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.

NXODXXP is a musician, producer, and collector of Argentine folklore and Andean music. Born in Rosario (Argentina), they are currently based in Leipzig.

Afro and Indigenous influences were, are, and will always be the pillars of the cultures we know today throughout Abya Yala. Toward the south, among lunfardo, the Gato, and Tango, lie the keys that shape Argentine identity.

From the mid and late 1950s until approximately the end of the 1970s—before the explosion of Argentine rock—folklore experienced a golden age in which people listened in folklore, fell in love in folklore, saw the world in folklore, and words such as mate, pampa, poncho, gaucho, and guitar became some of the many symbols associated with the projection of this genre. This was not because folklore was those things, but because it was a reduced, projected identity, designed to create cohesion within a population, using symbols that evoked feelings through its songs: the feeling of Argentine identity.

“In this program I do not come to honor the identity of a homeland, because I do not identify with any. Rather, I come to honor the romantic, the memory without memories that certain melodies, sounds, and rhythms awaken. Memories that evoke nostalgia—happy moments, wordless aromas, sepia photos on film, or my grandmother playing cards in the kitchen. Mornings in my parents’ bed, the hallway on Cerrito, my friend Alejandro’s house, and the pelopincho pool. Stories of honorable lives, long trips in the back seat, falling asleep in a boat while waiting for a dorado fish to bite the hook, and traumas that never made it around the block.

I want to honor inconsistency—the identity that only emerges in wounded gardens, in present distance, and in absent memories. In this program, romanticization is the feeling, and folklore and the Andes are the symbols, the key words. Words meant to awaken in listeners the images or feelings that dwell within the identity of displaced memories, so we can connect and meet within our migrant identity or our migrated identity.”