PãpaRadio Selections
Selected LPs and singles, curated
by PãpaRadio
INSTRUMENTAL LATIN / ANDEAN FOLK-WORLD
Los Andes
Hermanos Gutiérrez
EASY EYE SOUND | Α Concord Label Group Release
Released August 2026 (from the upcoming album Los Ojos Del Cóndor, 25 September 2026)
After «Canto Andino» opened the door to the spiritual heart of the Andes, «Los Andes» widens the view: two guitars and a lap steel tracing slow, cinematic arcs that feel like a flight over ancient peaks and sacred valleys. The Swiss-Ecuadorian duo Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez channel their South American heritage into a piece that moves between milonga, cumbia, and western-tinged melancholy — all without a single word. Produced by Dan Auerbach at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, the track is both intimate and vast, a preview of the duo’s upcoming album Los Ojos Del Cóndor (25 September) and a reminder that instrumental music can carry memory, landscape, and longing in equal measure.
CLASSICAL /JAZZ / SOUL
Black Mozart
Jon Batiste
DECCA RECORDS / Verve Label Group
Released August 2026
Jon Batiste’s «Black Mozart» is a solo-piano conversation across centuries: Mozart’s melodies enter through the lens of Black American music — jazz, blues, gospel, stride, and New Orleans soul — and emerge transformed but unmistakably themselves. Recorded in a single day, the album moves between playful irreverence and tender respect, dismantling over-familiar themes only to rebuild them with unexpected harmonies, rhythmic detours, and moments of quiet revelation. The standout «Alla Blues» (built on the «Rondo alla turca») captures this perfectly: a theme we think we know suddenly breathing with new swing, new weight, new history. It is not a radical reinvention, but a coherent, deeply personal statement: a reminder that the classical canon can breathe, bend, and belong to new histories without losing its core.
LOUNGE / NU-JAZZ
Helping Hand
matahari sons & Mo’ Horizons (feat. Kat Abel)
AGOGO RECORDS
Released August 2026 (initially as a single in 2025)
«Helping Hand» is the kind of track that feels like a warm hand on your shoulder: a compact, sun-drenched blend of nu-jazz, lounge, and understated house grooves. Originally released as a single in 2025, it now finds its place on the album «Sol en Berlin» without losing any of its immediacy. Kat Abel’s vocals give it a human, almost confessional tone, while the production stays elegant and uncluttered — a bassline with subtle swing, vocals placed just right, and an overall mood that lingers after the last note. Mo’ Horizons bring their acid jazz heritage, matahari sons their Mediterranean touch, and together they craft a song that is both European and open, urban and coastal.
INSTRUMENTAL LATIN / ANDEAN FOLK-WORLD
Canto Andino
Hermanos Gutiérrez
EASY EYE SOUND | Α Concord Label Group Release
Released July 2026
Canto Andino is a quietly luminous instrumental, where Hermanos Gutiérrez let a single acoustic guitar line bloom into an airy, Andean landscape of charango and soft organ. Inspired by the spirit and mountains of the Andes, it moves with slow, breathing intensity rather than drama, turning their blend of Latin rhythms and western soundscapes into a short, contemplative journey that feels more like a memory than a typical single.
TRIP-HOP / PROTEST SONG
Boots On The Ground
Massive Attack | Tom Waits
PIAS
Released April 2026
Boots on the Ground sounds like a dispatch from a world already half-burned down. Massive Attack wrap the track in dread and metallic pulse, while Tom Waits snarls from somewhere between a bunker and a broken radio, turning protest into theatre and theatre into prophecy. It’s a bruised, unflinching piece of art: less a song than a warning siren dressed in smoke, grit, and moral exhaustion. It doesn’t just reflect the chaos of the present; it gives that chaos a voice, and in doing so, makes the silence around it sound even louder.
FOLK
Against The Dying Of The Light
José Gonzalez
Mute Records
Released March 2026
Against the Dying of the Light finds José González at his most restrained and quietly urgent. Built on delicate fingerpicking, hushed vocals, and a patient sense of space, the album turns folk minimalism into something reflective and subtly defiant. Rather than reaching for drama, González lets the songs unfold with calm precision, giving the record a meditative power that lingers long after it ends.
