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December’s edition of Global Beats is the first of a three part series from South America.

Presenter Sofia Trucco, herself a musician and part of the all-women trio ¹óé³¾¾±²Ô²¹, introduces a varied and enticing selection of Argentine musical talent.

The show kicks off with sublime acapella singing from duo Perota Chingó. The two women owe their flourishing career to an amateur video which went viral of them singing at sunset on a beach.

Sofia Trucco belongs to a group of artists who are re-discovering Argentina’s folk and indigenous music and bringing it to a new generation and to the dancefloor, thanks to electronic remixes. From this group, she’ll be talking to Chancha via Circuito, Uji, King Coya and Dat Garcia.

Argentina’s most famous musical export is tango, and Global Beats will be hearing music from innovative tango pianist and composer, Diego Schissi. Rock, which has dominated Argentina’s popular music scene in recent decades, is represented by Los Espiritus, who are refreshing the genre with eclectic sounds and lyrics which speak to the everyday experiences of Argentines struggling with a yo-yoing economy.

Then there’s the equally genre-busting Morbo y Mambo: kraut, electro, dub, afro-funk according to their website – you decide! And finally, the extraordinary ±á³Ü²Ô²µ°ùí²¹. Math rock was not much of a thing in Buenos Aires until these music school graduates started improvising on guitar, drum and loop and playing intriguing and rather brilliant games with rhythm.

(Photo: Sofia Trucco. Credit: Â鶹ԼÅÄ)

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53 minutes

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Sun 16 Dec 2018 20:06GMT
Â鶹ԼÅÄ World Service

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Music Played

  • Perotá Chingó

    Tonada De Luna Llena

  • Ríe Chinito

  • Los Espiritus

    Jugo

  • Las Armas Las Carga El Diablo

  • La Mirada

  • Diego Schissi

    El Borracho

  • Los Hermanos

  • Chancha Vía Circuito

    Coplita (feat. Miriam Garcia)

  • Dat Garcia

    Feliz_Cumpleanos

  • Uji

    Jenga

  • ±á³Ü²Ô²µ°ùí²¹

    Queso

  • ¹óé³¾¾±²Ô²¹

    Los senos

  • Morbo y Mambo

    Junior

Broadcasts

  • Sat 15 Dec 2018 12:06GMT
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
  • Sun 16 Dec 2018 20:06GMT
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ World Service

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