Helado Negro. Photo: Sadie Culberson
Off the 405: Helado Negro
GETTY CENTER
Museum Courtyard
This is a past event
DJ set by Julianna Barwick at 6 p.m.
Performance at 7:30 p.m.
Born in South Florida to Ecuadorian immigrant parents, the world-building multi-instrumentalist Roberto Carlos Lange stitches together memories, impressions, and atmospheres to make detailed dreamscapes as Helado Negro.
He produces, engineers, and mixes his own songs, creating and populating his own sonic world. Lange has a degree in Computer Art and Animation from Savannah College of Art and Design and works extensively with video, sculpture, sound, and performance. He brings that toolbox to whatever he makes, and there's a seeming effortlessness to the complexity. His songs are awash with vibrant melodies, sharp lyrical vignettes, and subtle, even whispered hooks.
Following his breakthrough records, 2016's Private Energy and 2019's This Is How You Smile, Lange's just-released ninth studio record, Phasor, picks up on an integral interest in the natural world—an obsession previously explored through multidisciplinary projects including a recent collaborative exhibition with his wife, artist Kristi Sword, at Ballroom Marfa in Texas. Deep, atmospheric, and meticulously executed, it's Lange's tightest collection to date.