Hermanos Gutiérrez – Canto Andino
Hermanos Gutiérrez have announced their seventh album, Los Ojos Del Cóndor, due September 25 on Easy Eye Sound, and “Canto Andino” is its opening track and lead single. The Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez have been building their particular guitar language across six albums and a decade, blending Latin rhythms, surf, and a certain cinematic stillness into something that consistently sounds like them and no one else. Los Ojos Del Cóndor, produced again by Dan Auerbach at his Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, turns that sound back toward their family’s roots: their mother’s native Ecuador, their great-grandmother’s Peruvian heritage, Argentinean milonga, and Peruvian-Colombian cumbia.
“Canto Andino” sets the tone carefully. An acoustic guitar figure opens it before a drifting organ line enters and lets the track breathe. The melody, Alejandro explains, was written to mirror Andean weather: bright and open in the chorus, then pulling back toward darker, lower slide tones as the atmosphere shifts. “You’ve got sunshine and then all of a sudden, it’s so cloudy and looks like it might rain or even snow”, he says. The two guitars at work here are key: Estevan plays throughout on the nylon guitar his father gave him when he was eight, while Alejandro introduces the charango, a small South American stringed instrument that appears here for the first time in their catalogue. The difference in register and timbre between the two is audible and deliberate.
The album’s title refers to the condor of the Ecuadorian flag, a bird associated with height and perspective. The brothers named the record after their title track once they felt it captured the sensation of looking down across the Andes. That sense of elevation is right there in “Canto Andino”: the track doesn’t rush, doesn’t assert itself, just opens a landscape and invites you into it.
Upcoming dates:
North America
- Jun. 19 / Gilford, NH / Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion (with Jack Johnson)
- Jun. 20 / Mansfield, MA / Xfinity Center (with Jack Johnson)
- Jun. 21 / Holmdel, NJ / PNC Bank Arts Center (with Jack Johnson)
- Jun. 24 / Saratoga Springs, NY / Albany Med Health System at SPAC (with Jack Johnson)
- Jun. 26 / Columbia, MD / Merriweather Post Pavilion (with Jack Johnson)
- Jun. 27 / Philadelphia, PA / Mann Center for the Performing Arts (with Jack Johnson)
- Jun. 28 / Wantagh, NY / Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater (with Jack Johnson)
- Jun. 30 / Toronto, ON / RBC Amphitheatre (with Jack Johnson)
- Jul. 1 / Canandaigua, NY / Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands PAC (with Jack Johnson)
- Jul. 3 / Burgettstown, PA / The Pavilion at Star Lake (with Jack Johnson)
- Jul. 4 / Noblesville, IN / Ruoff Music Center (with Jack Johnson)
- Jul. 5 / Grand Rapids, MI / Acrisure Amphitheater (with Jack Johnson)
- Jul. 7 / Cuyahoga Falls, OH / Blossom Music Center (with Jack Johnson)
- Jul. 8 / Cincinnati, OH / Riverbend Music Center (with Jack Johnson)
- Jul. 10 / Detroit, MI / Pine Knob Music Theatre (with Jack Johnson)
- Jul. 11 / Chicago, IL / Huntington Bank Pavilion (with Jack Johnson)
- Jul. 12 / Shakopee, MN / Mystic Lake Amphitheater (with Jack Johnson)
- Sep. 24 / Vancouver, BC / Queen Elizabeth Theatre
- Sep. 26 / George, WA / The Gorge Amphitheatre (with Jack Johnson)
- Sep. 27 / Woodinville, WA / Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery (with Jack Johnson)
- Sep. 29 / Portland, OR / Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
- Oct. 2-3 / Denver, CO / Mission Ballroom
- Oct. 5 / Albuquerque, NM / Popejoy Hall
- Oct. 6 / Phoenix, AZ / Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre (with Jack Johnson)
- Oct. 9 / Chula Vista, CA / North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre (with Jack Johnson)
- Oct. 10 / Los Angeles, CA / Hollywood Bowl (with Jack Johnson)
- Oct. 11 / Los Angeles, CA / Hollywood Bowl (with Jack Johnson)
- Oct. 18 / Austin, TX / Moody Amphitheater
- Oct. 20 / Dallas, TX / South Side Ballroom
- Oct. 21 / Houston, TX / White Oak Music Hall
Europe
- Aug. 13 / Paredes de Coura, PT / Vodafone Paredes de Coura
- Aug. 15 / Winterthur, CH / Winterthurer Musikfestwochen
- Aug. 19 / Linz, AT / Frischluft Open Air
- Aug. 20 / Prague, CZ / Lucerna Great Hall
- Aug. 22 / Hamburg, DE / Stadtpark Open Air
- Aug. 23 / Biddinghuizen, NL / Lowlands Festival
- Aug. 25 / Porto, PT / Teatro Sá da Bandeira
- Aug. 26 / Lisbon, PT / Coliseu de Lisboa
- Aug. 29 / Madrid, ES / Sala La Riviera
- Aug. 30-31 / Barcelona, ES / Gran Teatre del Liceu
- Sep. 2 / Rome, IT / Cavea Auditorium Parco della Musica
- Sep. 3 / Milan, IT / Teatro Arcimboldi
- Nov. 13 / Gdańsk, PL / Inside Seaside Festival
- Nov. 15 / Berlin, DE / Tempodrom
- Nov. 17 / Frankfurt, DE / Jahrhunderthalle
- Nov. 18 / Ludwigshafen, DE / Feierabendhaus der BASF
- Nov. 20 / Cologne, DE / Palladium
- Nov. 21 / Brussels, BE / La Madeleine
- Nov. 22 / Antwerp, BE / De Roma
- Nov. 24 / Rouen, FR / Le 106
- Nov. 25 / Rennes, FR / MEM
- Nov. 26 / La Rochelle, FR / La Sirène
- Nov. 29 / Paris, FR / Zénith Paris, La Villette
- Dec. 1 / London, UK / Eventim Apollo
- Dec. 2 / Manchester, UK / Albert Hall
- Dec. 13-14 / Amsterdam, NL / Paradiso
- Dec. 18 / Geneva, CH / Antigel Festival
- Dec. 20-21 / Zurich, CH / Kaufleuten
