Ecuadorian-Swiss brother duo, Hermanos Gutiérrez, announce their second Dan Auerbach-produced album today, Sonido Cósmico, with the release of the title track. But where El Bueno Y El Malo evoked the desert – blistering sun, baking hot highways — the new work levitates the listener, conjuring the unknowable expansiveness of outer space and a world beyond our own. “It’s not on earth,” says Estevan, the elder Gutiérrez. “We’ve started to fly.”
Sonido Cósmico is a sonic exploration that defies the conventional boundaries of instrumental music. The collection is a richly textured tapestry, interwoven with the intricate threads of Latin rhythms and ephemeral atmospherics: each track a vignette, a carefully crafted narrative without words, where the band's transcendent guitars speak in a language all their own. There is a subtle sophistication in the way the brothers fuse the elemental with the experimental. The album resonates with the echoes of their Latin musical heritage, yet it is undeniably contemporary in its execution, both nuanced and expansive.
The new project stands as a reflective mirror to the band's evolving artistry, united by music across age and geographical divides: a sound mosaic as celestial as its title, an expression of a band that has found its voice in the vast universe of modern instrumental music. The album announcement arrives today with a new music video for the title track, “Sonido Cósmico,” by frequent collaborator Robert “Roboshobo” Schober, who also directed their "Thunderbird" music video from El Bueno Y El Malo. Stream the title track everywhere now!
