Hermanos Gutiérrez

“This is a love letter to South America,” says Alejandro Gutiérrez. “What we want to do with this record is to invite people to come on another journey with us, this time through the Andes and to create a curiosity for this culture and for this part of the world.” Over the course of a decade and 6 albums, Estevan and his brother Alejandro Gutiérrez have spun instrumental gold with their intricately intertwined guitars. The critically-acclaimed duo has commingled two continents worth of Latin sounds, surf music, western flourishes and melancholia to conjure a variety of landscapes and moods, from the romance of the desert to the vastness of space to the gauzy psychedelia of the mind. With Los Ojos Del Condor, Hermanos Gutiérrez take flight. Produced once again with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys at his Easy Eye Sound studios in Nashville, the Swiss-Ecuadorian siblings reach a new stage in their storytelling with 10 tracks that tightly bind them to their roots and introduce a clutch of new colors to their palette. The culture that shaped and continues to shape them is rooted not just in their mother’s native Ecuador and great-grandmother’s Peruvian heritage, but also the continent-spanning expanse of the Andean mountain range, the cerulean shores of the Pacific ebbing and flowing on the west coast, the sounds of Argentinean milonga and the Peruvian-Colombian melange of Cumbia and so much more.