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 primarily based in Las Vegas, Maiah & Gabriel, step again into the highlight with the discharge of their new single, “Palíndromo.” The extraordinary and metaphorical track makes use of love as a refuge and a type of catharsis within the face of ache.
Gabriel wrote the monitor following the dying of one in every of his closest buddies, which preceded the passing of one other of his most trusted companions months later. The surprising 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 occasions—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 digicam for almost 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 non-public and artistic partnership, have constructed their profession from probably the most radical type of independence. With no label, a hard and fast crew, or aesthetic concessions, they’ve moved fluidly by movie, music, literature, and visible artwork, creating a definite language that now crystallizes into this conceptual undertaking, unfolding track by track. Underneath the motto Endlessly Indie, they doc each step of the method and share it with a neighborhood that witnesses the album’s start in actual time by Maiah’s YouTube channel.
The couple conceives every launch as a chapter inside a bigger work. Their music movies perform as interconnected scenes from a surrealist movie, the songs as intimate letters, and the documentaries accompanying every monitor as an natural train in artistic transparency.
Previous to “Palíndromo,” Maiah & Gabriel launched “Blanco & Negro,” the primary preview of this conceptual undertaking, which clearly established the duo’s aesthetic path. Accompanied by a Nouvelle Obscure–impressed music video, the monitor framed a brand new, extra mature, and targeted chapter of their inventive evolution.
Over the course of greater than 20 years, Maiah and Gabriel have developed tasks in movie, tv, literature, trend, and music, all the time from an impartial standpoint. From creating one of many first Spanish-language YouTube channels to seize the eye of the audiovisual trade to publishing extensively circulated literary works and producing award-winning audiovisual tasks, their journey is outlined by self-management, experimentation, and a continuing 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 strong and dependable fanbase, whereas conserving the door open for listeners looking for proposals that refuse to suit into predefined molds.
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