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Album of the Week #4
Hermanos Gutiérrez: El Bueno y el Malo (2022)

This week I stumbled across the Gutiérrez Brothers on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert (1) and was entranced.

That 2 people with a only guitar each could make such an engrossing sound is amazing.  I’ve since listened to "El Bueno y el Malo" (“The Good And The Bad”) 5 times. Each listen I am transported to a meandering cinematic world. I literally feel like I’m in a movie. I imagine make believe scenes from Paris, Texas (1984) or Dead Man (1995) or some other amalgamation from the cinematic zeitgeist of Mexico and the American west.

When it comes to movies often a mood sticks with me more than a plot. Directors like David Lynch (Twin Peaks), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen) as well as those I referred to above (Jim Jarmusch & Wim Wenders) manage to burn their universes into my mind. This album feels like a soundtrack that setting the tone to a movie I love. A movie that doesn't exist.

curiosity maxi.

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