![]() Even when we were working with the orchestra and the arrangements, we were trying to be minimal, and let the Rod & Gab sound still be there.” The melodies and the structures are very clear. We don’t come from a jazz background where we want to overcomplicate things. “Our music can be experimental,” he notes, “but at the same time, the metal world we grew up in and all the rock we used to listen to when we were kids is really straightforward. While these new elements might seem like a wild leap from the twin nylon string sound we know and love, Rodrigo is quick to remind us that the fundamentals of their craft remain unchanged. ![]() When you leave all the expectations behind, and you just allow this awareness to be more present in every action, that’s pretty much what art is all about.” ![]() It kind of shifted my perception of reality. Rodrigo opened his mind to the nondualist way of thinking in 2020, and as he explains: “It’s basically an interconnection between the mind and this kind of matrix where all the information of whatever we perceive is. When you leave all the expectations behind, and you just allow this awareness to be more present in every action, that’s pretty much what art is all about Rodrigo SánchezĬonsequently, their desire to explore spontaneous composition came not from wanting to jam or noodle in the sense that many guitarists understand improvisation, but from wanting to allow a heightened sense of spiritual awareness – inspired by the slightly slippery philosophical concept of nondualism – to seep into their creative process and flow back out in song form. They’ve both always, as Rodrigo puts it, been “spiritual seekers.” The longstanding connection that has made Rodrigo y Gabriela one of the most captivating guitar partnerships of their generation has always been equally to do with their solid intuition for knowing how best to interact musically, and something intrinsically deeper than that. The word “suddenly” here is an important one, because another key point of departure from their typical process was that they approached the entire project with a spirit of spontaneity, conjuring the guitar parts for each of the album’s nine tracks through improvisation, before hitting the record button just moments later.
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