Rodrigo y Gabriela will release their mind-expanding new album ‘In Between Thoughts… A New World’ on April 21st.
The new album is the group’s first in four years, and follows the Grammy-winning success of ‘Mettavolution’. Pushing their music further than ever, the duo aimed for spontaneous composition, thriving on its hallucinatory nature.
Out on April 21st, the record was self-produced by Rodrigo y Gabriela at their studio in Ixtapa, Mexico. The new record adds swathes of electronics to the mix, as exemplified by new single ‘Descending To Nowhere’.
Out now, the track is coupled to a colourful, surrealistic video that recalls the work of seminal – and controversial – director Jodorowsky.
“The video is based on a specific chapter/segment of a storyline written by Rodrigo y Gabriela where a character has a spiritual journey towards non-dualism,” says director Olallo Rubio. “So this video is just a small part of a larger story. They always imagined this world in animation, but we thought it’d be conceptually interesting to start in this dark, bleak, live action world and then enter the animated universe in colour.”
“I called artists Andy Butler (British) and Pogo (Mexican), with whom I worked before on a documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky (the Chilean multi-disciplinary artist) because I knew they’d understand the spiritual/surreal concept we were developing.”
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Ebru Yildiz