nudo — refined movements

teaser of the debut nudo album, alma blindada is out july 26 on halcyon veil. ‘alma blindada’ is about human violence as a force of nature. of the geographic and cultural entropy caused by people and their lives and their toil and their pursuit of money and power and joy. we came to this via heavily following border war and cartel violence news/corrido lore, the power vacuums, the cannibalization of heroes and villains and how who’s who morphs depending on what side you’re rooting for or what area you’re from. we knew we wanted full unironic corridos, we knew we wanted songs and not just world building exercises. alma blindada means like armored soul, or bulletproof spirit, and for us this is a phrase of reverence of the vast spectrum of potentiality within each person, to enrich or destroy, to tear down or build up. but ‘blindado’ is also maña slang for a ‘protected’ person. so it fit in with the feeling we were trying to convey. of finding the brutal poignancy of the beheading video or th