Helado Negro – This Is How You Smile

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Release Date:03/08/2019;Notes:Helado Negro returns with This Is How You Smile, an album that freely flickers between clarity and obscurity, past and present geographies, bright and unhurried seasons. Miami-born, New York-based artist Roberto Carlos Lange embraces a personal and universal exploration of aura – seen, felt, emitted – on his sixth album and second for RVNG Intl. This Is How You Smile derives from Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl,” a story she wrote in the form of a mother’s sole, complicated, but loving voice, speaking a “How to” litany of advice ranging from domestic chores to what a daughter, an immigrant and young woman of color, must do to protect herself in a world that was not designed by or for her. This is how joy, or it’s visage, at turns comforts, constricts, or becomes armor.;Track List:1. Please Won’t Please;2. Imagining What to Do;3. Echo for Camperdown Curio;4. Fantasma Vaga;5. Pais Nublado;6. Running;7. Seen My Aura;8. Sabana de Luz;9. 43411;10. Todo Lo Que Me Falta;11. Two Lucky;12. My Name Is for My Friends;13. Please Won’t Please (Official Video)