Helado Negro returns with This Is How You Smile, an album that freely flickers between clarity and obscurity, past and present geographies, bright and unhurried seasons. Miami-born, New York-based artist Roberto Carlos Lange embraces a personal and universal exploration of aura – seen, felt, emitted – on his sixth album and second for RVNG Intl.
Helado Negro returns with This Is How You Smile, an album that freely flickers between clarity and obscurity, past and present geographies, bright and unhurried seasons. Miami-born, New York-based artist Roberto Carlos Lange embraces a personal and universal exploration of aura – seen, felt, emitted – on his sixth album and second for RVNG Intl.
January 24 street date. As Helado Negro & The Smile Band, Roberto Carlos Lange and his faithful music-making companions recreate the sounds of "This Is How You Smile" for "Live At KCRW", a recording of the ensemble's inspired performance on Jason Bentley's "Morning Becomes Eclectic". In this living offering, six songs from Helado Negro's most recent and widely embraced album are encouraged to a global sound stage from the intimacy of Lange's studio embrace, swaddled in the comfortable delight of accomplished musicianship and amiable collaboration. "Live At KCRW" serenades like a surreal sonnet in a morning dream, or an impromptu family singalong on a sunset road trip.