Helado Negro: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Helado Negro | June 30, 2017 — The artist Helado Negro (Roberto Lange) made a very big impression on me when I first experienced him almost eight years ago. It was a sound I had never quite heard, and I was immediately drawn in; there were layers of synths, percussion that percolated rather than pulsed, vocals that epitomized the world ethereal and lyrics in Spanish and English that floated amidst the music like wisps of smoke. I caught his live show in Mexico City and in Austin, Texas and each time the sp