♫ John Schaefer provides excellent curation of contemporary musical settings of great Latin-American poets. Where else could you find a collection like this, in such a readily digestible format?

SNIP “Listen to contemporary settings of great Latin-American poets on this New Sounds. Hear a combination of choir and electric guitar by built around the poetry of Chilean poet Elias Letelier by Canadian composer/electric guitarist Tim Brady.  The work, “Atacama,” is sung in Spanish, with text about metal, circuitry, atoms and not thinking about microphones. ”

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