Hermanos Guti érrez Larry Niehues
Hermanos Guti érrez, the Ecuadorian-Swiss siblings whose important guitar tracks have actually come to be important paying attention for event followers, dropped their brand-new LP Sonido Cósmico (which converts to “cosmic sound”) Friday (June 14). Produced by Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach for his Easy Eye Sound tag, the spatial noises of Sonido Cósmico are indicated to raise the audience far from the desert landscapes of the band’s 2022’s outbreak cd, El Bueno Y El Malo, right into the limitless large of the music world.
Standout tracks on the document consist of the fascinating cumbia and salsa influenced tune “Cumbia Lunar” and “Low Sun,” their 2nd solitary, with a video that supplies a peek right into life inside a late-state parapsychology proving ground circa 1960, where physicists, neuroscientists and theorists research and examine superordinary sensations such as telepathy, ESP and the paranormal.
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Born 8 years apart, Estavan Guti érrez and his more youthful sibling Alejandro Guti érrez’s songs occupation started when Estavan was 28 and left their home in Switzerland to invest a year with their mother’s family members inEcuador
“I used to play the guitar in our house all the time and when I left, he missed hearing guitar songs,” Estavan remembers toBillboard “When I came back, he just could play the guitar. And I was amazed. I asked him how do you do it, and told me he learned guitar by watching YouTube videos.”
“We never wanted to be a band and tour — we just wanted to record our songs for vinyl because we’re vinyl lovers,” Alejandro shares. “For our first LP, Ocho Cincos, we printed, maybe, 200 copies. We thought nobody would buy it. But then we started to sell through word of mouth and we ended up doing a repress.”
Today, Hermanos Guti érrez’s distinct noise, the siblings clarify, can be found in component from the hefty impact from their mother’s grandpa, that presented them to the songs of Julio Jaramillo, an Ecuadorian vocalist from the 1940s and ’50s, and a guitar instructor that presented Estevan to Argentinian Malango songs.
“That’s first song that I had to learn,” he describes, “and the special finger picking needed that song always stuck with me. I really love the passion that you can feel, along with the nostalgia and the tragic sadness and love of these songs. Sad music is not something negative, it’s something beautiful. It’s honest, and it touches you heart.”
After launching their 2nd cd, El Cama, Hermanos Guti érrez began playing tiny jobs around Zurich, launching 5 LPs by themselves tag prior to connecting with Auerbach and launching El Bueno Y El Malo in 2022, making the team a cd of the year election at the 2023 Americana Music Honors & &Awards
“Dan is just such a mentor for us with his advice and his experience as a musician,” Alejandro claims.“It’s just amazing to see how he works in the studio, and I think he’s really helped us in the last month to level up our sound.”
The band’s following job is Sunday (June 16), at the Black Deer event in Kent, U.K., prior to heading to Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island on July 27. From there, they will certainly introduce an excursion via the Southwest united state with drop in Santa Fe, N.M.; Phoenix; and anAug 2 program at the Troubadour inWest Hollywood In August, Hermanos Guti érrez heads to Europe for a variety of heading programs prior to going back to the states in October to play 2 weekend breaks of Austin City Limits event.
Listen to brand-new cd Sonido Cósmico and take a look at the video clip for “It’s All In Your Mind” listed below.
