Helado Negro Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/helado-negro/ New and independent music Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:26:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Helado Negro Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/helado-negro/ 32 32 88787050 Joseph Decosimo – Ida Red https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/06/30/joseph-decosimo-ida-red/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:26:57 +0000 https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/?p=45683 Fiery Gizzard, the new full-length from Durham, North Carolina songwriter and musician Joseph Decosimo coming later this summer on Dear Life Records, is not quite what it appears on the surface. Ostensibly the album is a solo record of traditional folk songs, but in practice it is anything but solo and goes far beyond retreading old ground. With Decosimo joined by fiddler Stephanie Coleman (Nora Brown), guitarist Jay Hammond, synth builder and multi-instrumentalist Matthew O’Connell, bassist and producer Andy Stack (Helado […]

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]]> Fiery Gizzard, the new full-length from Durham, North Carolina songwriter and musician Joseph Decosimo coming later this summer on Dear Life Records, is not quite what it appears on the surface. Ostensibly the album is a solo record of traditional folk songs, but in practice it is anything but solo and goes far beyond retreading old ground. With Decosimo joined by fiddler Stephanie Coleman (Nora Brown), guitarist Jay Hammond, synth builder and multi-instrumentalist Matthew O’Connell, bassist and producer Andy Stack (Helado Negro, Wye Oak), horn player Kelly Pratt (Beirut, David Byrne), plus Libby Rodenbough (Mipso and Fust), Joseph O’Connell (Elephant Micah) and trad/experimental artist Cleek Schrey, the album draws on the invention and curiousity intrinsic to community to push its old-time inspiration in new directions. A style which neither regurgitates or moves away from traditional folk sensibilities but embraces the spirit which has always marked its best practitioners. Joseph Decosimo is not here to rehash or reinvent, he’s here to continue an old tradition.

Lead single and album opener ‘Ida Red’ is the perfect introduction to the style. Taking inspiration from the likes of Linefork, KY banjo player and singer Morgan Sexton, who took classic Appalachian folk music and made it his own with layers of improvisation and quirk, the song finds Joseph Decosimo and co. carrying this torch forward. A blurring of the line between careful craft and inquisitive malleablity, entirely true to the musical history from which is descends yet never restrained by its conventions.

Fiery Gizzard will be released on the 15th August via Dear Life Records and you can pre-order it now from the Joseph Decosimo Bandcamp page.

Vinyl artwork for Fiery Gizzard by Joseph Decosimo

Photo by Robert Birnbach

 

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]]> 45683 OMBRE – Believe You Me https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2012/09/06/ombre-believe-you-me/ Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:20:21 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=528 OMBRE is a collaboration between Asthmatic Kitty label-mates Julianna Barwick and Helado Negro (Roberto Carlos Lange’s Latin electro-folk project). The pair has recently released an album, Believe You Me, which sees Barwick’s otherworldly voice delicately intertwined with Lange’s instrumentation (and occasional vocals) to dreamy effect. The album is every bit as ethereal as the pairing of OMBRE’s members suggests, with vocals that somnolently billow around the fine guitars and horns. It may be too meditative for some, and indeed isn’t […]

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]]> OMBRE is a collaboration between Asthmatic Kitty label-mates Julianna Barwick and Helado Negro (Roberto Carlos Lange’s Latin electro-folk project). The pair has recently released an album, Believe You Me, which sees Barwick’s otherworldly voice delicately intertwined with Lange’s instrumentation (and occasional vocals) to dreamy effect. The album is every bit as ethereal as the pairing of OMBRE’s members suggests, with vocals that somnolently billow around the fine guitars and horns. It may be too meditative for some, and indeed isn’t suited to all occasions (peace, quiet, and headphones or good speakers are a must), but the album really represents a triumph of the integration and synthesis of two talented and imaginative artists. Have a listen to stand-out track, Cara Falsa (featured here on Wake The Deaf back in our July Mix), in the player below and then purchase Believe You Me from the band’s Bandcamp page or from Asthmatic Kitty.

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