“Any press release which lists Silver Apples, Ornette Coleman and Scott Walker as influences has my ear immediately. On Helado Negro’s latest album, we are thrust into an altogether unique narrative which doubtlessly leaves behind any other album of today – according to the artist himself, “PHASOR is magic. It’s music about seeing your aura and living inside of it. It’s music as landscaping.” PHAS”
“Roberto Carlos Lange eases back into the groove with a gorgeous, delicately rendered album. It’s got space-age synths, wistful romance, and the breeziest vibe in town.”
“American sound artist Helado Negro (born Roberto Carlos Lange) is a songwriter, beatmaker and producer whose work quivers with the giddy joy of invention. His best work is 2019’s This Is How You Smile, an astonishing, inimitable collection of indie folk, horizontal dance and chillwave with a Latinx edge, wandering free of structure and genre. Endlessly slippery but always engaging, like hearing Ar”
“Helado Negro’s music straddles many different sounds, lands and feelings: it is bilingual and expressive, visual and auditory, autobiographical yet deeply fantastical. The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and composer Roberto Carlos Lange, Helado Negro fully broke through with 2019's This Is How You Smile, a hushed, hummed and proud love letter to his upbringing and his family. The son of Ecuad”
