Haledo Negro. Photo by Sabie Culberson
Roberto Carlos Lange has announced a new Helado Negro album. Phasor, the follow-up to 2021’s excellent Far In, is due out February 9 via 4AD. Before then, you can hear the project’s lead single, “LFO (Lupe Finds Oliveros).”
The new song was inspired by an imagined meeting between deep-listening advocate and composer Pauline Oliveros and Lupe Lopez, a Mexican-American woman who built guitar amplifiers for Fender in the ’50s. “Lupe’s amps are sought after, her care and touch apparently harnessed a special sound from this design,” Lange says in a press statement. “I fell in love with this story and this legacy and the mythology surrounding it. How craft touches us so deeply in the smallest ways. Deep care for the littlest things makes all the difference.”
Lange also directs the song’s music video and stars as a Rip Van Winkle’d version of himself traversing a green screen universe. Watch that below, followed by Phasor‘s cover art and tracklisting along with Helado Negro’s extensive world tour, beginning at the end of October.
Phasor cover art and tracklist
1. LFO
2. I Just Want to Wake Up With You
3. Best For You and Me
4. Colores Del Mar
5. Echo Tricks Me
6. Out There
7. Flores
8. Wish You Could Be Here
9. Es Una Fantasia
Helado Negro 2023/2024 tour dates
October 29 - Vigo, Spain - Radar Estudios
October 30 - Madrid, Spain - Sala Mon Live
October 31 - Sevilla, Spain - Sala X
November 1 - Málaga, Spain - Sala París 15
November 2 - Alicante, Spain - Fundación Mediterráneo - Aula de Alicante
November 3 - Valencia, Spain - La Rambleta
November 4 - Barcelona, Spain - WOLF
November 5 - Zaragoza, Spain - Espacio Las Armas
November 8 - Paris, France - Trabendo (Pitchfork Music Festival Paris)
November 9 - London, United Kingdom - Hackney Church (Pitchfork Music Festival London)
November 10 - Segrate, Italy - Circolo Magnolia
February 9 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
February 10 - Orlando, FL - The Social
February 12 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
February 13 - Austin, TX - Empire Control Room & Garage
February 14 - Fort Worth, TX - Tulips FTW
February 17 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
February 18 - Pioneertown, CA - Pappy and Harriet’s
February 19 - San Diego, CA - Music Box
February 21 - Los Angeles, CA - The Belasco
February 22 - San Francisco, CA - August Hall
February 23 - Sacramento, CA - TBA
February 25 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre
February 26 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall
February 29 - Tallinn, Estonia - Paavli Kultuurivabrik
March 2 - Vilnius, Lithuania - Kablys
March 3 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen
March 5 - Berlin, Germany - Hole44
March 6 - Warsaw, Poland - Jassmine
March 9 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Kulturfabrik Krefeld eV
March 12 - Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
March 14 - Utrecht, Netherlands - Ekko
April 21 - Asheville, NC - Eulogy
April 22 - Chapel Hill, NC - Cats Cradle
April 23 - Washington, DC - The Atlantis
April 24 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
April 26 - Boston, MA - TBA
April 28 - Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
April 30 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
May 1 - Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club
May 3 - Denver, CO - Globe Hall
May 4 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Urban Lounge
