Helado Negro – Phasor (Vinyl)

The eighth full-length album in Helado Negros (aka Roberto Carlos Lange) catalogue follows his critically acclaimed 2021 album Far In.

Some of the seeds for Phasor were planted in 2019 on Langes 39th birthday after a 5-hour visit to Salvatore Matiranos SAL MAR machine at the University of Illinois. The machine is a complex synthesizer that creates music generatively with a vintage super computer brain and analog oscillators. It can create an infinite amount of possibilities in sound sequences. I was enthralled by it, Lange recalls.

That SAL MAR experience became the bedrock for Phasor. It taught Lange more about himself and became central to his creative process. It gave me special insight into what stimulates me, Lange explains. This pursuit of constant curiosity in process and outcome. The songs are the fruit, but I love whats under the dirt. The unseen magical process. I dont want everybody to see it because not everyone cares to see it. Some of us just want the fruit. I do. But I want to grow the fruit, too.

Phasor is Langes tightest collectiondeep, atmospheric, meticulously executed. Its aligned with 2019s This Is How You Smile which found him incorporating more upfront drums and bass and focused grooves. His 2021 album, Far In, focused on being in quarantinetalking to your mother through Zoom instead of across a room. Phasor, in turn, is a homage to going outside again. Its a returning-to-life record, remembering what the sun feels like and letting it warm your skin.

After Far In, Lange relocated to Asheville, North Carolina and the landscape around him was essential to Phasor – the crystalline mountains dotted with mica, wild blueberry bushes, and inky dirt surface constantly. He made the collection at his studio, across the hall from the studio of his wife, his frequent collaborator Kristi Sword, who created the album art drawings for Phasor.

Available on indie exclusive coke bottle green vinyl and standard black vinyl.

Tracklist:
01. LFO (Lupe Finds Oliveros)
02. I Just Want to Wake Up With You
03. Best For You and Me
04. Colores Del Mar
05. Echo Tricks Me
06. Out There
07. Flores
08. Wish You Could Be Here
09. Es Una Fantasia