Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3629882/?format=api
{ "id": 3629882, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3629882/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-16T21:19:45-07:00", "show": 66201, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66201/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Ojalá Fuera tu Voz", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Santa Sabina", "artist_ids": [ "a8542271-1d5a-426e-b098-8aeecd197523" ], "album": "Mar adentro en la sangre", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "f68b44ca-b0f8-37fb-a48d-ade4513e2656", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2000-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Santa Sabina built one of the most singular catalogs in Latin American rock, drawing together gothic atmosphere, art-rock ambition, jazz-inflected movement, and the unmistakable voice of Rita Guerrero. “Ojalá Fuera tu Voz,” from Mar Adentro en la Sangre, belongs to the later chapter of that journey and remains a powerful example of the band’s ability to make longing sound both spiritual and earthbound. The title alone is devastating. It imagines not just hearing someone, but becoming the sound that reaches them. That is a profound form of desire: to erase distance by inhabiting the medium of intimacy itself. Santa Sabina were uniquely equipped to carry such a thought into music because they rarely treated emotion as merely personal. They gave it ritual, architecture, and a sense of elemental scale. In “Ojalá Fuera tu Voz,” the ache is unmistakable, yet it never collapses into sentimentality. Instead, the band surrounds it with dramatic musical space, allowing the feeling to echo, darken, and bloom. Guerrero’s presence is central to that effect. She could sound commanding and fragile in the same phrase, turning the song into both invocation and confession. What remains so striking is how naturally Santa Sabina combine poetry and force. It does not simply describe yearning; it stages yearning as an atmosphere one must move through.\nListen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjjRTPWjmYE", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }