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Alt.Latino Playlist: Boleros And Innovative Electronic Music Warm Winter's Arrival

Vocalist Lido Pimienta continues her run of innovative music with her new single.

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Bundle up! We're getting ready for cold weather with new songs by Lido Pimienta, Dimelo Flow, Tiger Army and David Lawrence.


Lido Pimienta, "No Pude"

It's been three years since Colombian-Canadian artist released her second album (winner of Canada's Polaris Prize in in full at Toronto's X Avant Festival. Now, she's given us "No Pude," her first recorded music since , and it parses the complicated language of race, indigeneity, gender and violence that titles like these conjure. Pimienta says in a press release that "'No Pude' sums up the love / hate relationship I have with Colombia. I hold Colombia close to my heart and my soul, but that loves turns into rage and shame as fast as a match takes to burn."

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