Helado Negro Previews ‘Phasor’ LP With Stress Scrolling-Themed ‘LFO’
Helado Negro has announced his new album, Phasor, set to arrive on Feb. 9 via 4AD. The nine-song LP includes the new single “LFO” (an acronym for Lupe Finds Oliveros), which the musician shared on Tuesday.
The Spanish-language track is inspired by Lupe Lopez, a Mexican American woman who built amplifiers in the Fifties for Fender Guitar, and composer/sonic meditation practitioner Pauline Oliveros. The song addresses the stress that accompanies “endless scrolling,” according to a press release.
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“Lupe’s amps are sought after, her care and touch apparently harnessed a special sound from this design,” Roberto Carlos Lange aka Helado Negro said in a statement. “I fell in love with this story and this legacy and the mythology surrounding it. How craft touches us so deeply in the smallest ways. Deep care for the littlest things makes all the difference.”
The accompanying self-directed video for “LFO” finds the singer, who’s wearing a long grey wig and beard, floating around various psychedelic backdrops, which complements the trippy, upbeat vibe of the song.
Some of Phasor’s materialbegan to take root in 2019 after Lange visited Salvatore Matirano’s Sal-Mar Construction — an instrument that employs both analog and digital created using parts from an ILLIAC II supercomputer, which an artist can use to produce real-time composition — at University of Illinois.
“I was enthralled by it,” Lange said in a statement. He added: “It gave me special insight into what stimulates me. This pursuit of constant curiosity in process and outcome. The songs are the fruit, but I love what’s under the dirt. The unseen magical process. I don’t want everybody to see it because not everyone cares to see it. Some of us just want the fruit. I do. But I want to grow the fruit, too.”
Phasor Track List
1. “LFO”
2. “I Just Want to Wake Up With You”
3. “Best for You and Me”
4. “Colores Del Mar”
5. “Echo Tricks Me”
6. “Out There”
7. “Flores”
8. “Wish You Could Be Here”
9. “Es Una Fantasia”
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