With a synth-pop and new wave sensibility that echoes European teams like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Pet Store Boys, and Mecano, the Venezuelan duo based mostly in Las Vegas, Maiah & Gabriel, step again into the highlight with the discharge of their new single, “Palíndromo.” The extreme and metaphorical track makes use of love as a refuge and a type of catharsis within the face of ache.
Gabriel wrote the observe following the loss of life of considered one of his closest associates, which preceded the passing of one other of his most trusted companions months later. The sudden loss left the artist with out solutions and plunged him into deep sorrow.
The track is accompanied by an equally dramatic, cinematic-leaning music video, that includes subtitles that learn each forwards and backwards as a metaphor for the only’s title, together with a static shot that captures the vocalist Maiah’s expressions of ache in close-up.
“For the video, Maiah grew to become obsessive about turning the track right into a one-take monologue, stripped of artifice, like a scene from a movie. In these effect-driven instances—the place cinematic has turn out to be only a immediate in your telephone and a template to fill inexperienced screens—standing in entrance of a digital camera for practically 4 minutes to sing a track that makes you are feeling one thing isn’t precisely unique, however it’s profoundly nostalgic,” explains Gabriel.
The duo, who share greater than twenty years of private and artistic partnership, have constructed their profession from probably the most radical type of independence. And not using a label, a set workforce, or aesthetic concessions, they’ve moved fluidly by way of movie, music, literature, and visible artwork, creating a definite language that now crystallizes into this conceptual venture, unfolding track by track. Below the motto Eternally Indie, they doc each step of the method and share it with a neighborhood that witnesses the album’s start in actual time by way of Maiah’s YouTube channel.
The couple conceives every launch as a chapter inside a bigger work. Their music movies operate as interconnected scenes from a surrealist movie, the songs as intimate letters, and the documentaries accompanying every observe as an natural train in inventive transparency.
Previous to “Palíndromo,” Maiah & Gabriel launched “Blanco & Negro,” the primary preview of this conceptual venture, which clearly established the duo’s aesthetic course. Accompanied by a Nouvelle Imprecise–impressed music video, the observe framed a brand new, extra mature, and centered chapter of their inventive evolution.
Over the course of greater than twenty years, Maiah and Gabriel have developed tasks in movie, tv, literature, style, and music, all the time from an unbiased standpoint. From creating one of many first Spanish-language YouTube channels to seize the eye of the audiovisual business to publishing broadly circulated literary works and producing award-winning audiovisual tasks, their journey is outlined by self-management, experimentation, and a relentless seek for identification.
With this new single, Maiah & Gabriel deepen a story constructed from their most profound feelings, the identical ones which have helped them domesticate a stable and constant fanbase, whereas holding the door open for listeners searching for proposals that refuse to suit into predefined molds.
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