The duo moved to Europe in the 1990s and it was not long before their music began winning legions of fans in the US, Europe and Latin America.
Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero of the Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela before a concert at the McKittrick Hotel in New York.
Disenchanted by the rock scene in their native Mexico, Rodrigo y Gabriela moved to Europe in the late 1990s, settling in Dublin where they began busking and playing local pubs with their fusion of metal with Latin sounds. Their latest work is a more melodic album than past recordings, a sound they achieved by first writing songs complete with lyrics before stripping away the words in a bid to help their fans meditate exclusively to the guitars.
Sanchez said the album evokes the pair’s recent “shift in consciousness” – both in their mid-forties, the metalheads are now vegan and have turned their interests to Buddhism and spiritual evolution – that helped them realise “playing music is not something we just do because we like it.” Rodrigo y Gabriela are true to the daunting, nearly 20-minute masterpiece while adapting its surreal turns and atmospheric riffs to imbue their own textured sounds, complete with Quintero’s signature percussive knocks on the guitar.
The “Mettavolution” tour will take the duo – former romantic partners who maintain a friendship – everywhere from Los Angeles to London, along with nine dates in France.
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