This Is How You Smile

by Helado Negro

This Is How You Smile cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 March 2019
  • Label: RVNG Intl.
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:51
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Roberto Carlos Lange crafts a remarkably soothing, bilingual exploration of Latinx identity, familial history, and finding warmth in a hostile political climate. The arrangements are deeply comforting, blending delicate acoustic guitars, subtle synthesizers, and his whispered, melodic vocal delivery. It functions as a tender, beautifully atmospheric refuge of healing and cultural pride.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, dreamy, gentle, velvety, shimmering

Tracklist

  1. Please Won鈥檛 Please (3:03)
  2. Imagining What to Do (3:22)
  3. Echo for Camperdown Curio (1:09)
  4. Fantasma Vaga (4:23)
  5. Pais Nublado (4:32)
  6. Running (4:24)
  7. Seen My Aura (4:08)
  8. Sabana de luz (3:16)
  9. November 7 (2:22)
  10. Todo lo que me falta (4:35)
  11. Two Lucky (3:53)
  12. My Name Is for My Friends (1:38)

Credits

  • Helado Negro - primary artist
  • Michelle Grinser - lacquer cut by
  • Jason Trammell - drums
  • Matt Crum - guitar, bass
  • Andy Stack - steel drums [steel pan]
  • Oliver Hill - viola, violin
  • Nene Humphrey - voice
  • Xenia Rubinos - voice

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