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    Review: '¡Spangled!' is a Protest Album That Tours Retro Latin Music

    '¡Spangled!' is a collaboration between Guatemalan born singer/guitarist Gaby Moreno and composer/arranger Van Dyke Parks that has been ten years in the making.
    by Peter Carbonara Oct 25, 2019 3 minutes
    LONGTIME COMING The collaboration between Parks (right) and Moreno has been a decade in the making.
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    ¡Spangled!, put out by Nonesuch records, is a collaboration between Guatemalan born singer/guitarist Gaby Moreno and composer/arranger Van Dyke Parks, has been ten years in the making. But the CD, part a nostalgic tour through several different styles of retro Latin American pop and part lushly orchestrated protest music, sounds perfectly timed to the remarkably ugly and xenophobic political moment America has been living through the past few years.

    Moreno, 38, says, "Our plan was to celebrate the diversity that we have in the Americas—so

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