rice and beans is named after gallopinto, a traditional Central American dish you can have for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Like the dish, this monthly morning radio show is meant to accompany you through the day, offering comfort and connection.

With nostalgic sounds and musical storytelling, the show highlights migrant selectors based in Germany, exploring memory, identity, and belonging.

Hosted by azulado, co-founder of Gatxs and organizer based in Leipzig.

«Memory, also, in its way loves
and, as someone said, “There is no forgetting”» — Enrique Lihn

Animalite invites us to reflect on the concepts of memory and oblivion, diving into lyrics about an old lover that still haunts you, a lost relative, a lost place, a poem from exile, or songs from a time when the past was a starting point to dream a different future — the ghost of a lost future, as Mark Fisher said. This selection brings the art of the cover song as well as sampling, quoting and storytelling through lyrical or instrumental motifs to the foreground. It is a homage to the exercise of memory embedded in music culture, showing how these pieces take whole new meanings and open up new possibilities. Experiencing music forces us to remember and make connections. No sound wave alone has any meaning to our ears without repetition, and sound is not perceived as music if lacking difference. Some sound has to necessarily fade away in order for music to exist. Isn’t that nostalgic?

Animalite was born in Santiago de Chile at the turn of the century and grew up influenced by the hardcore punk scene over there, the Sunday mornings with boleros and ballads on the radio, the family gatherings dancing to cumbia, the indie concerts that became a second home, the singer-songwriters always with a guitar at hand, the tunes of a puppet TV show, the political rappers, and protest chants reeking of tear gas. Since 2020 they’ve been growing roots in the East German city of Leipzig, where they DJ occasionally, contributing to the soundtrack of migrant communities while helping to break the notions of borders in music (and to justify having a vinyl collection at all).