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Rodrigo y Gabriela’s eagerly awaited follow-up to 2019’s GRAMMY® Award-winning Mettavolution and first full-length collection in four years, In Between Thoughts...A New World arrives as one of the duo’s most revelatory offerings yet – a spontaneously composed unified work primed to bring about the same expansion of consciousness that inspired its creation. Self-produced by Rodrigo y Gabriela at their studio in Ixtapa, Mexico, the album includes such singles as “The Eye That Catches The Dream,” “Egoland,” “True Nature” (recently added to Spotify US’s New Music Friday playlist), and the aforementioned “Descending To Nowhere.”
A #1 Most Added hit at Non-Com Radio outlets nationwide, “Descending To Nowhere” had its world premiere with an in-depth and illuminating “Origins” feature via Consequence and was quickly named by Paste as of one of “The 10 Best Songs of February 2023,” hailing it as “an irresistible groove that builds and ebbs as it showcases delicious electric licks and the promised orchestral swells.” An official music video, directed by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker/broadcaster Olallo Rubio, is streaming now on YouTube.
WATCH “DESCENDING TO NOWHERE” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
Rodrigo y Gabriela marked the arrival of In Between Thoughts...A New World with a very special live session for Seattle’s KEXP as well as electrifying live performances of “Descending To Nowhere” and “Egoland” on BBC Two’s venerable Later… with Jools Holland. In addition, “Descending To Nowhere | A Take Away Show,” a live performance video filmed earlier this year at an empty Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, is streaming now exclusively via La Blogothèque.
WATCH RODRIGO Y GABRIELA - FULL PERFORMANCE (LIVE ON KEXP)
WATCH “DESCENDING TO NOWHERE” (LIVE ON LATER… WITH JOOLS HOLLAND)
WATCH “EGOLAND” (LIVE ON LATER… WITH JOOLS HOLLAND)
WATCH “DESCENDING TO NOWHERE | A TAKE AWAY SHOW”
Widely hailed for their pyrotechnically thrilling live performances, Rodrigo y Gabriela currently are traveling on a major international touring schedule that began this spring with a sold-out show at London, England’s historic Roundhouse and was followed by North American headline dates at such renowned venues as Nashville, TN’s Ryman Auditorium, Brooklyn, NY’s Kings Theatre, and Montreal, QC’s Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier | Place des Arts. An eagerly awaited run of EU/UK dates gets underway September 25 at Hamburg, Germany’s Mojo Club and then travel the continent through mid-November. For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.rodgab.com/tour-dates.
Rodrigo y Gabriela are also set to kick off the 49th season of the venerable television music series, Austin City Limits, as the premiere performers on episode one. The band will be joined by an ensemble of over 30 musicians from the esteemed Austin Symphony Orchestra in an exhilarating hour; the unprecedented performance marks the first time ACL has collaborated with the world-class orchestra, one of Austin’s leading arts institutions.
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RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
IN BETWEEN THOUGHTS…A NEW WORLD
THE 2023 TOUR
SEPTEMBER
25 – Hamburg, DE – Mojo Club
26 – Berlin, DE – Passionskirche
29 – Milan, IT – Santeria Toscana 31
30 – Bologna, IT – Estragon
OCTOBER
2 – Rome, IT – Auditorium Parco della Musica
5 – Oslo, NO – Rockefeller Music Hall
7 – Stockholm, SE – Södra Teatern (SOLD OUT)
9 – Copenhagen, DK – Amager Bio
11 – Warsaw, PL – Palladium
16 – Dublin, IE – Vicar Street (SOLD OUT)
17 – Belfast, UK – Ulster Hall (SOLD OUT)
19 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
20 – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy
21 – Birmingham, UK – Birmingham Town Hall
23 – London, UK – The London Palladium
24 – Paris, France – Philharmonie de Paris
25 – Lille, France – L’Aéronef
27 – Lausanne, CH – Théâtre de Beaulieu
29 – Utrecht, NL – Tivoli Vredenburg
30 – Brussels, BE – Cirque Royal
31 – Antwerp, BE – De Roma (SOLD OUT)
NOVEMBER
2 – Nantes, FR – Stereolux (SOLD OUT)
3 – Bordeaux, FR – Le Rocher De Palmer
5 – Toulouse, FR – Le Bikini (SOLD OUT)
7 – Madrid, ES – Sala La Paqui
9 – Barcelona, ES – Razzmatazz 2
10 – Nimes, FR – Paloma
11 – Lyon, FR – Le Radiant
13 – Lisbon, PT – Cineteatro Capitólio
14 – Porto, PT – Casa de Música
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PRAISE FOR RODRIGO Y GABRIELA + IN BETWEEN THOUGHTS...A NEW WORLD
“Rodrigo y Gabriela have added new flourishes with every album...They’re both incredibly deft players, executing taut riffs with charisma...Their songs are filled with unexpected twists and detours, like the disco-flamenco rhythms on ‘The Eye That Catches The Dream’ and the grandiose orchestrations of ‘Descending To Nowhere.’”
– UNCUT (8/10)
“Rodrigo y Gabriela are boldly taking metal and rock to where no one has successfully taken it before.”
– CLASSIC ROCK
“Quintero’s propulsive rhythms power the music along, with the nimble-fingered Sanchez opting for electric guitar this time. ‘Broken Rage’ is their most raucous tune to date and others are peppered with funk and spaghetti western tones, while the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra bring concert hall
heft to this unique pair’s winning fusion style.”
– PROG
“This Mexican duo are virtuosic players... The playing is off the scale.”
– THE TIMES
“One doesn’t need to follow Rodrigo y Gabriela’s spiritual enlightenment to enjoy and embrace the music. However, that journey affected the duo from a musical standpoint, which finds them expanding their sound beyond their traditional “two acoustic guitars” setup. For most of this record, Rodrigo straps on an electric guitar, making for a marked change in tone. For her part, Gabriela continues to strum and pound away acoustically, anchoring the album in the classic Rodrigo y Gabriela sound.”
– POPMATTERS
“The perfect demonstration of their abilities…Rodrigo y Gabriela create a surging sonic display of cinematic goodness, using their guitars to represent rising and falling action. Each song feels like a mini-movie, containing stirring riffs, mesmeric backing strumming, and glorious, soaring strings that add extra tension to every piece…The duo harness the impressive ability to tell intricate stories without saying a word, and these songs are sure to conjure up rich images in listeners’ minds.”
– FAR OUT (4/5)
“Rodrigo y Gabriela like you’ve never heard them before… a thrilling mix
of spiraling guitars, strings, and percussive rhythms.”
– HOT PRESS (8/10)
“Joyous, thrilling, infectious…In Between Thoughts… A New World is by turns catchy, meditative, and energetic, multifarious influences (Hendrix and Santana among them) synthesized and blended by two masterful guitarists who show us just how much can be achieved on two cutaway acoustics, effects pedals close by.”
– THE ARTS DESK
“Rodrigo y Gabriela not only imagine a new world, they create a cinematic universe…A heady kaleidoscope of styles, with ethereal synths, distortion and breaking glass set against the perpetual engine of guitars takes you on a journey through an expansive dreamscape, by turns frantic, dark and lyrical.”
– NARC (4.5/5)
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RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
IN BETWEEN THOUGHTS…A NEW WORLD
(ATO Records)
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