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228 songs, albums, videos submitted this week for review

When You Were Asleep (vol 1), single by Mirando del Sol..  Brooklyn-based Cuban-Argentinian singer, songwriter, and producer Miranda del Sol’s debut EP when you were asleep (vol. i) is a complex, emotional work of art.  Four songs, each with its own sweet personality, deeply feminine, caressing your ears and filling your heart.  Del Sol knows exactly how to sing to you/ Stream on Spotify and major platforms.

Buckingham Nicks, album by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.  A little rough around the edges, and very nostalgic for fans of a certain age, the sweetness and raw (unpolished) talent of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks not only make this hugely entertaining listening, but nicely previews what was to come later, the evolution of Fleetwood Mac with Buckingham and Nicks. Stream everywhere.

La Tirana, single by MON LAFERTE with NATHY PELUSO. What a power pair!. They will move you and sway you and make you think you are in the Copacabana  or  even a lush club in Havana in the 1930s and 1940s.  Soaring voices, bongos, horns, violins – they are all there in a trip through lux music.  Spanish. Stream everywhere.

Lies I Can’t Deny, single by Rhiannon Rodriguez.  Something very different.  Creative storytelling encased in its own music world.  A brilliant, but addictive arrangement surrounding her  very feminine but at times scary voice.  Possibly an acquired taste, but so well worth it.   Stream on major platforms.

Ginslinger, single by Natalie Bergman. Vintage 70s and 80s, but modern as today.  Steady beat backing the harmonizing voices and kinda’ spooky guitar riffs between the verses.  Altogether an earworm and aa very well put together piece of music.  Stream on Spotify and all major platforms.

Sangre de Gorilla by Michelle Bi.   A corrido, but a special one. Corridos are an  emotional,   narrative ballad that were used to tell the story of the oppressed during the Mexican Revolution.  In Bi’s hands, it is the voice  of the marginalized the forgotten. She delivers it in the flat, nasal corrido style, but with verve in the music.  Fascinating. Spanish. on Spotify and major platforms.

Patrick O’Heffernan, PhD., is a music journalist and radio broadcaster based in Los Angeles, California, with a global following. His two weekly radio programs, MusicFridayLive! and MusicaFusionLA are heard nationwide and in the UK. He focuses on two music specialties: emerging bands in all genres, and the growing LA-based ALM genre (American Latino Music) that combines rock and rap, blues and jazz and pop with music from Latin America like cumbia, banda, jarocho and mariachi. He also likes to watch his friend drag race.

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