Album
This Is How You Smile
2019 · Pop, Folk, World, & Country
7 collectors on Gatefold own this
This Is How You Smile is an Alt/Indie album by Helado Negro, originally released in 2019. On Gatefold: 6 pressings tracked, owned by 7 collectors.
About
In 2016’s <i>Private Energy</i>, Roberto Carlos Lange, a.k.a. Helado Negro, celebrated his identity while highlighting themes like racially targeted enforcement and gender fluidity. The Brooklyn-based singer-producer’s follow-up, <i>This Is How You Smile</i>, allows him to wind down and find his center. <i>Smile</i> is by turns more self-reflective, a vivid reverie of personal memories bedded in delicate acoustic strums and atmospheric dreamscapes. Lange's articulate, compassionate voice softens the album's dense arrangements (which are interspersed with field recordings and ambient interludes). On “País Nublado,” a balmy bossa nova groove ambles against Lange’s pithy haikus. Serene piano strokes lead the way over his soulful, whispered baritone on both “Running” and “Please Won’t Please.” “Seen My Aura” is more effervescent by comparison, but just as chill—a lysergic funk jam where Lange’s naturalistobservations take flight.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Please Won't Please3:03
- A2Imagining What To Do3:22
- A3Echo For Camperdown Curio1:09
- A4Fantasma Vaga4:23
- A5Pais Nublado4:32
- A6Running4:24
Side B
- B1Seen My Aura4:08
- B2Sabana De Luz3:16
- B3November 72:22
- B4Todo Lo Que Me Falta4:35
- B5Two Lucky3:53
- B6My Name Is For My Friends1:38
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Indie Rock
- dreamy
- tender
- bohemian
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- AdronPERFORMER , VOICE
- Andy StackPERFORMER , STEEL DRUMS STEEL DRUMS
- Angela MorrisPERFORMER , SAXOPHONE SAXOPHONE
- Aquiles NavarroPERFORMER , TRUMPET TRUMPET
- Bryan CollinsPERFORMER , SYNTHESIZER SYNTHESIZER
- Chris DevoePERFORMER , SYNTHESIZER SYNTHESIZER
- Ela MinusPERFORMER , VOICE
- Jason AjemianBASS PERFORMER , BASS
- Jason NazaryDRUMS PERFORMER , DRUMS
- Jason TrammellDRUMS PERFORMER , DRUMS
- Jay WynneDRUMS PERFORMER , DRUMS
- Jenn WasnerGUITAR PERFORMER , GUITAR
- Joe WesterlundDRUMS
- Keith ReynaudGUITAR PERFORMER , GUITAR
- Kristi SwordWHISTLING, BODY PERCUSSION , OTHER WHISTLING, BODY PERCUSSION , SOUNDS
- Logan CoaleBASS PERFORMER , BASS
- Luis Alfredo Del VallePERFORMER , VOICE
- Matt CrumGUITAR GUITAR, BASS PERFORMER , GUITAR
7 collectors on Gatefold own this · 6 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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