catalogue

HELADO NEGRO

THIS IS HOW YOU SMILE (RVNG INTL.)

HELADO NEGRO - THIS IS HOW YOU SMILE 131517
format:
1 CD
release:
08.03.2019
label:
RVNG INTL.
item ID:
131517
barcode:
0747742382512
Helado Negro returns with This Is How You Smile, an album that freely flickers between clarity and obscurity, past and present geographies, bright and unhurried seasons.

Miami-born, New York-based artist Roberto Carlos Lange embraces a personal and universal exploration of aura - seen, felt, emitted - on his sixth album and second for RVNG Intl.

This Is How You Smile derives from Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl," a story she wrote in the form of a mother's sole, complicated but loving voice, speaking a "How to" litany of advice ranging from domestic chores to what a daughter, an immigrant and young woman of color, must do to protect herself in a world that was not designed by or for her.

This is how joy, or its visage, at turns comforts, constricts, or becomes armor.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. PLEASE WON'T PLEASE
  • 1.2. IMAGINING WHAT TO DO
  • 1.3. ECHO FOR CAMPERDOWN CURIO
  • 1.4. FANTASMA VAGA
  • 1.5. PAIS NUBLADO
  • 1.6. RUNNING
  • 1.7. SEEN MY AURA
  • 1.8. SABANA DE LUZ
  • 1.9. 43411
  • 1.10. TODO LO QUE ME FALTA
  • 1.11. TWO LUCKY
  • 1.12. MY NAME IS FOR MY FRIENDS