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Black Ice Cream
For The Village Voice’s Sound of the City blog, I spoke with Roberto Carlos Lange:
First there’s the owl; then there’s the enormous afro. The sight of the two in close proximity means you’ve likely entered Roberto Carlos Lange’s domain, whether it be through the front door of his Brooklyn home or by hearing one of the dozens of sound sculptures and animated films he’s completed in little more than a half-decade. I rang him one recent overcast morning to talk about Canta Lechuza, the album of pop songs he’s recorded as Helado Negro (or “Black Ice Cream” in Spanish), which is out today on Asthmatic Kitty. Helado Negro’s music is built upon a foundation of blips and bleeps over which Lange croons in Spanish. Each of the album’s tracks presents a compelling concentration of the rich, off-register world he’s constructed to date.
Read the entire article here.
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