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HOT HALF DOZEN 7.29.25 – IndiePulse Music Journal


First column again from Spain. TRhe ne musician characteristic right here is just not flamenco, however an African Kora participant. Plus conventional Mexican, scorching blues rock, and Chilean and Columbian love songs.

106 songs, albums and movies submitted for evaluate

Amanece (a Pepe Mujica), single by Manuel Garcia.  The sensation is Spanish, the motion is light rock, the lyrics are storytelling with the hypnotic melody of Chilean trova.  Garcia combines the guts and the guitar strings like nobody else.  This 12 months marks the twentieth anniversary of the discharge of debut solo album Pánico,  Manuel García’s seminal work in modern Chilean songs that formed a whole technology. Stream on Spotify and different main platforms.  Catch his tour if you’re in Mexico. Spanish.

Duele, single video by Esteman & Daniela Spalla.  With two Grammy noms, it’s no shock that the Colombian artist Esteman ( Esteban Mateus Williamson) can spin out lovely, loving music.  When mixed with the composing expertise and voice of the Argentine singer-songwriter Daniela Spalla, the product is that this uplifting, emotional earworm.  Stream on all main platforms and YouTube. Spanish.

Dime, EP by Silvana Estrada. Conventional, but trendy.  Estrada carries you together with the sleek, female energy of her voice, backgrounded by the horns of regional Mexican music in some songs and her piano and whistling in others. Three songs, every totally different, however every a mirrored image of her enormous expertise.  I particularly like “Lila Aleli”, however your favourite could also be one of many others.  Stream on Spotify and different main platforms. Spanish.

El Equivocado, single by Angela Aguilar. A regional favourite, steeped within the taste of Mexico, Aguilar tasks the emotion of a telenovela along with her traditional voice, starting clean and dreamy after which ramping the facility up because the violins soar.  That is coronary heart of Mexico and it grabs your coronary heart.  Stream on Spotify and different platforms. Spanish.

I’m executed runnin’, single Samantha Fish.  The queen of blues rock is at it once more, grabbing your….intestine along with her nuclear-powered cigar field guitar and heartbreaking blues voice. That is down an soiled exhausting rock blues coming at you with Fish’s  riffs and screaming blues voice.  There may be nothing prefer it within the blues world in the present day. Take a look at the entire album, Paper Doll.  Stream all over the place.

Kairo, album by Momo Maiga. I noticed him reside in Spain and was blown away. He performs the kora,  a standard West African stringed instrument, resembling a cross between a harp and a lute,  and crammed the auditorium of the Caixa Museum with candy sound. The album has 11 songs that mix the sweetness of the kora with African lite drums, a cello, violin. He collaborates with a number of artists on the album so every tune has a taste and character of its personal. Stream on Spotify.

Patrick O’Heffernan



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