{"title":"Helado Negro","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"rvngnl39e","title":"Helado Negro - Private Energy (Expanded)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCAT: RVNGNL39E\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Date:\u003cbr\u003e May 05, 2017 (digital)\u003cbr\u003e May 05, 2017 (physical)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploring the expressivity within intense states of being, Latinx identity, and pluralistic sensibilities, \u003cstrong\u003eHelado Negro's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/em\u003e is an engrossing statement achieved through lyrically personal and political avant pop music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/em\u003e carves a deep groove through the electronic music landscape, challenging to best Brooklyn-based artist \u003cstrong\u003eRoberto Carlos Lange’s\u003c\/strong\u003e previous accomplishments under the Helado Negro moniker. Half a decade and half a dozen albums later since Helado Negro’s 2009 debut album \u003cem\u003eAwe Owe\u003c\/em\u003e, Lange has cultivated an untraditional approach to songcraft that places his voice on an adventurous musical impulse without shying from familiar pop appreciation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe hymn of \u003cem\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/em\u003e initially sounded in 2014 while Lange absorbed accounts of the unjust death of \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e and felt a sharpened sense of vulnerability and anger as a minority. Lange’s creative drive veered toward catharsis - he sought to make music that would protect as a form of protest. The music of \u003cem\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/em\u003e was shaped to demarcate the artist’s pride of being, preserving and persevering, and celebrating, as Lange puts it, “my brownness, my latinidad.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the marginalized, the personal is always political. This truth is not exploited by Lange but used as a platform to examine fluidity in love and amongst various genders. Singing “porque soy una mujer, porque sigo siendo tu hombre”, (“because I’m a woman, because I’m still your man”), on \u003cem\u003ePrivate Energy’s\u003c\/em\u003e opening track “Tartamudo,” Lange subverts the expectations of the “latino man,” embracing instead a genderless expression of affection and sexuality. And yet the title “Tartamudo” means to stutter; Lange acknowledges the challenge of articulating one's progressive ideals and the personal demands of stewarding the Helado Negro project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Transmission Listen” is another exemplary selection from \u003cem\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/em\u003e, a song so effortlessly tuneful and seductive it sounds beamed in from the radio waves of an outer world. Or alternately, an inner world. Speckled and reverberant, it’s a love song as much as a purely joyful sonic experience. “Young, Latin, and Proud” and “It’s My Brown Skin” are prideful lyrically but complicated texturally, fusing restrained synthesizer voicings with sparse percussion and an interpolation of rhythmic tones. Here, as elsewhere, though, Lange’s distinct voice is the spine of the music’s ambulatory energy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough Helado Negro is essentially a solo project, the contributors to \u003cem\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/em\u003e were numerous, demonstrating Lange’s compassion for community and collaboration. In line, the lyrics to “It’s My Brown Skin” work as a central tenet of \u003cem\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/em\u003e and an intimate invitation to the varied cast involved and surrounding. Identity is celebrated as a possible personal shelter of sorts, yet complicated and humbly inclusive within abstract territories - i.e. the real and surreal worlds, inhabited by fellow humans and those that don’t identify as human alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“My brown me is the shade that’s just for me \/ I’m never not missing anything but me\", the song’s lyrics state, offering insight into the infinite possible variations for individuality and self-invention that animates the music and ethos of \u003cem\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelado Negro’s\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/em\u003e will be re-introduced to the public via RVNG Intl. in expanded form on May 5, 2017, appearing on vinyl for the first time alongside new CD and digital editions. 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Miami-born, New York-based artist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberto Carlos Lange \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eembraces a personal and universal exploration of aura – seen, felt, emitted – on his sixth album and second for RVNG Intl.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHelado Negro’s 2016 album \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, re-released as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePrivate Energy (Expanded)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e in 2017, is an urgent affirmation of self-love and solidarity driven by Lange’s personal response to sanctioned violence towards people of color. The widely embraced album furthered the artist’s visibility beyond a community of fans long established through a rigorous recording and touring career, with moments like “Young, Latin and Proud” and “It’s My Brown Skin” aligning with a larger social demand for basic rights amongst marginalized people and the universal imperative to love, be loved, and thrive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis Is How You Smile’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eopener “Please Won’t Please,” a call back to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePrivate Energy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, finds vitality in turning the privacy dial further inward. Setting the scene with a spare drumbeat that moves the music forward in a more maligned than militant march, Lange’s voice tenderly permits himself weariness: “We light ourselves on fire, just to see if anyone believes.” Something must be reserved, “will anyone rescue what’s left of me.” Diving into glimmering spirals, the remainder of the album takes leave of the broader “we” and mines intimate pairings - siblings, parent \/ child relationships, partnership, and old friends.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe story of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis Is How You Smile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e includes a jaunty, head-nodding walk with his brother on hot pavement to the community pool of his childhood neighborhood in Florida. Such days end with a welcome fatigue and chlorine blurred reveries in “Seen My Aura.” The confidence and security of youth, moves away from family, across years and regions, to a bleak winter of “Imagining What to Do,” and loving partners deciding to make each other smile, while waiting for the sun to return.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis Is How You Smile \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ederives 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemplating a parental voice, or its absence, becomes a question of where one may choose to return or depart. The lyrics of “Running,” seem to retrace the cyclical path of pop’s familiar obsessions, addressing the unrequited, fickle, or feared lover, “I feel you in my mind, all the time… you got me running, running…” Instead, the repetition of fleeing breaks with a languid laugh of recognition, that the lives of those who came before are within one’s own, even when we diverge, “I see you in my hands… just like you.” The song may also be read beyond seeing the humanity of self and parent, to the ever more visible global failures of patriarchal structures, and those moments when one sees their traces in self and those dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLange describes the album as the soundtrack of a person approaching you, slowly, for 40 minutes. In “Fantasma Vaga,” one of the first songs he wrote that set his approach for the album, a ghost wanders in from the low end, building a fuller form with each shaking step. Whirring, stops and starts of an eco espectral, may be musician trying to imitate, synthesize, the sound of a haunting, or a ghost itself trying to render the human voice. Lange often visualizes meeting strange beings, the odd encounters that occur in the creative process, a sound form of manipulation, in which who, or what is changing whom, becomes unclear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis Is How You Smile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e invites listeners on a walk through the changing colors of early mornings and evenings, writing, recording, or hearing a friend, a figure emerges, and there you are. 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Invocations of love, protection, and healing, tributes to maternal and ancestral journeying, and the universal appeal to “take care of one another” are flourished with the human quality of live vocal harmonization and a hybrid of acoustic and synthesized instrumentation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile some songs from \u003cem\u003eSmile\u003c\/em\u003e enjoy stylistic adaptation, as in the bossa nova swing of “Pais Nublado,” others return with new clarity, like the tenderly touched “Please Won’t Please.” “Running” reappears with a spirited pace, while “Two Lucky” stretches out through the expanded group’s rhythmic reach. “Imagining What You Do” and “Sabana de Luz” follow like seasonal transitions, moving from gentle consolation to sun-drenched optimism. 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