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CD |
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構成数 |
1 |
国内/輸入 |
輸入 |
パッケージ仕様 |
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発売日 |
2019年02月下旬 |
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規格品番 |
RVNGNL054 |
レーベル |
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SKU |
747742382512 |
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 00:40:45
Recording information: 411 and Heard City, Brooklyn, NY; AIR Serenbe, Atlanta, GA; CD Alley 2, Durham, NC; Island Universe Space. Photographer: Anna Grathe-Shive. Considering how Private Energy positively beamed thanks to radiant songs like "It's My Brown Skin" and "Young, Latin and Proud," the title of Helado Negro's sixth album could come as a surprise. However, on This Is How You Smile, Roberto Carlos Lange finds ways to sustain a sense of identity, family, and love when that energy runs low. For these strong yet tender songs, Lange drew inspiration from Jamaica Kincaid's short story "Girl," in which an immigrant mother gives her daughter instructions on how to survive and thrive in a world that wasn't made for her. Lange's flair for imagery is just as deft as any author's: He sets the album's mood with "Please Won't Please," sounding weary but resilient as he sings "Lifelong history shows that brown won't go/Brown just glows" over a scuffed beat and luminous synths. On "Imagining What to Do," he sings of "waiting for the glow again," portraying joy, pride, and strength as resources that may flicker, but never fade away entirely. On these songs and throughout This Is How You Smile, Lange couples the evocative music at which he's always excelled with gorgeously insightful lyrics. He's grown into a subtly powerful songwriter over the years, and he's at the peak of his powers on "Pais Nublado," where the way its conversation between Spanish-speaking elders and English-speaking children flows adds to its poignancy. On "Running," he deals with these complicated and inescapable relationships with grace, setting his musings to a piano melody that's as warm and effortless as a sunbeam. The album's discourse includes not just the character's in Lange's songs, but Helado Negro's entire body of work. Along with shades of Private Energy, This Is How You Smile evokes the shadowy intimacy of Canta Lechuza and, on "Seen My Aura," the distant, sunny childhood memories of Double Youth. As always, the ambient side of Helado Negro's music is just as eloquent as Lange's songwriting, and interludes such as "Sabana de Luz" and the festive sounds of "My Real Name Is for My Friends" add to the album's hazy, lived-in warmth. While his advice to "take care of people today" on "Two Lucky" is the closest he gets to giving his listeners directives like Kincaid's, the sustenance Lange offers with these songs is more delicate than Private Energy's anthems, but just as necessary. A winning combination of his long-standing and more recently developed gifts, This Is How You Smile is a culmination of Helado Negro's work and completely relevant to when it was released. ~ Heather Phares
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1.Please Won't Please
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2.Imagining What to Do
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3.Echo for Camperdown Curio
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4.Fantasma Vaga
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5.Pais Nublado
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6.Running
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7.Seen My Aura
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8.Sabana de Luz
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9.November 7
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10.Todo Lo Que Me Falta
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11.Two Lucky
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12.My Name Is for My Friends
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ブルックリンのエクスペリメンタル・レーベル、RVNGから届いたエラード・ネグロの新作。歌心を開花させた本作は、英語とスペイン語を交えたフワフワと宙を舞うようなエラードの歌唱がまるでデヴェンドラ・バンハートのようで、暖かさと異国情緒に溢れており、アトモスフェリックな中南米産ポップスといった感じで心地良さこのうえない。
bounce (C)青木正之タワーレコード (vol.434(2019年12月25日発行号)掲載)
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