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.

From the southern coast of Ecuador, shaped by salty breezes and plenty of ñeque, Suena Chelo moves as a DJ/Selector of Afro-Latin Music, artificer and promoter of cultural movidas.

Through projects like La Popular (Göttingen) and +59Ñeque (Berlin), he co-creates spaces where Global South diasporas come together through joy, music, memory, and community.

“With plenty of “sabor a clave”, sweet melodies, and captivating stories, this selection spans three musical genres: salsa, boleros, and ballads, with the aim of highlighting the stories behind albums and songs that I admire greatly for the avant-garde genius of their musical arrangements, while also exploring the connections that bring them together like those hybrids of boleros and baladas en salsa.

Salsa musicians and orchestras such as La Sonora Ponceña, Típica 73, Larry Harlow, Roberto y su Apollo Sound, and others reinvented themselves countless times throughout their careers and brought music that challenged the established norms of their time. They did so by experimenting with new rhythms and themes, incorporating new technologies and unconventional instruments, or exploring new ways of playing them.

Boleros and ballads, with their gentle melodies - perfect for accompanying a morning - are no exception to the avant-garde spirit of those musicians who knew how to reinvent these genres. Their genius lies not only in the unique voices of their performers but also in the melodramatic poetry of their lyrics: stories straddling fiction and reality, recounting love, heartbreak, and guilt.”