PROTEST SONG / POLITICAL ROCK
Streets of Minneapolis
Bruce Springsteen
Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Released January 2026
With “Streets of Minneapolis” Bruce Springsteen returns as America’s ultimate storyteller, delivering one of the most direct and politically charged songs of recent years. Starting sparse and almost acoustic, the track builds gradually into a full-blown, emotionally charged rock anthem, backed by the band and choral vocals that echo the classic E Street Band sound.
Lyrically, Springsteen paints a dark, wintry urban landscape “ablaze” under the boots of a “conqueror,” directly naming the “private army of King Trump from DHS” and targeting state violence and anti-immigrant policies. References to victims Alex Pretti and Renee Good, with their “bloody stains where mercy should have been,” turn the song into both a tribute and a cry of rage against ICE terror on Minneapolis streets.
“Streets of Minneapolis” clearly dialogues with “Streets of Philadelphia”—not just in title, but in raw emotion: it’s a song of memory, collective shame, and the urgent call to resist. Springsteen writes, records, and releases it in mere days, with the raw immediacy of old protest broadsides, proving that in 2026, he’s still one of rock’s most vital, political, and essential voices.
FOLK
The man comes around
Pulp
Label Rugh Trade Records Ltd.
Released November 2025
Pulp step into unexpected territory with a haunting reinterpretation of Johnny Cash’s iconic “The Man Comes Around.” Originally released by the Man in Black over two decades ago, the song’s stark biblical imagery and solemn power have long made it a cornerstone of American songwriting.
Though Jarvis Cocker and his band rarely gravitate toward covers, they chose to revisit this sacred track for the British series The Hack, which explores the phone-hacking scandal that shook the UK fifteen years ago. Only months after their return with More, Pulp unveil this new recording — the first of three fresh tracks from an upcoming EP.
Rather than cling to the original’s sparse acoustic gravity, the band opens “The Man Comes Around” into more spectral shades, giving it a subtle, mystical groove. Cocker’s voice drifts between earthly and ghostlike, all while treating the original text with unmistakable reverence.
A masterful touch.
INDIE ROCK
Hold on to the light
Jack Johnson | Hermanos Gutiérrez
Label Jack Johnson
Released November 2025
Hold On To The Light brings together two heavyweight acts: Hermanos Gutiérrez, masters of the cinematic guitar sound, and Jack Johnson, one of the most recognizable modern singer-songwriters.
The brothers’ signature atmospheric guitars set the tone, while Johnson’s voice keeps the track grounded and direct. A stripped-back, confident piece that relies solely on the strength of its creators.
INDIE POP
Do you hate me now
Winona Oak
Label Nettwerk Music Group/Queen of Lifestyle AB
Released November 2025
Swedish singer-songwriter Winona Oak released her new single “Do You Hate Me Now” — her first solo music since the EP Salt, released earlier this year via Nettwerk.
“Do You Hate Me Now” opens small and intimate, with soft piano and her warm, husky voice. Slowly, it swells into a lush, cinematic soundscape, layering strings and subtle electronics. Stylish and modern, yet never distant, the track pulls you close and lets you feel the weight of love fading.
COUNTRY
Workin' man : Willie Sings Merle
Willie Nelson
Label Legacy Recordings
Released November 2025
The album Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle finds Willie Nelson at his 78th solo studio album — and the 155th release of his monumental career.
Here, Willie revisits some of Merle Haggard’s timeless gems, filtering them through his own effortlessly classic touch. Another chapter in his long-standing love for dedicating full albums to the songwriters who helped shape American music.
REGGAE
Know Nothing About
Marina P & The Co-Operators
Label Waggle Dance Records
Released October 2025
The Italian singer Marina Peloso and Eeyun Purkins’ British band drop an eclectic rocksteady & roots album that channels the golden spirit of Jamaica’s legendary studios — hand-crafted reggae shaped by the deep, timeless sounds of the 60s, 70s and 80s.