Rodrigo Y Gabriela Collaborate with Cuban Orchestra on New Album
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Friday, 28 October 2011 |
Written by Rob Sleigh
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Mexican acoustic rock duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela have announced the release of their fourth album ‘Area 52’, which is due out on 23rd January 2012. The album also features the talents of C.U.B.A. – a 13-piece orchestra from Havana – making it Rodrigo Y Gabriela’s first recorded collaboration with another group of artists.
On ‘Area 52’, Rodrigo Y Gabriela revisit nine of their earlier tracks and reinterpret them in spectacular fashion. Other guests on the album include sitar player Anoushka Shankar, ex-White Zombie drummer and current drummer for The Cult John Tempesta, jazz bassist Carles Benavent and Palestinian group Le Trio Joubran.
Speaking about the new album ‘Area 52’, Rodrigo Sanchez said: “We felt like Mulder and Scully approaching this - it was just a crazy idea, to see if a big Cuban band could play our music, a step in the dark. We knew it was out there - everyone has heard of Area 51, but we wanted to take it a little further.”
Earlier this year, Rodrigo Y Gabriela worked with Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer on the soundtrack to the film ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’. In 2010, the duo headlined Glastonbury Festival’s West Holts Stage for the second time in recent years. They have previously performed with a number of other artists including Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo and Zack De La Rocha from Rage Against The Machine.
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