DISCOVERY
SESSIONS
Three melómanos · One hi-fi room · No scripts
Once a month, three music lovers sit down with songs they love — songs that stayed with them, songs they want someone else to hear. No coordination. No group chat about themes. Each of us brings music without knowing what the others are bringing. Then we press play and see what the room says.
Latest session
Entre Mundos /
Between Worlds
South Carolina · Montreal · Brooklyn · Liverpool · Paris · Houston · Chicago · Amsterdam · Bamako
Nine songs. Five languages. Nobody from where they sound like they're from. A thread about being between worlds emerged anyway.
The hosts
Mónica Posada
Fifteen years in radio. One obsession: music that knows where it comes from. Creator of Globoscopio, broadcast weekly on Concepto Radial from Global Frequency Labs in Chicago. Her curation follows the thread between ancestral traditions and what happens to them when the world keeps moving.
Michelle Cohen
Her love of music deepened in 2018 at the rail of a live show — and hasn't slowed down since. Twenty-five concerts a year, four hundred playlists. She listens for what she calls an ethereal quality: the wistfulness of folk, the hook of garage rock, the depth of soul. She believes your taste is never finished — that even a song you think you hate has something to teach you.
Paul De Los Reyes
Grew up in a Filipino household where the Beatles played at breakfast, disco filled the living room, and jazz arrived with dinner. Music was how the family found their footing in America — and how Paul found his. He plays in bands. He listens for the moment a group locks in, everyone moving together. He calls it the pocket. Once you've felt it, nothing else quite compares.
"The message today was about finding that thread of in-between worlds — entre mundos — and that's where the most honest music lives."— Mónica Posada
"I lived in Mali for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. I actually lived in Mopti. What's so cool about their voice is, in Mali, they have something called griots — basically oral storytelling. You can hear that in the music."— Michelle Cohen
"Having a format like this and a discussion like this, it reminds me to stop watching reruns on TV. There's so much music out there to explore."— Paul "El Guapo" De Los Reyes