There’s evidently an expatriate theme running through this month’s round-up. I’d guess that the two fraternal guitarists, Alejandro and Stephan Gutiérrez, are Mexican by origin [they are in fact Ecuadorian] and now based in Zurich, a city not known for its Latin American population (I would venture). The interplay of the two electric guitars creates a beautiful soundscape of a bygone Texas or Latin America: the wide open spaces that Harry Dean Stanton might have trudged, perhaps, to the accompaniment of Ry Cooder’s haunting guitar.
La Cumbia Moderna de Soledad “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” / Machuca Cumbia “Stayin’ Alive”