Helado Negro (aka Roberto Carlos Lange) releases his self-directed original music video for the single ‘Colores Del Mar’. The song is taken from his latest album, PHASOR, which is available now.
‘Colores Del Mar’, colours of the sea, is about disappearing on a walk or swim; there are the complexities of wanting to disappear, but to also be found, escaping by coming closer.
“’Colores Del Mar’ is, technically speaking, a song filled with hidden details,” Lange explains. “It was maybe one of the most fun I had mixing and shaping. I embedded a lot of pride in this song. I tried to peacock it, to show off but also hoped it was a magic trick, maybe real magic, like something would happen when it’s finished.”
‘Colores Del Mar’ – Official Video Directed By Roberto Carlos Lange
Praise for Phasor
“Roberto Carlos Lange eases back into the groove with a gorgeous, delicately rendered album. It’s got space-age synths, wistful romance, and the breeziest vibe in town.” – Pitchfork (Best New Music)
“Buoyant, big-hearted avant-pop… His most infectiously joyous songs to date.” – Uncut (9/10)
“One of the richest listening experiences I’ve had for years; Helado Negro’s PHASOR is a triumph.” – Loud & Quiet (9/10)
“Warm, hopeful chugs that fuse electronica, folk and chamber pop to harness his light, intoxicating vocals… rendered with a delicate, impressionistic touch.” – MOJO (4/5)
“Helado Negro’s heavy-lidded dream-pop is fine-tuned to the languid luxury of a ceaseless, carefree summer afternoon.” – DJ Mag
Lange’s eighth full-length Helado Negro album, Phasorishis tightest collection – deep, atmospheric, meticulously executed. It’s aligned with 2019’s This Is How You Smile which found him incorporating more upfront drums and bass and focused grooves. His 2021 album,Far In, focused on being in quarantine – talking to your mother through Zoom instead of across a room. Phasor,in turn, is a homage to going outside again. It’s a returning-to-life record, remembering what the sun feels like and letting it warm your skin.
Some of the seeds for Phasor were planted in 2019 on Lange’s 39th birthday after a 5-hour visit to Salvatore Matirano’s SAL MAR machine at the University of Illinois. A complex synthesizer that creates music generatively with a vintage super computer brain and analog oscillators, it can create an infinite amount of possibilities in sound sequences. The SAL MAR experience became the bedrock for Phasor. It taught Lange more about himself and became central to his creative process.
After Far In, Lange relocated to Asheville, North Carolina and the landscape around him was essential to Phasor—the crystalline mountains dotted with mica, wild blueberry bushes, and inky dirt surface constantly. He made the collection at his studio, across the hall from the studio of his wife, his frequent collaborator Kristi Sword, who created the album art drawings for Phasor.
New Album PHASOR Out Now
Check Out Short Film ‘Stories of PHASOR’
ABOUT HELADO NEGRO
Born in South Florida in 1980 to Ecuadorian immigrant parents, Roberto Carlos Lange stitches together memories, impressions, and atmospheres to make detailed dreamscapes as Helado Negro. He produces, engineers, and mixes his own songs, literally creating and populating his own sonic world. Lange has a degree in Computer Art and Animation from Savannah College of Art and Design and works extensively with video, sculpture, sound, and performance. He brings that toolbox to whatever he makes, and there’s a seeming effortlessness to the complexity. His songs are awash with vibrant melodies, sharp lyrical vignettes, and subtle, even whispered hooks. Since his 2009 debut, Awe Owe, across multiple projects and collaborations, through his breakthrough records, 2016’s Private Energy and 2019’s This Is How You Smile, and to 2021’s Far In, Lange’s work continues to move past easy genre assignments. Showcasing that interest in open-ended multi–disciplinarity, in 2022, he and his wife, the artist Kristi Sword, created the multi–disciplinary exhibition, Kite Symphony, with Ballroom Marfa—it was a collection of impressionistic installations, drawings and sound pieces that encourages listeners to “open their ears to the sky, the sound of cacti, and the feeling of the wind on their skin.” Lange has been awarded a United States Artist fellowship and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. He lives in Asheville, NC.
Phasor is available digitally and on CD, standard black vinyl and translucent vinyl (4AD Webstore + UK Indie exclusive). For more information head HERE
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