Helado Negro Announces West Coast Tour; Watch New Video For “Relatives”

HELADO NEGRO ANNOUNCES WEST COAST TOUR

IN SUPPORT OF

INVISIBLE LIFE

Next month, Helado Negro (aka Roberto Carlos Lange) will head out west in support of his third solo album, Invisible Life, out now on Asthmatic Kitty. Gentle in its delivery, but dense in production, reflecting Helado Negro’s refined love affair with synthesis, sampling and his own strengthening voice, the album features Helado Negro singing in English for the first time, as well as Spanish. Watch the new video for album track“Relatives.” It features Jon Philpot of Bear in Heaven,who sings on the track, and was directed by Zircon Prince with visual contributions by J. Tapia. As Roberto describes it, “the video uses a lot of hard cuts with video generated by synthesizers and some from travels, late nights and early mornings. Jon from Bear in Heaven created a really amazing counterbalance to the song that acts like some residue of things in my brain – like a resonant echo that keeps repeating itself to me as I keep following.”

WATCH HELADO NEGRO’S “RELATIVES” FEAT. JON PHILPOT VIDEO –

https://vimeo.com/64192496

WATCH & LISTEN:

“Junes” stream – http://snd.sc/WS9o7Q

“Dance Ghost” video – http://vimeo.com/57236809

“Dance Ghost” mp3 – http://snd.sc/WR5fBc

Latino USA on NPR interview – http://bit.ly/Y2xEBF

HELADO NEGRO TOUR DATES

Wed. April 24 – Glasgow, UK @ The Arches w/ Matthew E. White

Thu. April 25 – Manchester, UK @ Sound Control w/ Matthew E. White

Fri. April 26 -London, UK @ Queen Elizabeth Hall @ Southbank Centre w/ Matthew E. White

Thu. May 2 — San Diego, CA @ Casbah w/ Javelin

Fri. May 3 — Los Angeles, CA @ Natural History Museum of Los Angeles w/ Javelin

Sat. May 4 — San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop w/ Javelin

Sun. May 6 — Sacramento, CA @ Blue Lamp

Tue. May 7 — Eugene, OR @ Cozmic Pizza w/ Javelin

Wed. May 8 — Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios w/ Javelin

Thu. May 9 — Seattle, WA @ Barboza w/ Javelin

Fri. May 10 — Vancouver, BC @ Electric Owl w/ Javelin

Mon. May 13 — New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom w/ Matthew E. White

Sat. June 1 — Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle w/ Ariel Pink, inc., Night Moves

Sat. July 27 — Masonville, QC @ Owl’s Head Festival

” . . . in every style Roberto Carlos Lange develops, a sultry, dreamy temperament remains apparent, from the shimmying cadences and simmered arrangements to his just-woken-up voice. Invisible Life is the clearest and most dynamic Helado Negro record to date.”

— Pitchfork

“Roberto Carlos Lange pushes deeper than ever into hazy electronic textures and languid, machine-made tropical grooves, and his gentle, almost somnambulant croon rests atop this confection like a delicate glaze on a souffle.” — Chicago Reader

“His latest album, Invisible Life, offers a kind of spongy funk concrète in the tradition of Brian Eno and David Byrne’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, with tropical rhythms and sublimated reggae bubbling underneath drum-machine crunch and hazy layers of synthesizer. Alternating between English and Spanish, his own voice is his strongest instrument, doubled across the octaves in a way that suggests the interplay of light and shadow.” — SPIN

Helado Negro online:

http://www.heladonegro.com/

http://asthmatickitty.com/artists/helado-negro/

http://heladonegro.bandcamp.com/

http://www.facebook.com/HeladoNegro

http://soundcloud.com/heladonegro

https://twitter.com/heladonegro

http://pitchperfectpr.com/a_hn.html

http://robertolange.com/