz and hip-hop in a powerfully creative statement about Cuban music.
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With hints of chicha and electrified Miles Davis, La Mecánica Popular makes the ancient sound like the future on their new album, Rosa Cruz.
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The music featured on this week's show expands the notion of just what is Latin music.
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Esencia Solar, recorded while his partner was expecting the couple's first child, is full of life-affirming peace and joy.
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A two-week period in early January is a bounty of Latinx music showcases providing a musical pulse of a variety of genres.
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The histories and sounds of Mexico's Comcaac and Canada's First Nation peoples inspire and drive the new work of Hector Guerra and Akawui.
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A Jewish-Latin connection that goes back centuries is celebrated in the work of a New York-based singer and composer.