Photo by Nathan Bajar.
Roberto Carlos Lange (Helado Negro) is gearing up to head out on an international tour behind his October 2021 seventh studio album Far In, starting this Friday, April 22 with a special Kite Symphony performance in Marfa, Texas. In anticipation of his journey, he's shared a one-off single titled "Ya No Estoy Aquí," his first new music since Far In's release.
The new song is characteristically airy and warm, inviting the listener to pull up a chair in Lange's welcoming sonic world and stay a while. Its lyrics — sung entirely in Spanish and inspired by the Mexican indie film from which the track takes its title — deal with an existential crisis of self-knowledge in the most relaxed way possible.
"'Ya No Estoy Aquí' is a song about loneliness and alienation," Lange writes. "It’s about being lost within yourself and not knowing who you are. Making this song was catharsis; it was a way to get this all out and feel the texture of new perspectives."
Watch the song's simple but poignant music video, directed by Neuderts, below.
